Mirra Bank is an award-winning director, and member of AMPAS, whose work has international reach. She shot her anti-poaching documentary feature, NO FEAR NO FAVOR, in wilderness areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Bank’s THE ONLY REAL GAME (Netflix premiere; narration by Academy Award winner, Melissa Leo) explores the healing passion for American baseball in strife-torn northeast India. In LAST DANCE, short-listed for an Academy Award, Bank followed a stormy collaboration between Pilobolus and author-illustrator Maurice Sendak on a Holocaust-themed dance work. Also with Pilobolus, Bank directed MONKEY & THE BONE DEMON, a cyberPunk take on a Chinese fable, and LUCID DREAMS, a music/dance/film piece that premiered at Carnegie Hall. Bank's PBS non-fiction feature, NOBODY'S GIRLS, illuminates the lives of Old West minority women, with notable leads from Esther Rolle, Tantoo Cardinal, and Cloris Leachman. Bank’s feature adaptation of three Grace Paley stories, ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE (Sundance premiere), starred Ellen Barkin, David Strathairn, and Kevin Bacon, with a screenplay by John Sayles. Bank is an NEA, NEH, CPB, NYSCA, NYFA, and American Film Institute Award recipient; a MacDowell Fellow; and a Smith College Medalist in Arts. Bank is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio as a Director, and has directed new works on New York’s Theater Row, regionally in the US, in London, and in Italy.