About

Missy Bell has been directing and coaching actors for the past 22 years. Beginning at the age of 19 as a stage director, she eventually found her way to the world of film in her thirties.

“It feels like the perfect marriage to me of everything that I am – as if all roads led to the moment I began my directing work for “Sink”: my first short. The little autistic kid lining up Crayola markers to see which order was most aesthetically pleasing under the warm glow of the Edison lamp in my childhood home now sees the world in breakdowns of color and feeling. I love, more than anything else, telling a story – watching words dance off of the page and onto the frame. It’s more than passion – it’s releasing a piece of my soul.”

Missy lives in the mountains of North Carolina where, outside the film world, she wears the hats of mom, teacher, jazz enthusiast, kayaker, and drinker of black coffee.