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Rising Artist’s Founder and Managing Director
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Meissa Hampton is an awarded Actor, Writer, Filmmaker and Activist. She is an Artist in Residence at MIT in Cambridge, Mass with the Media Lab. Her film performances have won over a dozen ‘Best Actor’ awards from National and International festivals. She is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and New York Women in Film and Television. She has been an activist for gender equity in Media throughout her career and is the Founder of the Actors Alliance for Gender Equity in Media. She has been interviewed by international publications and as a writer for the Guardian, her feature editorial helped move the dial on the #MeToo Movement. She is a founding member of The Indies Lab and the Urban Artists Collective in NYC. She founded and operates A Social Cure, Inc., a non-profit organization developing outreach programs for civic-minded media. She is Founder and Managing Director of One Pair of Shoes Pictures, a production company founded on visual media’s potential to affect positive social and cultural change. She lectures at conferences and Universities on Film and Women in Media. Specializing in Performance Poetry, Meissa is an awarded and published poet whose work has been celebrated by the American Academy of Poets. She completed her undergraduate film studies under a Ford scholarship before studying acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, then continued scene study, voice work and improv at top NYC studios. She has studied and performed improv with the Upright Citizen’s Brigade. She continued her Film and Theatre studies at Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She expanded from acting and writing to direct her first feature film A Social Cure, which investigates the HIV/AIDS epidemic and our path to a future free from HIV
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Our Teachers
Our experienced and enthusiastic teachers are Film and Theatre professionals with outstanding credits and a particular talent for working with younger artists.
Our team includes seasoned directors who run on camera classes.
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