Grace McPhillips

Grace McPhillips was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama and after obtaining a degree in Music Theater, realized she loved putting together the show and was bored to death performing night after night. Opting for a more diverse market she continues her studies in Chicago, and relished filmmaking for its creative collaboration and for its tangible and long lasting art form. The Other One is her debut feature film as an Executive Producer and lead Actress.

She has served as an elected council member of SAG/AFTRA and founded the non-profit, The Chicago Acting in Film Meetup for working actors in the film industry. As an accomplished commercial actress in Chicago, Grace has worked behind the microphone, voicing several nationwide advertising campaigns, in front of the camera she has starred in several independent films, and on stage she worked in Chicago's storefront theatres and has danced with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Founding Sterling Rock Productions in 2009, McPhillips has produced short films Fitting and The Miss, currently being screened at film festivals internationally. Her short film Fitting, which she produced, co-wrote, and starred in, won Best Comedy, Best Directing, and Best Comedic Actress (Grace) for Cinema St. Louis, garnering the award-winning selection in the St. Louis International Film Festival. Grace was also honored as an Emerging Female in Focus by Women in Film in March of 2012, for her work in Fitting. In addition the prequel for the film The Other One entitled Eclipse, McPhillips created and is leading the charge for the film's social action campaign Declare Non-Violence Videos.

Sterling Rock Productions is also developing 2 television shows; The Cost of History and Prescription Home Performance, a mini series based on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and a feature about the life works of Zelda Fitzgerald seen through modern eyes, entitled Beautiful Little Fools.

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