- Shira-Lee Shalit is an award-winning director, writer, artist and filmmaker. She recently wrote and directed The Oh Gees starring Didi Conn (Grease) Kathryn Kates (Orange is the New Black) and Austin Pendleton (My Cousin Vinny). It won Best Comedy at the Paris Short Film Festival (2022) and was selected for its USA premiere at the LA Comedy Film Festival (2022). She's developing a series based on it. Chosen by Steven Spielberg out of 12,000 directors, as one of 18 Finalists for the Fox/DreamWorks TV show, "On The Lot." Her feature film debut, A-List, a comedy starring Academy Award Nominee Sally Kirkland (Anna, JFK), Renee Taylor (The Nanny) and Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place) won the Audience Award at the Milan International Film Festival, the Gold Remy Award for Best Comedy at Worldfest Film Festival, and was an IFP Project Involve Awardee. She directed the award-winning Open Air, starring Lynn Cohen (Munich, The Hunger Games) which was selected to screen at 50 festivals, winning Best Short Film at the NJInternational Film Festival, Acefest, the Silver Award at the Mexico International Film Festival and Award Of Excellence at Accolades Film Awards. Her first short, Full Cycle, that she wrote and directed was named a Regional Finalist in the Student Academy Awards. Among the many theatrical productions she's directed are the World Premiere of LAByrinth Theatre Company's Devil of Choice (Cherry Lane Theater), What's Wrong With You (Harold Clurman Lab Theater), Nick and Zoe (IRT Theater & The Bridge Theater), The Women of Padilla (AADA), Girls Will Be Girls (NY Fringe Festival -winner Fringe Favorite), Fault Lines (TBG Theatre), Lyle Kessler's Temptation and Other Sins (Planet Connections), Halley Feiffer's How To Make Friends Then Kill Them (LAB Intensive Ensemble) and many more at EST, The Actors Studio, Dixon Place, The Lark, JPP, WGAE Screenplay Series and LaMama. Born in South Africa and raised in Texas, she was awarded the prestigious Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award at the White House, and won the National Foundation of the Arts Award in Acting. Shira-Lee is a proud member of The Actors Studio Playwright/Director Unit and NY Women in Film & TV, and is on faculty at Columbia University's Graduate Film Division, Stony Brook/Killer Films MFA Film Program and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches classes on directing actors.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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