BIO
Cleo Handler is a writer, actor, and director in Brooklyn/Los Angeles. A multi-hyphenate who loves horror/comedy, music/theater, and slashes/hyphens, she has created & directed several original films, including The Living, Olympian, Routine, and #LifeOnAir (an experimental, interactive mystery series told completely on Instagram), and has written several others, including Out to Lunch, Moon Party, and the musical web series Young Like Us. Her work has screened at and been recognized by Frightfest, the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Film Shortage Premieres, and more, and her screenplay Good Girl was a 2022 finalist for the Sundance Institute Development Track / Sloan Commissioning Grant.
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Her musicals From The Fire and Glass Act have been featured in Broadway’s Future Songbook at Lincoln Center, winners of the Players Theater Off-Broadway Musical Production Program, and semi-finalists for the O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference. She has worked in production for SYFY/USA’s Chucky and Showtime’s Couples Therapy, and recently released two albums, called gold and 19 Songs to Sing Alone in Your House. After graduating from Yale, where she was an O’Neill Playwriting Fellow, she studied lyric writing in the Advanced BMI Musical Theater Workshop, and acting with Bill Esper at the William Esper Studio. Acting highlights include Chucky (Dir. Don Mancini) and Public Morals (Dir. Ed Burns).
She’s into bending and blending roles, genres, and punctuation - and is liable to tell you a spooky story or break into song. Check out her newest film Red Flag, coming soon!
Photo Credit: Greg Rubin