Who is Meera Menon? Director To Helm Episodes Of Ms Marvel

Who is Meera Menon? Netizens are curious to know, as the Ms. Marvel ensemble of directors is revealed. Meera Menon will now be directing Ms. Marvel along with Bad Boys For Life duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Ms. Marvel is an upcoming series, revolving around  Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American teen. Kamala Khan's character was the first-ever Muslim hero in Marvel, breaking ground back in 2014. She was the first Muslim character to star in her own title. However, Kevin Faige, Chief Of Marvel Studios stated that in addition to appearing in the series, Kamala Khan will also be included in future Marvel films on the big screens. The search for an actor to play the same is still on. Kamala Khan's character will play a Pakistani American living in an orthodox family in New Jersey, trying to pave her own path.

To helm this series, Marvel Studios has created an excellent ensemble of directors including the brilliant duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Two-time Oscar winner in the docu-short category Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Meera Menon.

Meera Menon is well known for her debut movie Farah Goes Bang, which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize. She has also helped direct/write single episodes on various series including Outlander and The Walking Dead. Here's all you need to know about Meera Menon.

Who is Meera Menon? Indian Origin Director To Helm Ms.Marvel

Meera Menon is an Indian–American director, writer, and editor, who is currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is said to have been inspired to take up filmmaking, early on in life, by her father Vijayan Menon, a film producer and a founder of Tara Arts, a cultural center that showcases musicals and films. She won the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize for her feature directorial debut, Farah Goes Bang, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013.

Meera Menon has a BA in English and Art History from Columbia University, along with some filmmaking classes. She went on to receive a Master Of Fine Arts from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. While at Columbia, she took up filmmaking as a hobby which later on grew into a career. She also works as an editor for Larry King Now and does freelance camera work and art direction. She directed the female-driven Wall Street drama Equity in 2015, which was screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Meera Menon is well known for her direction in Outlander, The Walking Dead. Before she bagged Ms. Marvel, she worked on various other series, directing one or 2 episodes for the same. The Magicians (4), Titans, Glow, The Man in High Castle in 2018, The Punisher, The Walking Dead, The: Infamy, You and Outlander in 2019, Dirty John in 2020, and 2 episodes for For All Mankind in 2021.

“The best advice I’ve received is to stay focused on the long game, and realize it is okay to not have all the right answers —  that’s why you should surround yourself with people you trust and can learn from,” Menon has stated in an interview.

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