Michelle is a New York based filmmaker, actor, movement specialist, and acting coach. Her films have been shown at Slamdance Film Festival (Grand Jury Honorable Mention), SXSW, AFI Film Festival, New Orleans, PalmSpringsShortfest, Nashville Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Flickers RIFF, as well as having work featured onShort of the Week,NoBudge,The Bureau of Creative Works, and theSlamdance Channel. In 2021, she was named among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent film.

Her most recent film, CLARITIES, is a silent short film commissioned in partnership with Boykin Curry and exhibited at Isabella Rosellini’s MAMA FARM. Her feature film script, SALES PER HOUR, an expansion of her short film which premiered at SXSW in 2021 has been supported by Sundance Catalyst, the Gotham Film Market, and the Sundance Producer’s Lab. 

She received her acting training at the Meisner Studio at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, and her movement training from Nathan Flower and Julia Crockett. Uranowitz now serves as an Instructor of Movement on the faculty at Tisch Open Arts Studio and HB Studio. She has also taught at The New School, The Terry Knickerbocker Studio, and the Maggie Flannigan Studio. 

Uranowitz also offers private one-on-one coaching and teaches all level drop-in movement classes at 100 Grand in Soho. The classes are 90-minute group classes designed to help people build a rich physical vocabulary that strengthens their artistic instrument and empowers them to be more fearless, expansive, and playful in their creative work.

For more information, please email michelleuranowitz@gmail.com. Or sign up for a class here.

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