Mel Shimkovitz
Acting
Biography
Mel Shimkovitz is an actress and writer, known for Transparent (2014), SMILF (2017) and Be Here Nowish (2014).
Known For
This Is Me
THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming filmmakers. Personal essays, direct actions, explainers - each filmmaker has crafted a segment that explores a theme in TRANSPARENT.
A Bad Feeling
The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.
Transparent
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
MA / DDY
A genderqueer widow carries a child using their late wife's embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life.
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come
Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.
Now Is: I am Happiness
After a messy breakup, a couple says their final goodbyes.
Virgin Territory
A teenage girl commences her journey of sexual exploration through intercourse with an absolutely irrelevant boy.
Dope State
A six-episode docucomedy about the Gold Rush culture of the California weed industry starring the multidimensional Gabriel Sunday.
Filmography
as Lauren Producer
as Indiana Maul
as Jordan
as Ash
as Themself
as Skylar Murphy
as Jude