• SCREENWRITER | PLAYWRIGHT | DIRECTOR
  • BRANDING + COPYWRITING + CREATIVE DIRECTION
  • Hermette Magazine!
  • HERMETTE WIRELESS
  • THE DJOODIE
  • MUSIC
  • U.S. POST OFFICE
  • TAXI DRIVER WISDOM
  • VOICE OVER REEL
  • New Gallery
  • THE ELDER
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT

Risa Mickenberg

  • SCREENWRITER | PLAYWRIGHT | DIRECTOR
  • BRANDING + COPYWRITING + CREATIVE DIRECTION
  • Hermette Magazine!
  • HERMETTE WIRELESS
  • THE DJOODIE
  • MUSIC
  • U.S. POST OFFICE
  • TAXI DRIVER WISDOM
  • VOICE OVER REEL
  • New Gallery
  • THE ELDER
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
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Author & Packager: TAXI DRIVER WISDOM (Chronicle Books).

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SELECTED SCREENPLAYS:

EGG, written by Risa Mickenberg, directed by Marianna Palka. Produced by Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche. (USA) – World Premiere TriBeCa Film Festival. Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood. With Christina Hendricks, Anna Camp, Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche, Gbenga Akinnagbe. Trailer Here.

BREATHE, an original coming-of-age story about girls on a swim team, for producers Davien Littlefield and the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman.

PURPLE MAN ROAD, an adaptation, with Lara Shapiro, from Diva Hasse's writings, about adolescent girl runaways in the south in the 70s for producer Fredrick Zollo.

EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE: a piano tuner turns into a serial killer who kills people who ruin good music.  Rewrite for director Daniel Minanhan and producers Ellen Barkin and IdeaPartners. 

SALT LAND: Adaptation of the French novel Terre Salée by Irina Egli For Hermann Vaske & ARTE.

THE PINK PONY: Short film directed by John Walter (Theatre Of War, How To Draw A Bunny, My Kid Could Paint That) featuring Anna Maria Manzini of Paul Taylor Dance Company. Premiered at Lincoln Center for Dance On Camera, 2013.

SELECTED TELEVISION:

DON’T SLEEP WITH YOUR DRUMMER, comedy pilot about female rockers in their 30s, based on the novel by Jen Sincero for HBO.

TELL ME YOU LOVE ME HBO's relationship drama by Cynthia Mort. Worked in the writers room mapping out a Season Two.

SELECTED PLAYS:

THE SHUMAN CONDITION: a modern gothic fairy tale about a woman whose doctor falls in love with her disease, commissioned by South Coast Repertory.

THE MAGIC NUMBER: a play about triangulation in coupledom and the cruelty of happiness.

FIREWOMAN’S LIFT: a short play about a female firefighter, based on first hand accounts of 9-11. Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Brighton Festival and the SoHo Theatre London. Produced by Host London. Performer: Cathy Haase

XANDER AND THE SNAKE: Wrote and directed a short play about three intergenerational women and a lawn. Performed at Fashion Week, Dallas TX. Produced for Kate Spade.

DOCUMENTARIES:

Associate producer on Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY.

Created and produced NEIGHBORS: the pilot for an HBO AMERICA UNDERCOVER series.

Directed LOS ANGELINOS, a documentary about children in Los Angeles for the Getty Center, the LA Children’s Museum and Nickelodeon.

FICTION:

Pushcart Prize for Fiction (Rick Moody Editor)

Published in the premier fiction issue of Vice Magazine with Harmony Korrine, Neil LaBute, Eileen Myles and Chuck Palahniuk.

Published in The Baffler, Purple Magazine, The Witness, Roxane Gay’s [pank], [sic] Vice & Verse, The Witness, Del Sol Review, Utne Reader.

Humor in The American Bystander.