Marissa Strickland is a writer, actress and director from Los Angeles - but also spent portions of her childhood in Spain, Hungary, and the ultra manicured suburbs. These experiences inform her work and give her a unique perspective on being an outsider. She loves grounded bittersweet comedy, where joy and laughter sit right next to sadness and loss.
Her work may be visually colorful, but she prefers to explore emotional gray areas. Narratives where there aren’t winners, losers, or binary categories, but instead, truthful, complicated, and multifaceted people doing their best with what they have.
In 2020, she wrote and directed Give Me a Sign, a short film about a depressed woman finding hope in a visiting butterfly. In 2018, she created Pappy, a web series about her experience trying to connect with her eccentric father. She’s a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and regularly performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Marissa’s writing and acting credits include ABC’s Black-ish, HBO Max’s Tig n’ Seek, ABC’s Happy Endings, Mailchimp’s Trade Show Show, and Adult Swim’s Newsreaders.