Molly Powers Gallagher
Actor & Writer
Screenplays & Pilots
The Relative History of Hanna Malley
(feature)
Derailed by her single mother’s terminal heart failure, a young Korean adoptee inadvertently discovers she has an Asian American deadbeat dad she never knew and embarks on an impromptu road trip to find him.
Athena Film Festival Screenwriting Lab Winner
Academy Nicholl Fellowship (Top 15%)
Austin Film Festival (2nd Rounder/Top 20%)
Sundance Development Track (2nd Rounder)
btw, i miss you (feature)
A dramedy set in the Ocean City, New Jersey off season where the four Whitty siblings annually convene for Dead Mom Weekend. Each grapples with the haunting question: Who could I have been if my mother hadn’t killed herself 23 years ago? (It’s also funny. Really and truly!)
Austin Film Festival (2nd Rounder/Top 20%)
Town Stages Creative Fellowship
SPACE at Ryder Farm (Semi-Finalist)
The Left Behinds (pilot)
After a mass school shooting put the tight-knit, small town Pennington, Pennsylvania on the map, those left behind grapple with the legacy of their past while trying to define a new identity for the future. Non-linear Limited Series.
SPACE at Ryder Farm (Finalist)
Plus One
(pilot)
PLUS ONE is the story of Korean Adoptee MK Flannigan who is figuring out her LOVE life while juggling her WORK life as an aspiring costume designer in NYC and her FAMILY life as she, with her Irish American family, tries to keep Flanningan's, their famous-yet-floundering Philadelphia Main Line bridal shop, afloat.
exception(al)
(short)
When her film professor extends unwanted attention toward her, a young Asian American student grapples with what it means to be the only woman of color in her class.
Directed by Michelle Bossy
Featuring Sandy Bainum, Graham Campbell, Viveca Chow, Jesse Epstein, Molly Powers Gallagher & Jeffrey Grover
Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival (2025)
Type A
(short)
Hui-Shan & Molly live parallel lives as actors in New York City, but couldn't be more different. From their headshots, they are seemingly the same "type." But when that type has no definition except the stereotypical Asian with a Capital A, will they ever be seen more than Type A?
Directed by Emily Hartford
Featuring Molly Powers Gallagher, Hui-Shan Yong, Alisha Spielmann, Emily Hartford & Ned Massey
Woods Hole Film Festival (premiere, 2021), Adirondack Film Festival (2021), NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival (2022), Kansas City FilmFest International (2022), Bridgeport Film Festival (2022), Twin Cities Film Fest (2022)
eyeballs
(short)
Cara, Dev, and Nadine are classmates, but they’ve never actually met each other. It’s the height of the 2020 lockdown, and their teacher has the audacity to assign a group project over Zoom on the theme “connection.” Will these three very different strangers find common ground and a way to connect?
Directed by Robert Thaxton-Stevenson
Featuring Ola Pater, Zack Palomo, Molly Powers Gallagher, Aurea Tomeski & Victoria Finney
NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival (premiere, 2023)