Michelle Cutler
Adaptation to Direct Short
Psychological Horror Feature Script
Prolific Entertainment - Management
Projects (2)
Connections (16)
Cradling Dion Beebe's Oscar for Memoirs of a Geisha.
Michelle Cutler grew up with a background in fine arts, self-taught in her mother’s painting studio. She later studied visual art at Parson’s School of Design and The Maryland Institute College of Art where she started two music and theatre performance groups, recorded an album, and toured with her band. She promptly defected to East Berlin where she became part of an art and film collective in Prenzlauerberg.
Three years and some six countries later, Michelle returned to New York to complete her undergraduate studies at Hunter College/CUNY in photography and film and went directly into the Graduate Film Program at NYU/Tisch School for the Arts where she was awarded The Walter Manley and David Golden Scholarships for her work. She was an IFP/New York Project Involve Honoree and has directed six short films and four original plays in New York.
In Los Angeles, she’s worked as a co-screenwriter with the DGA-award winning director Nicolai Fuglsig on an action/drama set in Brazil, and currently freelances as a commercial treatment writer for top directors and production companies.
Alicia Keys’ Big Pita Little Pita Productions and Miramax/Disney optioned her feature script, Needle, about a young woman who aspires to win a DJ battle to escape her troubled home.
She is currently adapting to direct the short story Field Study, by the award-winning writer Rachel Seiffert to be filmed this year on the Eastern border of Germany.
Three years and some six countries later, Michelle returned to New York to complete her undergraduate studies at Hunter College/CUNY in photography and film and went directly into the Graduate Film Program at NYU/Tisch School for the Arts where she was awarded The Walter Manley and David Golden Scholarships for her work. She was an IFP/New York Project Involve Honoree and has directed six short films and four original plays in New York.
In Los Angeles, she’s worked as a co-screenwriter with the DGA-award winning director Nicolai Fuglsig on an action/drama set in Brazil, and currently freelances as a commercial treatment writer for top directors and production companies.
Alicia Keys’ Big Pita Little Pita Productions and Miramax/Disney optioned her feature script, Needle, about a young woman who aspires to win a DJ battle to escape her troubled home.
She is currently adapting to direct the short story Field Study, by the award-winning writer Rachel Seiffert to be filmed this year on the Eastern border of Germany.