The Team
Mirra Bank, Director, is an award-winning director of film and theater, and member of the Academy. Her feature documentary Last Dance was short-listed for an Academy Award, while her nonfiction feature Nobody's Girls (with Cloris Leachman, Esther Rolle, and Tantoo Cardinal) aired as a PBS prime-time special. Her feature Enormous Changes (Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, David Strathairn) premiered at Sundance, followed by a critically praised theatrical release. Bank's films have received prestigious support and honors, screening at festivals worldwide, including New York, Chicago, BFI/London, Palm Springs, Edinburgh, Toronto, and Sundance. A Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio, Bank has directed premieres of American plays on Theater Row (NYC) and in London, including new works by Oscar-nominee, and BAFTA-winner, Murray Schisgal.
Kathryn is an award-winning writer whose full-length plays include The Wound of Love, The Good Counselor, Handicapped People in Their Formal Attire, The Alabaster Virgin, The Khmer Shiva, Order My Steps, and Aliyah. She has received the Berilla Kerr Award in playwriting, the Jerry Kaufman award in playwriting, The Premiere Stages Festival Award, and a citation from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. Her plays have been presented at The Actors Studio, Penguin Repertory Theater, the John Houseman Studio Theater, Provincetown Repertory Theater, Premiere Stages in New Jersey, Theater Breaking Through Barriers, 1st stages in DC, Ensemble Theater’s Octoberfest, and the American Renaissance Theater. Her work is published by Samuel French, Smith and Krause, and Applause Books. Her first series, adapted from her play, The Good Counselor is in development with Vicki McCarty of Covington, International.
A unique boutique agency founded by female creative duo & close friends Eva Minemar and Dolores Diaz. Mulberry Queens Films provides production from concept to completion. Specializing in representing the unrepresented in TV & Film, MQ remains committed to supporting projects for women by women and equality both in from and behind the camera. MQ Projects range from cutting-edge documentaries to feature film, TV, commercials, theatre, and music videos to film festival programming and event coordination. Current projects range from Sundance finalists, HBO, Oscar qualified films to award-winning cultural arts festivals worldwide.