DIRECTING
Simone has also begun to explore video directing, directing a mockumentary style short film, Parental Guidance, with the RIYAAZ Film Company, and a music video style short for her college dance team, NYU Dillagi, based on The Great Gatsby.
In 2019, Simone directed the play, Private Lives, by Noël Coward, as part of a festival showcase of plays at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School where she completed a directing program through NYU Tisch. Simone researched, developed, produced, directed and choreographed the production, from casting to leading designers and departments, to working closely with the actors of the play.
Simone recently wrote, directed, acted in and edited a sketch comedy, When People Don’t Know Your Country. The short film received a positive reaction from audiences on both YouTube and Instagram.