Candice Fox is a writer, filmmaker, and performer based in NYC, but mostly, she’s just an over-caffeinated storyteller with too many tabs open. Her short films have popped up at fancy festivals like the New York Movie Awards and the Paris Film Awards (which sounds très chic, right?).
When she’s not wrangling film projects, she’s writing personal essays that live on Medium’s biggest mental health platform, Invisible Illness, where she overshares for the greater good. In 2022, she published Mental Maps, a little collection of poetry that probably made her teenage emo self very proud. She also wrote a play that made it all the way to the Los Angeles Fringe Festival in 2016 - no big deal.
Most recently, she took the stage in NYC to perform her one-woman show, Cheers, Mom! Eulogy For A Living Parent, at the Days of the Dead Festival, because why not turn family trauma into a theatrical event?
Her work dives headfirst into addiction, messy family dynamics, and the beautifully chaotic tangle of human relationships. Basically, if it’s deep, dark, and painfully real, she’s into it.