Mandy's accomplishments in comedy film won her a Sony Pictures Television Directing Fellowship in 2014. More recently, she directed the pilot Shitty Boyfriends (2015) for New Form Digital/Is or Isn't Entertainment which got picked up to series. Additionally, she is slated to direct the feature Hemlock Drive.
In addition to being selected for festivals all over the country, Killing Vivian (2013), which she wrote and directed, earned her Top Female Filmmaker at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. Her next short film, Somebody's Mother (2014), won Best Short at the California Independent Film Festival, plus Best Director and Best Actress at the Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival. All films received distribution with ShortsHD Network. Her latest film, You're Breaking Up (2015), not only was an official selection of the Palm Springs International ShortsFest, but Mandy recently discovered that the film did her taxes so it's definitely a winner.
As a writer, Mandy works as a story editor on Showtime's Web Therapy (2011) and is a writer/creator of the series Dropping the Soap (2015) which was executive produced by Jane Lynch, Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky and Don Roos.
Mandy lives in LA with her husband Patrick Fabian, her daughters Abbey and Delilah, and Daisy, the Worst Dog Ever(TM).
