
Stories about people who
mean well, unravel anyway,
and hope no one is watching.
Developing the one-hour drama Hancock Park and the YA novel 1986: two character-driven stories about survival, memory, and what we take with us.
Hi, I’m Mihal. I'm a writer drawn to dark humor, damaged hearts, and the sacred mess of being human.​​
I write stories about people on the edge: reinvention, revelation, or completely falling apart. My work lives in the space between identity and survival. It asks what happens when the roles we’ve been assigned no longer fit. As a trained Psychodramatist, I’m drawn to what we hide, what we perform, and what it takes to reclaim who we really are.
Current Projects
1986
(YA Sci-Fi Novel)
Sage is seventeen. So is her dead mother.
Time travel should come with a therapist and a seatbelt. One wrong move could rewrite everything.
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Hancock Park
(1-Hour Drama Pilot)
Dark Comedy | Multicultural Ensemble
Created & Written by Mihal Levy
In Development
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​A dark, character-driven series about three childhood friends tangled in a car insurance scam, an arranged marriage, and the quiet unraveling of who they thought they were. Set in a crumbling triplex in Hancock Park, the show explores loyalty, addiction, identity, and the cost of survival, especially when the roles we play start to feel permanent. Everyone’s hiding something. Some just do it better than others.​
That will haunt me — and stay with me for a long time.
— Amy Klein, author of The Trying Game, on a passage from the Upcoming Novel, 1986
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“I used to think that selflessness was a virtue, but my thoughts have changed. It’s not a virtue at all, but a fear. A fear of being unloved, coupled with the sense of having to pay some sort of price: to be seen, to be loved, and to feel worthy.”


— 1986 —
If you could change your past – would you?
Seventeen-year-old Sage is pulled back to 1986, where she meets the teenage version of the mother she never got to know.
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Dropped into her mother’s chaotic teenage life, Sage quickly realizes nothing about this feels accidental.
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What follows is a surreal unraveling of identity, memory, and the stories we invent to survive the ones we’re born into.
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The deeper Sage goes, the more the past starts to feel like home. And that might be the most dangerous part.
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Behind the Novel
1986 started with a question:
If you could change your past, would you?
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And then the follow-up:
What if you didn’t have a choice?
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What began as a thought experiment turned into a layered, emotional ride through time, memory, and consequence.
I wanted to explore the ripple effect of a single moment, how our histories are shaped not just by what happened, but by what we never understood at the time.
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What happens when a modern teen is forced to survive a version of the past she was never meant to see? What if she’s dropped into the very world that shaped her, without her consent, context, or control?
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1986 isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about disruption. It asks: What if the only way forward… was back? And what if changing one thing changes everything?
— Hancock Park —
Loyalty, survival, and the emotional cost of pretending to be who others need you to be.
​Hancock Park follows Dov, an Orthodox Jewish landlord whose life begins to quietly spiral. He joins a car insurance scam run by two childhood friends: one a relapsing addict, the other a successful attorney trying to outrun his past. The cracks in Dov’s carefully controlled world begin to show.
Things unravel further when Dov falls for a fiercely independent woman who is unknowingly connected to the arranged marriage he's trying to escape.
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Behind its walls live a closeted rabbi, a secret affair, rising desperation, and the quiet moral cost of staying silent.
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A dark, character-driven drama about identity, faith, and what happens when survival depends on keeping up the performance.
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Everyone's hiding something. Some just do it better than others.
Behind the Script
​I’ve lived in L.A. long enough to know the nicest neighborhoods hide the messiest truths.
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Hancock Park started as a love letter to contradictions: faith and fraud, loyalty and addiction, devotion and betrayal. I was thinking about the unspoken rules that govern religious communities, and what happens when the masks we wear in beautiful homes start to crack.
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Dov came to me as a question: What if you did everything “right” and still felt wrong inside?
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I’m drawn to double lives, and to the quiet explosions that come when people can’t hold on to the facade any longer.

About Mihal
Mihal Levy is a Los Angeles–based writer who builds raw, character-driven worlds where psychology, memory, and dark humor collide. With a background in clinical psychology and a trained ear for what’s left unsaid, she writes from the inside out.
Her stories explore trauma, identity, and the quiet violence of survival. Her characters live in the tension between unraveling and becoming. Whether through time travel, twisted relationships, or inherited ghosts, Mihal writes what hurts quietly, and what lingers long after the fade to black.
Alongside her writing career, Mihal teaches courses in Prejudice, Trauma, and Community Mental Health at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Her work has appeared in the Jewish Journal, where she covered culture, events, and a weekly column. She has also been published in Highlights for Children and worked in live-audience television with NBCUniversal and Peter Greenberg of The Today Show. Her background in sketch comedy and improvisation gives her dialogue grit, precision, and emotional snap.
She writes like the unraveling was always the point. Somehow, it still surprises you.



LA Connection
People lie. That's where the story starts.
Mihal Levy writes about people who lie to themselves before they lie to anyone else. Who mean well. Who do damage.
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She writes with a trained ear for what isn’t said. Her characters are layered, volatile, and deeply human, caught in the split second before everything breaks.
They sabotage what they love, deny what they need, and call it growth.
Her stories unfold through subtext, contradiction, and the quiet logic of self-destruction.
Her dialogue doesn’t shout. It reveals.
She understands why someone ruins the thing they need most—and how to make you root for them while they do it.
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