Miranda Bailey

Miranda Bailey is an American producer, director and actress who grew up in Vail, Colorado and attended Skidmore College. She started the production company Cold Iron Pictures and produced The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), which earned her an Independent Spirit Award in the Best First Feature category. Her other producing credits include Swiss Army Man (2016), Don't Think Twice (2016), God's Country (2022), The Unknown Country (2022), June Zero (2022), Jazzy (2024) and By Design (2025). She also directed the documentary features Greenlit, on the environmental effects of film production, and The Pathological Optimist, and in 2018 she directed the narrative film Being Frank, which starred Jim Gaffigan. The Cherry Picks, a website for film criticism by female critics, was announced in 2018 and launched in 2019.