Philip Levens and Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens: A Creative Life in Naples, Florida
For Philip Levens and his wife, Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens, the professional map now includes a Gulf Coast city that rarely turns up in Hollywood biographies. In 2026 they bought a home in Naples, Florida, ending a California stretch of more than twenty years. Their own sites already name both Los Angeles and Naples. Older sketches that leave them on the West Coast alone are behind the facts. They have been clear that the point was not to stop working. It was to keep writing, producing, and teaching from a place that fit the quieter daily life they wanted. How Naples won them over Fox Business told the story in a feature published on July 20, 2026. Philip had landed in Tampa and pointed the car south, passing through St. Petersburg and Sarasota. For a stretch he wondered whether he had chosen the wrong coast — whether this part of Florida was going to be right for him and Carolyn at all. Downtown Naples changed his mind. He turned toward the Gulf, got out, and walked to the beach. ...