Stage Fright is a 1989 independent feature film produced and directed by Brad Mays and written by Stanley Keyes.

Playwright Stanley Keyes, who had once been associated with Baltimore's Corner Theatre ETC and was now living and working in New York City, approached his friend and fellow Baltimore transplant, director Brad Mays, about working on a film together.

The two threw around a number of ideas, finally settling in 1986 on the notion of co-writing a farcical script based on their mutual experiences at Corner Theatre, during the late sixties and early seventies.

Keyes and Mays made a list of the various artists from their past who might be successfully fictionalized into a story centered on a new play that is experiencing the sort of difficulties they had both experienced back in their Corner Theatre days.

[2][3] The story revolves around notorious playwright Grayson Osterman (Rick Hammontree), who after a long hiatus, has returned with a shocking new play, Malaise, based a somewhat degenerate reading of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.The company's director, Broderick Kands (Greg McClure), is based on the director of the film itself, who makes a brief appearance in the opening scene.