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Mirra Bank is an award-winning director who works in both film and theater. Her Last Dance, on a stormy collaboration between the audacious modern dance company, Pilobolus, and legendary author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, was short-listed for an Academy Award in 2002, and won numerous awards on the festival circuit. Her Nobody's Girls, about minority women in the Old West, was a primetime PBS special. Bank's independent feature, Enormous Changes, starring Ellen Barkin and Kevin Bacon, premiered at Sundance and went on to a critically praised theatrical release. Bank's television work appears on PBS and The Sundance Channel; she has been honored with awards and production support from, among others, CPB, PBS, NEA, NEH, NYSCA, NYFA, AFI Film Institute & the NFJC. Bank is a member of the Actors Studio, and has co-run the Playwrights & Directors Unit there with Academy Award winning actress, Estelle Parsons. She is currently directing A Way Home about the passion for American baseball in a remote and troubled corner of India.