
Mel Shimkovitz
Acting
Biography
Mel Shimkovitz is an actress and writer, known for Transparent (2014), SMILF (2017) and Be Here Nowish (2014).
Known For

An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Transparent

A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
SMILF

Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. “The Guy” is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the city.
High Maintenance

Explore the secret life of a woman we all grew up watching: the sitcom wife. The series looks to break television convention and ask what the world looks like through her eyes. Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera zaniness, the formats will inform one another as we imagine what happens when the sitcom wife escapes her confines, and takes the lead in her own life.
Kevin Can F**K Himself

THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming filmmakers. Personal essays, direct actions, explainers - each filmmaker has crafted a segment that explores a theme in TRANSPARENT.
This Is Me

A six-episode docucomedy about the Gold Rush culture of the California weed industry starring the multidimensional Gabriel Sunday.
Dope State

A teenage girl commences her journey of sexual exploration through intercourse with an absolutely irrelevant boy.
Virgin Territory

The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.
A Bad Feeling

A genderqueer widow carries a child using their late wife's embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life.
MA / DDY

Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come

Moroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the U.S. Young, gay, Mormon, and highly educated, he sets out to confront the political establishment in a homecoming that challenges what he both imagined home, and himself, to be.
Moroni for President

A comedian failing at love and jokes finds her way after confronting her ideal version of herself one dark magic evening.
Jo Cool

After a messy breakup, a couple says their final goodbyes.