NORA MARRIS is a director and writer from Buffalo, New York. She is based in NYC, and she recently completed her MFA in Film Directing/Screenwriting at Columbia University where she was awarded the David Henry Hammer Award in Film.

She works in an actor-focused process emphasizing co-writing through improvisation in rehearsal and on set, and her work comprises character-driven stories often following women with abrasive personalities through humiliating and confrontational situations. She obtained a film directing certificate from FAMU, the Prague film and television school, and BAs in music composition and film from American University.

Her thesis short EVERY MAN IN NEW YORK IS NAMED ANDREW, an improv-based comedy shot on black and white 16mm film in September 2024 (after a successful crowdfunding and social media marketing campaign), was awarded Jury Honors at Columbia University premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Indy Shorts, and is screening in competition at The Festival of Future Storytellers (formerly FILMSCHOOLFEST) in Munich this November. She is in post-production on a comedy doc-fiction hybrid short about a traffic jam which she directed and on a documentary short about barrel racing in Alaska which she produced. Her directorial debut feature THAT MAN IN MY PHONE MIGHT LOVE ME is in development.