N.B. Mager
NB Mager is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who makes high-concept stories about the things that keep her up at night.
She was recently named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch for 2026.
Her first feature, RUN AMOK, starring Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Elizabeth Marvel, Molly Ringwald, Yul Vasques, Bill Camp, and newcomer Alyssa Marvin, recently completed production.
Other works include the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film, RUN AMOK (on which the feature is based), which premiered as a Vimeo Staff Pick. The screenplay for RUN AMOK was a quarterfinalist for the Academy Nicholl and FinalDraft Big Break prizes.
Her web anthology series, QUARANTINE, I LOVE YOU took part in the Beyond Film program of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and starred Ali Wentworth, Denis O’Hare, Michael Chernus, Maria Dizzia, and Jay O. Sanders, among others.
Her short films have screened and garnered awards at film festivals across the country, as well as Gotham Film Week, and have won awards from the National Board of Review and New York Women in Film and Television. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Panavision.
NB also directed a short documentary film on Gloria Steinem, for which she interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Formerly an actor, NB trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and at Rutgers University. She brings her passion and respect for the craft of acting to her work as a writer-director.
