Michelle Krusiec is an award winning actor/writer/director who’s starred in almost 200 episodes of television and 36 films. She is the only Asian American actress to be nominated Best Actress for the Chinese Language Oscar, the Golden Horse. On stage, Krusiec starred in Wild Goose Dreams off Broadway at the Public Theatre directed by Leigh Silverman. She launched her career with her critically acclaimed solo show Made in Taiwan, landing her an ABC holding deal. She was named by Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top Ten Artists To Watch and also featured in the Sundance Faces of Hollywood for role in Saving Face, directed by Alice Wu.
As a director, Krusiec draws from personal storytelling as a way of creating painfully honest, often funny and universally appealing stories that place women and underrepresented peoples at the center of their own narratives. She’s completing production on her comedic digital series Scenes From a Real Marriage which won Best Web Series at the New Digital Media Festival.
Krusiec’s achievements as an artist and advocate have been honored by The White House, State of California and Museum of Chinese America. She next appears in the Ryan Murphy series Hollywood playing the 1930’s icon Anna May Wong. Krusiec anticipates making her directorial feature debut with Shiny, a story about a young woman whose passion for African dance unleashes her voice.
Krusiec holds a BA in English and Theatre from VT and studied Shakespeare and Women’s Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar. Additional training includes UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting, Center of Asian American Media’s Screenwriting Fellowship. Krusiec serves on the Los Angeles based Blank Theatre’s Reading committee and as a Sundance Co//ab Community Leader.
Her mentors are Kim Gillingham, Larry Moss, Andrew Belser and Karin Chien.
