When it comes to directing, Miranda Bailey learned from the best, having worked with award-winning directors, including Daniels’, Mike Birbiglia, Oren Moverman, Lake Bell, and Marielle Heller.

 

Bailey’s first cinematic directorial debut was GREENLIT – a comedic documentary looking at the inherent hypocrisies surrounding Hollywood when trying to "green" a film set – which debuted at SXSW in 2010, and was picked up by IFC International and Virgil Films for distribution.

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Venturing into comedy, Bailey wrote and directed the award-winning short, ANOTHER HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, which was picked up for distribution by Mousetrap Films and Film Festival Flix.  ​

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Bailey’s directorial narrative feature debut BEING FRANK, an offbeat family drama/comedy, premiered in the Spotlight Section at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, and was theatrically released June 2019. Bailey did an uncredited director’s rewrite, incorporating her own life experiences of having discovered certain secrets about her own father. She assembled a decorated cast, including Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer and New York Times best-selling author Jim Gaffigan, two-time Emmy-winning actress Anna Gunn, Samantha Mathis and Logan Miller.

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For her second documentary, THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST, Bailey spent seven years following one of the world’s most controversial people, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who laid claim to vaccines creating autism in children. The documentary premiered on April 20, 2017 at the Manhattan Film Festival as the opening night film and won Best Documentary Feature. It played at the 2017 Downtown LA Film Festival and Bailey won Best Director - Documentary Feature. 

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Bailey's next project, BUMPIN' INTO STARDOM, is a romantic comedy written by Naomi Odes Aytur and herself set to shoot in Los Angeles this Summer 2025.

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Bailey is represented by Range Media Partners.