Melissa Miller Costanzo

Writer / Director, Creative Machinist
Formats Interested In
TV
Features
Manuscripts
Shorts
Particularly Interested In

- Working with writers who also want to be directors
- Dramedies
- Thirty minute tv shows in the vein of THE OTHER TWO, FLEABAG, VEEP.

Women Writers
Writers Over 40
Authors (Fiction)
Feature Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Thriller
Budget Range
All Budget Ranges
TV Formats
Half-Hour Pilots (single-cam)
One-Hour Pilots
TV Homes
Network
Cable
Premium Cable
Streaming
TV Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Thriller
Book Genres
Autobiographies
Buddy
Comedy
Coming-of-Age
Drama
Female-Driven
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Road Trip
True Crime
True Stories
Women's Fiction
Young Adult (YA) / Teen
Sub-Genres
Book Adaptation
Coming-of-Age
Dark Comedy
Female-Driven
Historical
Irreverent
Musical
Psychological
Reality/Unscripted TV
Road Trip
Romance
Satire
Socially Relevant
Young Adult (YA)
Specifically Not Interested In

Horror

More about Melissa Miller Costanzo

Melissa Miller Costanzo is a writer/director with the benefit of a decisive visual point of view. She most recently directed the comedy THE LIST for Universal Pictures starring Halston Sage, Christian Navarro, and Chrissie Fit.

Her first feature which she wrote and directed, ALL THESE SMALL MOMENTS starring Molly Ringwald, Brian d’arcy James, Jemima Kirke, Brendan Meyer, and Harley Quinn Smith, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in the spotlight narrative section and was picked up by Orion Classics.

She has produced several feature films including THE TESTED starring Aunjanue Ellis, Armando Riesco, and Frank Vincent which was accepted to the prestigious IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab and Emerging Narratives at IFP Film Week.

She came up through the studio system, working with industry leaders at 3 Arts Entertainment, New Line Cinema, Universal Pictures, and Julia Roberts Production company gaining invaluable insight into the inner workings of the business and what companies look for.

Her time spent on set and as a union crew member has helped to inform her work and the worlds she creates. She is not only known for the intimate characters she creates, but for the clear realm in which they exist.

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