Mitzi gave up fitting in at an early age to write comic books, recreate I Love Lucy hits, and miss every cool party from the age of nine to train 20+ hours a week as a competitive gymnast. Since graduating from UC Davis with honors in creative writing and Japanese, plus a minor in art, she's made a career of her childhood obsessions: writing, drawing, film and backflips.
Now in New York, Mitzi contributes her particular talents and peculiar humor to a variety of projects. The elevated zombie love story Herd in which she stars alongside Ellen Adair and an enviable ensemble (Jeremy Holm, Dana Snyder, Tim V Murphy, Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Fuller), was named one of the best genre films of the year by Fangoria and Yahoo Movies, while the stream-worthy Grand Jury Breakout Feature of Slamdance 2024, Chaperone, has Letterboxd atwitter for her portrayal of a 29-year-old failing to adult. You can find her in award-winning shorts (like The Looming Cloud, as a sibling bickering about how to post about Mom's death on social media, which premiered at Sundance 2024 to rave reviews, or 86'd, a Koch-era late-nite deli story written and directed by Alan Palomo of Neon Indian and shot on film by Safdie Brothers' go-to Sean Price Williams, which premiered at Maryland Film Festival and stars Mitzi alongside Seaton Smith and Buddy Duress), on TV (e.g., as Naomi Scott's undie-entrepreneur bff in Japan's Modern Love or Mamoudou Athie's cheating ex-gf in Archive 81), or in one of dozens of commercials for snack foods, iPads and birth control. To learn more about her, check out her Substack; to find her in person, check the hot sauce aisle or a circus school near you.