‘Queen Of Glory’ Filmmaker Nana Mensah Inks With WME
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Nana Mensah, the writer, director, producer and actress who made her feature debut with Queen of Glory, has signed with WME for representation.In the comedy, which premiered in U.S.
Narrative Competition at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, the Ghanaian-American multihyphenate stars as Sarah, who looks to abandon her Ivy League doctoral program to follow her married lover across the country.
The film netted Mensah the festival’s award for Best New Narrative Director and its Special Jury Prize for Artistic Expression, as well as the Mill Valley Film Festival’s inaugural Mind the Gap Creation Prize.Mensah was a staff writer on Season 2 of HBO’s late-night sketch series Random Acts of Flyness and is currently writing on Amazon’s The Power.
She co-wrote and co-starred in Season 2 of Netflix’s Bonding, and appeared last fall in a series regular role opposite Sandra Oh and Bob Balaban in Netflix’s half-hour comedy, The Chair.
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