BIO
Francesca Mirabella is a writer, director, and native New Yorker. She recently graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. While at Tisch she won The Wasserman Fox Award for Best Screenplay and was singularly nominated out of her class by the graduate faculty for a Princess Grace Award.
Mirabella has made numerous short films, as well as music videos, which have screened at numerous festivals, including at MoMA as a part of “The Future of Film, is Female.”
Mirabella was a 2017-2018 Marcie Bloom Fellow. She received a 2018 Tribeca All Access Grant and won the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival screenwriting competition, as well as being a finalist at 2020 New Orleans Film Festival screenwriting competition for her feature script Modern Love.
Additionally, along with co-creator Kylah Benes-Trapp, she participated in 2018 Tribeca / Channel, Through Her Lens Program and most recently participated in the Refinery29/Kate Spade Pilot Program for their series HEATHER.
Mirabella has made work for The Rockefeller Foundation, Cultured Magazine, Fox Sports, The Hearst Company, Verizon, Topic, Kate Spade + Refinery 29.