HANNAH MYERS

Grant Writer and Institutional Giving Consultant

Hannah Myers (she / her) is an award-winning Actor, Director, and Filmmaker, bred in the Carolinas and based in NYC. She prefers to take all meetings around a late night bonfire. Hannah is a 2022 Gotham Week (IFP) and DOC NYC selected filmmaker as well as a Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium Alumni and annual staff member. Her films have received support from Southern Documentary Fund, Spare Part Films, Video Consortium, The Kenan Institute, and Center for Independent Documentary 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. Most recently, she directed the short film REST (The Bushwick Starr), led the first cast of SORRY (SITI Company), and appeared on FBI (CBS). She is currently in production on her first feature documentary film, DADDY.

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. She holds a BFA in Drama from University of North Carolina School of the Arts as a Kenan Scholar in addition to independent studies with Kristin Linklater and Bob Krakower.

Portrait: Ben Allen, HudValley Photo