Trisha Ray

Trisha Ray is an independent producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, actor, editor and charcoal artist.

Trisha comes from a family of scholars, physicians and surgeons who followed art and music as a hobby. After retiring as an ObGyn, her grandfather Dr. Bimal Ray wrote three volumes of encyclopedia in Eastern Classical Music which are used by researchers all around the globe. Her parents practiced theatre after coming back from their work. She is the first in her family to actually drop out of college to intern on film sets to learn production. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Bengali languages.

Trisha is the grandniece of BAFTA nominated actress Karuna Banerjee. and niece of Universal Esperanto Association President Probal Dasgupta.

In 2022, Trisha finished the pilot episode of her 8-episode comedy series RECAST starring Lorelei Linklater, Eric Roberts Pooja Batra, San Banarje and Harry S. Murphy, and is currently in production of the season.

Films

From the age of 6, Trisha was a regular at her father's theatre rehearsals and enjoyed reading the lines of missing actors. Although she was expected to follow the footsteps of her family members and become a doctor, she knew she would be happy only if she was writing or pursuing theatre.

During her freshman year, while in California working at a printing press, Trisha used her free time to complete her first feature-length screenplay 'Hola Armando' and decided to quit school to pursue film production. She started interning for different production companies and learned every aspect of film production from being on set as a runner or production assistant, editor's help, demonstrator of new software and technologies at mall showrooms, until she was hired by a television network as an in-house producer.

In winter 2009, Trisha and San wrote a psychological thriller titled ''Bodhisattva'', with the legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee in the title role. Trisha wanted to play the role of Maya, so that she could work with the thespian, but director San Banarje was not convinced by Trisha's performance at the rehearsals and gave her the first day of shoot to prove herself, while looking for other actors to replace her on the second day. Fortunately, her first day of shoot impressed the director and she did not need to get replaced. The entire film was shot in the home of Trisha's mother who stayed in one room with their family pup Kalia until the day's shoot was over.NPR's Bob Stevenson chats with San and Trisha about 'Bodhisattva'

In 2013, she co-wrote the thriller "The Shadow Behind You", with San Banarje. This was followed by the 2013 Fall film 'Artisse' written by Brian Stewart, that she directed. In winter 2013, she co-produced, and edited the dramedy 'Sex, Marriage and Infidelity' for debutante director-writer Richard Finger, starring actors Charlie O'Connell, Shannon Tweed, and her daughter with Gene Simmons, Sophie Simmons. All three films were released in 2014.

In 2015, Trisha co-wrote the feature ''A Curry on an American Plate'' with the film's director San Banarje. The film starred Rick Fox, Charlie O'Connell and Andrea Guasch.

In 2018 and 2019, Trisha wrote and directed the thriller '6 Rounds of Chloe' with actress and activist Kamala Lopez and San Banarje in lead roles, and talented child actress Alexandra Goel in the title role of Chloe. Actor Eric Roberts was cast in the role of oncologist Dr. Bing.

In 2020, Trisha and San started their comedy series RECAST. The show, that was to shoot in Los Angeles, had to be delayed due to coronavirus, and filming started in November 2020 in Houston.

Filmography

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American film directors
American women film directors
Living people
American women screenwriters
American Hindus
American people of Indian descent
Spanish-language film directors
English-language film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women