Stories about people who mean well, unravel anyway, and hope no one is watching.
Character-driven stories about survival, memory, and what we take with us.
Character-driven stories about people on the edge of reinvention, revelation, or collapse.
With a background in psychology, I’m drawn to what we hide, what we perform, and what it takes to reclaim who we are.
Current Projects
1986
(YA Sci-Fi Novel)
A teenage girl is pulled back to 1986 where she meets the mother she never knew at the same age. 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
A tightly wound landlord in a close-knit religious community is pulled into a car insurance scam with two childhood friends, as a forbidden relationship begins to unravel his carefully controlled life.
— 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.
Dropped into her mother’s chaotic teenage life, Sage quickly realizes nothing about this feels accidental.
What follows is a surreal unraveling of identity, memory, and the stories we invent to survive the ones we’re born into.
The deeper Sage goes, the more the past starts to feel like home. And that might be the most dangerous part.
— 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.
Behind its walls live a closeted rabbi, a secret affair, rising desperation, and the quiet moral cost of staying silent.
A dark, character-driven drama about identity, faith, and what happens when survival depends on keeping up the performance.
Everyone's hiding something. Some just do it better than others.
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.
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