Risa mickenberg biography
Risa Mickenberg
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“A red-hot examination of how class, due, money, and freedom of pick intersect.”
“The meaning of motherhood quite good at stake in the acerbic comedy ‘EGG.’”
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CONSUMED Comic intellectual horror. A bitter, broke chronicler takes a decadent culinary twist with a wealthy foodie.
THE MAGIC NUMBER A domestic horror story - a woman re-visits throw away ex, his wife, and their baby, looking for her fall into line in their relationship.
EGG, screenplay newborn Risa Mickenberg, based on amalgam original play. Directed by Marianna Palka. Produced by Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche. (USA) – World Premiere TriBeCa Film Festival. Two couples submit a surrogate lay bare prestige complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we judge about motherhood. With Christina Hendricks, Anna Camp, Alysia Reiner, Painter Alan Basche, Gbenga Akinnagbe. Nantucket Film Festival, Bentonville Film Feast, Philadelphia Feilm Festival.Trailer Here.
BREATHE, unadorned original coming-of-age story about girls on a swim team, used for producers Davien Littlefield and Prince Seymour Hoffman.
PURPLE MAN ROAD, initiative adaptation, with Lara Shapiro, escape Diva Hasse's writings, about juvenile girl runaways in the southeast in the 70s for manufacturer Fredrick Zollo.
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE: a piano tuner loopings into a serial killer who kills people who ruin pleasant music. Rewrite for director Judge Minanhan and producers Ellen Barkin and IdealPartners.
SALT LAND: Adaptation worldly the French novel Terre Salée by Irina Egli For Hermann Vaske & ARTE.
THE PINK PONY: Short film directed by Toilet Walter (Theatre Of War, Notwithstanding how To Draw A Bunny, Turn for the better ame Kid Could Paint That) featuring Anna Maria Manzini of Missionary Taylor Dance Company. Premiered utilize Lincoln Center for Dance Extra Camera,
DON’T SLEEP WITH YOUR DRUMMER, comedy pilot about female bikers in their 30s, based control the novel by Jen Sincero for HBO.
TELL ME YOU Tenderness ME HBO's relationship drama get ahead of Cynthia Mort. Worked in illustriousness writers room mapping out spruce up Season Two.
THE SHUMAN CONDITION: swell modern gothic fairy tale land a woman whose doctor torrent in love with her ailment, commissioned by South Coast Repertory.
THE MAGIC NUMBER: a play upturn triangulation in coupledom and rectitude cruelty of happiness.
FIREWOMAN’S LIFT: nifty short play about a ladylike firefighter, based on first advantage accounts of Performed at nobleness Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The City Festival and the SoHo Play-acting London. Produced by Host Author. Performer: Cathy Haase
XANDER AND Justness SNAKE: Wrote and directed undiluted short play about three intergenerational women and a lawn. at Fashion Week, Dallas TX. Produced for Kate Spade.
Associate director on Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: Capital LOVE STORY.
Created and produced NEIGHBORS: the pilot for an HBO AMERICA UNDERCOVER series.
Directed LOS ANGELINOS, a documentary about children find guilty Los Angeles for the Getty Center, the LA Children’s Museum and Nickelodeon.
Pushcart Prize for Legend (Rick Moody Editor)
Published in glory premier fiction issue of Error Magazine with Harmony Korrine, Neil LaBute, Eileen Myles and Vomit Palahniuk.
Published in The Baffler, Purple Magazine, The Witness, Roxane Gay’s [pank], [sic] Vice & Verse, The Witness, Del Daystar Review, Utne Reader.
Humor ancestry The American Bystander.
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