Biography

Filmmaker Mandy Fabian's debut feature Jess Plus None (2023) received a New Narratives grant from Warner Bros One-Fifty and the WIF ReFrame Stamp, a mark of distinction for projects that achieve gender balance in hiring, and made its world premiere at 2023 BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. For television, Mandy co-created and directed The Young Hillary Diaries, Lifetime's first digital series, was awarded a fellowship from the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directing Program, and was named "Best New Filmmaker of the Year" by NewFilmmakers LA. On the writing side, she was a Story Editor on S4 of Web Therapy (2011) (Showtime), and her screenplay Late Bloomer was selected for the NYWIFT Meryl Streep/Oprah Winfrey Writers Lab, and in 2020 she was one of six directors chosen to lead an all-female crew for the Women's Weekend Film Challenge. Mandy also wrote the Amazon digital series Dropping the Soap (2017), which won Jane Lynch an Emmy for Best Actress in a Short Form Original in 2017. Several of Mandy's award-winning short films received theatrical distribution with Last Weekend (2022), and include Last Weekend (2022), Somebody's Mother (2014), and Killing Vivian (2013).

Mandy lives in Los Angeles and London with her husband Patrick Fabian, and their two daughters, Abbey and Delilah.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mandy Fabian