Micky Levy

An award-winning screenwriter, accomplished director and producer, Levy is a perpetual student of the human condition.

She is able to navigate gender, race, sex, and ethnicity via pen and via lens to allow audiences into the hidden, foreign, and often marginalized places of society, and does so in an entertaining way.

Born in Israel, Levy immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. Arriving in Los Angeles with only $700 to her name, she immersed herself in her passion for filmmaking. That dedication paid off.

Levy caught the eye of Alison Eastwood and Warner Bros. with a script she wrote entitled RAILS & TIES. Directed by Eastwood, the film starred Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden. It premiered domestically in the Telluride Film Festival and overseas at the acclaimed Toronto International Film Festival.

Since then, Micky has completed several book adaptations, including Lifetime’s AMISH GRACE for which she received a Humanitas Prize nomination.

Micky’s directorial work in film includes the documentary short, FIRST TIME, lensed by Svetlana Cvetko, and the narrative short, PAGE’S GREAT AND GRAND ESCAPE, which played at over thirty film festivals and on Virgin Atlantic flights. Recently, PAGE has been included in the award-winning short film anthology, HER MIND IN PIECES.

In 2018, Micky directed UNION, a short thriller starring Sean Patrick Thomas, adapted from a story by best-selling author Steven Heighton. The film premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival and won Best Women Short at Indie Short Fest.   

Currently, Levy is developing projects that tackle both challenging and controversial subject matter: the perpetual stigma surrounding mental illness, as portrayed in EXPERIMENT 77, a thriller/horror feature film from writer Kim Knopf that Levy is directing; the modern day realities of female genital mutilation (FGM) told in the beautiful love story, SONGS OF MAASAI MARA, that Levy developed with Kenyan screenwriter Correne Gichuru with Levy directing and producing; and the historical evolution of racial dynamics and inequality that she explores with her screenplay NOBODY, an adaptation of Caryl Phillips’ novel, Dancing in the Dark. Levy’s adaptation placed in the Top Ten of the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition.

The driving force behind Levy’s filmmaking is telling compelling stories that expose injustice and follow rebellious, non-conformist, principled characters that powerfully connect with audiences.

Selected Awards & Recognition

Humanitas Prize nomination (90-minute category) 

Epiphany Prize, Winner Adapted Screenplay

Columbus Award, Winner Drama Screenplay

Top Ten Tony Cox Showtime Screenplay Competition

1st Place Winner Scriptapalooza Television Writing Competition (original pilot) 

Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow