About Mallorie
Mallorie Ortega is a writer, director, and producer best known for musical feature film The Girl Who Left Home. The film won Best Picture, Best Director, Emerging Filmmaker Award among others during its festival circuit in 2020. The Girl Who Left Home is now available on AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu, dish, and more.
She completed the Television Academy Foundation Directing Program in 2016, shadowing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, and Hairspray Live. Mallorie completed Aaron Kaplan’s First Jobs Program in 2017, hired as the Assistant Line Producer on his TV Pilot titled Charlie Foxtrot. She was a finalist of the Disney | ABC Directing Fellowship of 2018, and was a Fellow in the Spring 2020 cohort of the THEatre ACCELERATOR. There she developed The Girl Who Left Home as a staged musical under the mentorship of the Tony Awards winning Broadway Producers responsible for An American in Paris and Memphis. She recently completed two years of the Rideback Rise Writer Circle Program, founded by Dan Lin.
Mallorie is a double Trojan USC alum, earning her MFA in Film and TV Production from the School of Cinematic Arts in 2016 and earning her Executive MBA from the Marshall School of Business in 2024. She attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for her undergraduate degree as a Linehan Scholar and Imaging Research Center Fellow, earning dual BAs in Cinematic Arts and Theatre Design and Production.
Currently, Mallorie serves as a Board Member and Vice President for Filipinx filmmaker collective Cinema Sala, and is repped by LBI Entertainment.
CURRENT Favorite CITY
Hoi An, Vietnam
DATE VISITED
October 17, 2023
HIGHLIGHTS
First time in Vietnam
Took an 18 hour train from Ho Chi Minh
Fell in love with every stray dog
Rode a scooter everywhere I went
