Meryl O’Connor is an Alaskan born, Brooklyn-based filmmaker and editor working in both narrative and documentary. Her award-winning fiction shorts have screened at festivals internationally, including in Cannes La Cinef program, where she premiered “The Ballad of Finn and Yeti.” She is an editor of award-winning documentary features, “Pigeon Kings” and “Hollow Tree,” and shorts that have played at festivals including DOC NYC, NOFF, SIFF, and VIFF, and been featured on The Atlantic, PBS, Hulu, and Amazon. Her feature script, “The Waiting Dead” was a finalist for American Zoetrope and her latest script “Ignore/Delete” was a semi-finalist for the Tony Cox Award. She received her MFA in film directing from UCLA and currently works as an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Film at Fairfield University.
Before shifting into film, she studied studio art at NYU as well as at Yale’s Norfolk painting program and worked as an art director for Warner Music Group. Her background in art and design informs her visually stylized and idiosyncratic approach to the stories she tells.