Bio

An award-winning director, produced writer, and Emmy-nominated producer, Victoria was recently honored in Hollywood as one of StudioDaily’s “Exceptional Women.” Her films are included in the collection of the Motion Picture Academy and were part of a special exhibit of the Library of Congress. TV work includes dramas, comedies, docs and specials streamed on Amazon Prime and aired on ABC, A&E, Discovery, PBS, Comedy Central, Logo, NatGeo and in more than 25 countries, including England’s Channel Four, France’s Canal Plus, and CCTV (China). Victoria directed and co-produced the TV pilot for Outlaugh, which starred Lea Delaria and Jason Stuart; it was picked up by Viacom and ran for years starring Margaret Cho. Victoria’s ABC drama, Saying Kaddish, was nominated for an Emmy and An Empty Bed was a New York Times Critic’s Pick distributed by Focus Features.

Victoria has directed and/or produced for Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony winners, as well as the stars of The Walking Dead, Orange Is the New Black, Law & Order SVU, Bosch, and Seinfeld. Victoria has written and developed projects with late Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison and Talking Heads’ David Byrne, among others. Her work has taken her all over the world, from writing and developing film projects in India to directing TV in China; her films have screened at festivals in countries as diverse as Switzerland, Nigeria, Spain and Australia. 

Notable film and TV work includes the noir thriller, Room 32, a festival hit still winning awards available on Amazon Prime (director); Open House, a comedy pilot featuring an international cast (co-writer/director);  producer on Pair of Jokers, starring Jerry Stiller (King of Queens; Seinfeld; Hairspray); and the classic The Amish: Not to Be Modern (director/co-producer). More recently, Grey, a drama starring Mikel Miller (Bosch, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.) and influencer Beccy Quinn premiered in LA as centerpiece of a “Diversity in Hollywood” Industry Panel (co-writer/co-director).  Secret in Provence, a Lynchian genre-blend feature based on her story/dialogue and which she co-produced, kicked-off the 15th Annual Venice CA Film Festival, where it won Best Feature. 

As a screen /TV writer, she’s a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist for her intergenerational comedy Manhattan Meat; a Sundance Screenwriters Lab semi-finalist for Beyond the Veil, a supernatural thriller subsequently optioned; she was nominated for a 2020 “WriteHer” Contest Award for Hello It’s Me, Kittie, a comedy pilot she wrote with an actor from hit shows on Adult Swim, Disney, BET, and Nickelodeon. Animal Behavior, a feminist sexy drama, was optioned; Victoria’s also been commissioned to write screenplays, treatments, etc. and won seven writing grants. 

In the theatre world, Victoria co-wrote and directed the farce Sawed in Half. Developed with stand-up comedian Andrea Mevzinsky, crowned “America’s Funniest Mom” by Oprah Winfrey, it opened at the Complex Theatre in Hollywood and enjoyed a second run at the Acme in Noho. Sawed received rave reviews and was nominated for four awards; Victoria won “Best Director” at the Noho Fringe Festival (2017). Victoria’s first play, Angel Dog, was produced on New York’s Theatre Row, with her directing.  While in NYC, she directed the film adaptation of Lee Nagrin’s Obie Award-winning play Bird/Bear. In LA, she joined GuerilLA Theatre as director-in-residence. After a successful run of one-acts, 24 Hours AM/PM, the company commissioned her to adapt the plays for TV. 

At present, her family-friendly film DOGS! Waiting to Be Loved, featuring original music by Broadway composer Norman Thalheimer and Grammy-winner Charlie Midnight is in pre-production, (visit DOGS! website at www.dogswaitingtobeloved.com ) Victoria studied directing with the great Wynn Handman of the American Place Theatre and film production at NYU. 

 To view a complete list of her credits, honors, and awards, click on the Recognition tab.