SOME VITAE

Risa Mickenberg is a lady hermit living it up in NYC. A multimedia commercial bullshit artist, she dabbles which sounds disgusting and is.

Still, she’s been awarded film residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo.

She is a proud and baffled member of the Writers Guild of America East and the Screen Actors Guild.

This ham has been featured +/or interviewed on NPR, at The Wing, at IFC Center, in The New Yorker, USA Today, the Village Voice, the Rosie O'Donnell Show, Vice, Entertainment Weekly, Bikini, London Weekend Television, ABC Australia, Der Spiegel, the Dr. Demento show, Radio New Zealand, Sirius Alt Nation and many other quality media outlets, both living and dead.

Studied directing with Mike Nichols and Tom Noonan, acting with Sheila Gray and with Edith Meeks at HB Studios, theater direction at ESPA. AIGA/MoMA award for directing. Shoot Magazine One To Watch.

Studied fiction with Gordon Lish, Suzanne McConnell, Leslie Epstein, Peter Carey, humor and storytelling with Patricia Marx and Lynda Barry. Pushcart Prize for fiction. Master classes with Annie Baker, Ed Bullins, Craig Lucas, Paul Taylor Dance, Kyle Abraham's Abraham In Motion.

Selected member of the BMI Lehmen-Engel Musical Theater Lyricist’s Workshop.

Additional graduate studies at the NYC Performing Arts Library and in the great video stores of New York City: Kim's Video and World Of Video.

She is a member of the film faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the advisory board for the UConn Ballad Institute and Museum of Puppetry..

She is the editor of Hermette Magazine and co-songwriter/singer for the band Jesus H Christ and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.