ABOUT ANGELA

Angela Garcia Combs is an Award-winning American writer and director, from a Southern Catholic Mexican-Irish family. She penned and directed “Nothing Special” a feature film, which was curated into the Academy’s Permanent Core Collection and features Karen Black in her last starring role. Her work in Film, Theater, Literary Fiction and Non-Fiction has been highly regarded for its unique point of view and skillful craft, earning accolades in publications including the Mississippi Review, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Variety and the Huffington Post. Her latest film "American Dream" about the slings and arrows of the gig work economy is ending it’s festival run (2023) and will be streaming soon.

She studied theatre and film with a concentration in women's studies at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and graduated Magna cum Laude. She optioned her first screenplay "A Better Mother" to Carlton America upon graduating from UCLA and shortly thereafter optioned another, "Random Acts" to Henry Jaglom of Rainbow Films with a deal to direct with RKO.

Angela’s guiding principle – “Story is the blueprint of artistic communication and plumbing the female perspective is an imperative to exploration of the human condition. Great stories, well told, will always have an audience and female protagonists can and must be at the center.”