Come meet Melissa Skirboll - Writer/Director/Producer/Playwright

Melissa Skirboll is an award-winning director, writer, actor and producer – for both screen and stage.

She was awarded the FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR 2019 at the Vasteras Film Festival in Sweden this past October.

Currently in post-production with her fourth short Greetings From Sarajevo, her first three films have been official selections in 63 festivals around the world and have garnered 15 awards and 48 nominations thus far.

My Dinner With Schwartzey screened at LIIFE in 2019 and won best cinematography and best editing here. It premiered at the Bermuda International Film Fest in March 2019 and has since won Best Dramedy at the Manhattan Film Fest, Best Dramedy and Best Director at the NYC TV Fest, Best Director at Brightside Tavern Film Festival, Best Cinematography and Editing at the Long Island International Film Expo, Best Film and DP at DMOFF, and Best Actress at the EHTVFest.

Her work in theater has been recognized with a number of nominations and awards. Her short play Battered Fedora has been chosen for production at the 2020 Estrogenius Festival. She's won outstanding playwright for Blizzard: A Love Story; outstanding direction The Closet by Amy Gray Piper; nominated for acting in Blizzard: A Love Story, for direction on both Superstars by Glory Kadigan and Straight-Faced Lies by Mark Jason Williams, and for projections/SFX on A Madness of One Acts.

She is a member of New York Madness, a director for the Women's Work Play Lab at New Perspectives Theatre and has directed for various companies including Nylon Fusion Theater Co, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre and Estrogenius Festival. Ego Actus, Abingdon Theatre, and Urban Stages have staged her plays here in New York.

Skirboll is a proud member of NYWIFT and SAG/AFTRA. She's a member of the Brazen Giant Artists Ensemble, NY Madness, and New Perspectives New Play Lab.

Melissa also teaches acting for the Sande Shurin Acting Studio and works with individuals as a private coach.