Nicole Mejia is a Los Angeles-based actor, director, writer and producer. She is the inaugural directing fellow for the Adelante Lab, a television shadowing fellowship created by the Latinx House in partnership with Netflix, Sundance and Shondaland. She is a finalist on HBO's Project Greenlight with Issa Rae. Her first feature 'A Place in the Field' was picked up for theatrical distribution by Lionsgate and Grindstone in 2023. Nicole's short film, 'Mancha' was awarded the LALIFF/Netflix Fellowship and premiered in June of 2022. Her AFI thesis film 'My Life Stopped at 15', based on her personal story of healing from sexual abuse, won the ASC Heritage award and is in competition at Camerimage 2022. She was recently a finalist for the WB and NBC television directing fellowships. Originally from Honduras, she is the first in her family to hold a BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts as well as an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute where she was awarded the Audi Fellowship for Women and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award for excellence in directing.