Hannah Myers (she / her) is an award-winning Actor, Director, and Filmmaker, bred in the Carolinas and based in New York City. She is a 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow as well as a Telluride Film Festival Symposium Alumni and annual staff member. Her films have received support from The Gotham (IFP), DOC NYC, Southern Documentary Fund, Video Consortium, The Kenan Institute, Center for Independent Documentary, and The Cabins Residency and screened at festivals worldwide. With roots in the theater, Hannah has worked closely on new play development with Lincoln Center, Atlantic Theater Company, Soho Rep., The Bushwick Starr, Ensemble Studio Theater, 3DaysPrior, and Gibney Dance Center among others.
Hannah works closely with arts and culture nonprofits including SPACE on Ryder Farm and solutions journalism magazine, Reasons to be Cheerful, founded by David Byrne. Co-Founder of Tiedyen4biden (VOGUE, LATimes), a grassroots movement that raised $170,000 for Democratic campaigns during the 2020 election cycle. Hannah is passionate about collaborative, somatic storytelling that empowers women and other underrepresented voices. Her work often explores personal inheritance: the sexual, spiritual, and socio-economic leftovers that we are mysteriously born into and haunted by. University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA, Drama).
