Victoria Larimore is an Emmy-nominated writer/producer/director. Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Arclight in Los Angeles, the Smithsonian Museum, Anthology Film Archives and in theatres in Boston, Seattle, Toronto, and abroad. Her TV work has been seen on ABC, A&E, the Discovery Channel, PBS, Turner, Comedy Central, and in more than 20 countries worldwide, including England’s Channel Four, France’s Canal Plus, and Spanish TV. Film credits include the film noir thriller, Room 32, the award-winning The Amish: Not to Be Modern, and An Empty Bed, a New York Times “critics’ pick.” Saying Kaddish, a drama for ABC, was nominated for an Emmy Award and featured Estelle Harris of Seinfeld and Tovah Feldshuh of Law & Order.

Perhaps her most widely known work is The Amish: Not to Be Modern. The film was hailed as “a stunning achievement” by the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe, winning numerous prizes and enjoying prestigious screenings, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institute, before airing on A&E, PBS, National Geographic Explorer, and in more than 20 countries around the world.

In the theatre world, Victoria has directed one-act plays both on Theatre Row in New York City and in Los Angeles. She joined GuerilLA Theatre as director-in-residence, and after directing a successful run of one-acts, 24 Hours AM/PM, the company commissioned her to adapt the plays for television. It was a natural progression, as the originals were written by scribes of classic sitcoms, including M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Bewitched, Get Smart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Facts of Life.  Victoria also directed and produced the film adaptation of Bird/Bear, which won Best New American Play (the Obie Award). Victoria worked closely with legendary avant-garde performance artist Lee Nagrin, a member of Meredith Monk’s company The House, and a La MaMa favorite, who created the work.
 

Victoria’s first foray into playwriting, “Angel Dog,” will be produced in 2010. She has also taught playwriting workshops in the New York Public Schools under the auspices of the Readers Theatre Workshop the production unit of InCollaboration Incorporated, a well-known, award-winning, arts-in-education nonprofit.

Victoria studied directing with the great Wynn Handman of The American Place Theatre, one of the foremost developers and producers of theatrical talent, including actors Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver, and Morgan Freeman, playwrights Sam Shepard and Sylvia Plath, and performance artists/writers (and now successful film and TV actors) Eric Bogosian and John Leguizamo. In fact, Leguizamo developed his groundbreaking one-man show, Mambo Mouth, in Victoria’s class!

Miss Larimore has been awarded numerous grants in the arts, including those bestowed by private foundations as well as by city, state, and federal governments: the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ohio Arts Council, the Staten Island Council on the Arts & Humanities, the Lorain City Council, and the Nordson Foundation and the Stocker Foundation, among others. Her many awards include an Emmy nomination, a CINE Golden Eagle, a Humanitas Award, and the Chris Plaque. Recently, Victoria was honored by the US Government when her film The Amish: Not to Be Modern was selected to be part of a special exhibit of the Library of Congress streamed over the Internet