VERA MIAO

 

Creator, Director and Executive Producer on “Two Sentence Horror Stories”

 

Vera Miao is a creator, writer, executive producer, and director of the horror anthology series “Two Sentence Horror Stories.”

 

Miao is passionate about making artful stories that genuinely reflect the diverse world as it is today, confront contemporary social issues and celebrate her lifelong love of and joy for TV and movies, including horror and sci-fi.

 

Born to working class immigrants from Taiwan, Miao worked for many years in the nonprofit social justice sector and then as a professional actor before focusing on writing and directing. Her apocalyptic road trip feature “Best Friends Forever,” premiered at Slamdance in 2013. Her feature script “At First” is described as a queer Before Sunrise for the “Orange Is The New Black” generation. Miro was part of the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab and Sundance Institute/Women in Film Financing Intensive. She was a fellow of the inaugural year of the Tribeca Film Institute’s “Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program.”

 

Additional writing credits include “Fear the Walking Dead” and the upcoming Nicole Kidman/Lulu Wang series “The Expatriates.”

 

Miao will direct an upcoming thriller produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Valhalla Entertainment, and is developing her next feature with Rian Johnson’s T Street Productions and A-Major Media.

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