MICHELLE
ASKEW
writer // director // Actor //
No one in my family knows
what i actually do
totally grounded
as a child
ABOUT ME
"So What are you working on?"
"Myself."
Michelle Askew was born and bred in Staten Island, New York, where she grew up surrounded by a strong mother and a large family of firefighters. Sunday dinners felt like a firehouse and storytelling consisted of shouting at the dinner table. Michelle took this love of storytelling and large lung capacity and realized she wanted to be a writer/director. She received her BFA from the University of Southern California's screenwriting program in May 2021. Shortly before graduation, her comedy feature, HOT GIRL SUMMER, was the Overall Winner of the 2020 LaunchPad Feature Competition, and subsequently a 2021 Blacklist selection. The script is currently attached to director and mentor, Alexis Ostrander. Michelle writes stories that explore what it means to be a woman today through a comedic lens because if you don’t laugh at it, you’ll never get through it! She hopes to continue writing, directing, and acting, because she’d have to move back to Staten Island and become a firefighter if it doesn’t work out. She is currently repped by Artists First and United Talent Agency.
CITY GIRL
🔥
WORK
COMEDY FEATURE, CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO DIRECTOR ALEXIS OSTRANDER
OVERALL WINNER 2020 LAUNCH PAD competition
2021 blacklist Selection
It’s suburban summer at the pool club and awkward BEATRICE (13) desperately wants to be a “hot girl” in all the wrong ways. After accidentally witnessing a drug deal gone wrong, Beatrice finds herself caught in an underground drug ring... and on the perfect route to having a proper hot girl summer. GOODFELLAS meets EIGHTH GRADE
When Sam discovers she is pregnant and alone, her greatest fear of dying bubbles to the surface. She sets out on a search for the best people in her dysfunctional small town to help her raise her child, including her estranged uncle who might be more trouble than he leads on.
DRAMEDY FEATURE
2021 Nicholl Semifinalist (top 1%)
DRAMA feature
2020 Humanitas drama fellowship semifinalist
The gritty life of rising 70's rock star, Johnny Walsh, told through the eyes of Maggie, a young aspiring journalist who desperately tries to know him as much as she loves him. Her world view is changed through sex, drugs, and rock & roll, proving not every story is meant to be told.
DRAMEDY PILOT, HOUR - LONG
2X 2021 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL FINALIST -
AMC DRAMA AWARD & WARNER BROS. PILOT AWARD
Rebel without a cause, Marnie (17) ends up on the wrong side of the law yet again, and after narrowly escaping juvie, she is sent by her martyr of a mother to an all-girl Catholic boarding school. Juvie would have been better. For the school, too. DERRY GIRLS meets EUPHORIA
Written and Directed by Michelle Askew
Produced by Angela Gulner
Director of Photography: L. Dale
Edited by Olivia Sorley
Production Design: Laura Malatos
Starring Michelle Askew, Chase Simone, Michaela Boutros-Ghali, and Gianmarco Duin
GAY-ISH Short Film
A young woman reevaluates her sexuality when she attends a college reunion party with her long time boyfriend... and an unrequited female love.
Our incredibly talented fully female and/or
queer crew!!
COMING OUT Soon!
** I do not condone smoking just bisexual lighting
PRESS
"Hey, is this thing on? Haha! Oh, No? It's not?"
CONTACT
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For professional Inquiries:
United Talent Agency
Zoe Prince (MP)
zoe.prince@unitedtalent.com
Emily Fine (TV)
emily.fine@unitedtalent.com
Marissa Devins (TV)
Devins_M@unitedtalent.com
Artists First
Haley Jones
hj@artistsfirst-la.com
Katie Zipkin-Leed
kzl@artistsfirst-la.com
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