Michal Sinnott is an award winning, classically trained actor, writer, producer, director, and storyteller whose work in film, television, theatre, audio spaces, & games traverses mediums, genres, & locales. Her first narrative feature, 'Unpacking,’ as a co-writer, co-director, and producer streams on AmazonPrime & Tubi after screening 25 festivals globally (including Cinequest, Sedona International, & Cyprus International) and winning 17 awards (including Best Actress for Michal, Best of the Fest, Best Ensemble, Audience Choice, Best Director, & Best Narrative Feature). She’s appeared in dozens of plays and over fifty principal/starring roles for radio, television and film, including companies/institutions as diverse as ABC, Sundance and The Whitney Museum of American Art. A proud member of SAG-Aftra and Equity, she’s best known as the voice, likeness and performance capture artist for Tracey De Santa, one of the main characters in the billion dollar phenomena Grand Theft Auto V. Her stage plays have received staged readings and awards in Virginia (Theater Virginia) and Los Angeles (The Blank Theatre). She's in development on seven projects as a writer-producer through her production company, Effusive Films, including 'Anxiety Monster & Man Child Make Amends,' a meta scripted comedy series about the worst period of her life, and a narrative feature, 'The Universe(s) of Us,’ (formally ‘Born That Way’), a magical realist multiverse love story.  On ’The Universe(s) of Us’ she was the lead Producer on the Tanzania unit of production that shot drone footage with the Maasai. ‘The Universe(s) of Us’ was a Sundance Screenwriting Lab second rounder, top 15% for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and a recipient of Big Vision Empty Wallet’s Kickstart Diversity Program. After splitting her time between Los Angeles and New York City for most of her adult life, she recently relocated to the mountains of Virginia with her husband (and frequent writing collaborator) Joseph so that they could make more time for filmmaking and their creative life. Effusive Films shot their first feature ‘YOYOs’ (‘You’re On Your Own’), a political comedy, with Patrick Duffy (Dallas, Step By Step) and Linda Purl (Happy Days, The Office), & seven tweens in summer of 2025 and is currently in late Post. A former flight attendant and three time cancer survivor, she’s traveled to thirty+ countries on six continents. She’s a dual citizen to both the U.S. and Ireland / the E.U.