Mishki Vaccaro
Mishki is a writer and director hailing from Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. in Cultural Studies from McGill University and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. She spent the better part of the last decade living and working in Los Angeles but once again calls Toronto home… (until winter, when she misses the SoCal sunshine).
She's worked in feature film development at Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films (X-Men, The Martian, Deadpool) and in television development and production at Jason Winer’s Small Dog Picture Company (Modern Family, Life In Pieces, The Big Leap), where she cut her teeth on the first season of Single Parents (ABC) and Woman Up (ABC pilot). Her produced work includes I’m F.I.N.E., a groundbreaking choose-your-own-adventure pilot with Eko Interactive and the finale of NBC’s Perfect Harmony.
Most recently, Mishki wrote and directed the award-winning short film, Bardo, with the support of OPC in Toronto. Her feature film script, #FreeBritney, won Script Pipeline’s Screenwriting Competition in 2022. She’s pitched television shows to major streamers and networks and continues to develop an exciting slate of film and TV projects. Mishki currently works as a writer in the audio narrative space.
From a young age, Mishki understood the cathartic nature of storytelling and the power of owning your own voice. Mishki writes dark comedy about imperfect women exploring the deep fears and dilemmas of the human experience. She thinks of screenwriting as “good magic,” accidentally has two dogs and will absolutely read your astrology chart.