Filmmaker + Reel

Michal Sinnott is an award winning, classically trained actor/writer/producer/director & storyteller whose work in film, television, theatre, audio spaces, & games traverses mediums, genres, & locales. Her first narrative feature, 'Unpacking,’ as a co/writer-director-producer just wrapped the 2024 festival circuit and will be streaming on all major platforms later this month. 'Unpacking' screened 25 festivals globally (including Cinequest, Richmond International, & Sedona International) and won 17 awards (including Best Actress (Michal), Best of the Fest, Best Ensemble, Audience Choice, & Rising Star Director) She’s appeared in dozens of plays and over fifty principal/starring roles for radio, television and film, including companies/institutions as diverse as ABC, Sundance and The Whitney Museum of American Art. A proud member of SAG-Aftra and Equity, she’s best known as the voice, likeness and performance capture artist for Tracey De Santa, one of the main characters in the billion dollar phenomena Grand Theft Auto V. Her stage plays have received staged readings and awards in Virginia (Theater Virginia) and Los Angeles (The Blank Theatre). She's in development on six projects as a writer-producer, including 'Anxiety Monster & Man Child Make Amends,' a meta scripted comedy series about the worst period of her life, and a narrative feature, 'The Universe(s) of Us,’ (formally ‘Born That Way’), a magical realist multiverse love story.  She was the lead Producer on the Tanzania unit of production that shot drone footage with the Maasai. ‘The Universe(s) of Us’ was a Sundance Screenwriting Lab second rounder, top 15% for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and a recipient of Big Vision Empty Wallet’s Kickstart Diversity Program. She recently relocated to the mountains of Virginia with her husband (and frequent writing collaborator) Joseph so that they could make more time for filmmaking and their creative life. They’ll be shooting her feature ‘YOYOs’ (‘You’re On Your Own’) this summer in the woods of her six acres. A former flight attendant and three time cancer survivor, she’s traveled to thirty+ countries on six continents and continues to navigate the inner work necessary for flight.