Nancy Pop
Nancy Pop

Nancy Pop is an award-winning actress, director, and producer based in New York, creating bold, character-driven work across film, theater, emerging media, and voiceover. With over a decade of experience as both a performer and filmmaker, she brings a distinctive perspective to storytelling - one that blends humor, vulnerability, grit, and a touch of the surreal.

Originally from Romania and raised in Pennsylvania and Arkansas, Nancy earned her BA in Theatre Performance and Playwriting from Marymount Manhattan College. Her background as an actor and theater artist remains central to her work behind the camera, informing her collaborative approach and deep connection to performance, character, and the human contradictions that make stories worth telling.

As an in-house producer and director for In Case You Missed It, Nancy leads the creation of commercials, branded content, documentaries, and narrative projects for global brands and independent artists alike. She made her feature directorial debut with Poets Are The Destroyers, which won Best Feature at the 2022 QueerX Film Festival and is currently streaming on RevryTV. Her recent directorial work includes vertical microdramas for DramaBox, SaltyTV, and Interactive Films - an increasingly prolific corner of her career she has affectionately dubbed Spielbertical - as well as three upcoming vertical microdramas created in collaboration with Dhar Mann Studios and Fox Entertainment, scheduled for release in November 2026.

Nancy's work in live performance continues to inform her creative practice. She recently associate directed POSERCORPSE by Bug Johnson at The Tank and produced Connecting Dot: A Kindred Revue at The Green Room 42, further developing her collaborative practice and work with actors both on and off camera.

As an actress, her recent credits include Lovely Boy, the award-winning Remnants of Nova, and the audio drama Burning Gotham, a Tribeca Audio Official Selection, along with stage work with the New York Theater Festival and TheaterLab NYC.

A member of New York’s BAMF Filmshop chapter, Nancy is currently writing her first feature-length screenplay, Cowboy Dracula, a Balkan road-trip comedy set on Christmas Eve. She is starring in Michael Goldburg’s upcoming short film Start Anywhere as Emilia, a Romanian-born aspiring writer whose perceptive, unconventional outlook challenges a burned-out professor to reconsider the creative ambitions he has all but abandoned. She is also in pre-production on Rabbit Hole, a surreal Halloween-night descent through New York City, in which she stars as Zoey, the glamorous and emotionally volatile young woman whose disappearance sends her two friends spiraling through the city’s bars, streets, and sketchy after-parties.

Nancy calls New York City home and is the co-host of Artists & Beers, a Brooklyn-based monthly film festival and creative community spotlighting independent filmmakers. Across every medium, Nancy is drawn to stories that are raw, darkly funny, emotionally grounded, and deeply human. In her free time, she enjoys jogging in cemeteries, hosting dinner parties, and learning how to ride motorcycles.

 
 
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