For The Audience | Misha Calvert - Writer, Actress, Director

Misha Calvert | Writer, Actress, Directorhttps://www.mishacalvert.com/instagram: @mishacalvertMisha is an award-winning show creator with projects spanning film, TV, theater, and digital. After being invited into the Tribeca Digital Creators Market, Misha was commissioned to create a new comedy series for BRIC TV entitled All Hail Beth which had its soundtrack debut at #25 on the iTunes Charts. A semi-finalist for the Sundance/YouTube New Voices Lab from 2016-2018 and current finalist for the 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab, Misha has screened at festivals around the world for her digital series Strut, Textual Intercourse, and Step Into My Office. As an actor, Misha has appeared regularly on the Emmy Award-winning show A Crime to Remember. Off-Broadway writer/director credits include three Chekhovian satires set in a 1980’s high school, and the original comedy A Seagull is Born. Off-Broadway acting credits include The Crucible, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Psycho Beach Party. Misha first achieved notoriety as an experimental performance artist, where she garnered a great deal of press for her media manipulation and public satires, most notably Re-Virginization, The Mister and Miss Williamsburg Pageant, and the Bob Ross-themed fundraiser Beat the Devil Out of It which raised money for Brooklyn art students.Having spent her young adult years hopping between New York and London, Misha has enjoyed being a CEO and nightclub DJ in equal measure. She prioritizes entertainment and fantastic storytelling, and is a fierce advocate for diversity and expanding prosocial conversations. As a director, her work delivers a bold, authentic female POV with strong representation for womxn across cast and crew. As a writer, Misha is both provocative and inclusive and explores an array of genres from comic satire on up to dramatic thriller.