About the Project
Emily Nicole Hansen is the female lead you’ve seen way too many times. GRIN AND BEAR IT is a character clown comedy show featuring your favorite female film and television archetypes. But as those familiar tropes begin to unravel, the real woman breaks through the script—yanking the audience along for the rewrite.
Content Warning: This performance includes shapewear.
Emily is an actor, writer, director, producer, and clown with credits on The Blacklist (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), the feature film Experimenter opposite Winona Ryder, and the award-winning short White Lies. Her short film Broad Daylight,—a thriller about a journalist bargaining for her life during a volatile ride-along with a border agent—was an official selection of the Studio City International Film Festival and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Emily is a Founder and Executive Producer of The Cut Off Short Collective, a short film production group with three completed films to date. followingem.com @followingem
Mimi von Schack is a director, comedian, and writer known for her touring solo show, “Women & Things” and for Dropout’s “Make Some Noise.” She currently performs regularly at the UCB theater in LA, directs comedy shows in Los Angeles, and hosts the podcast “Hollywood’s Biggest Podcast.” Mimi recently directed an episode of the much-anticipated lesbian vampire comedy, “Pain in the Neck,” coming to your screen in 2026! Mimivonschack.com @mimi.vonschack
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Production Team
