Hannah May Cumming is a writer, director, and producer originally hailing from Liverpool, UK. She is most known for her short horror films Baby Fever (2022) and Fanatico (2019) both of which are platformed on WatchAlter.com, amassing hundreds of thousands of views, as well as her music videos for LA based rock band, VANITY. She is the creator of Monstrous Femme Films, a queer-feminist indie horror production company based in Portland, OR. Her work has screened at several prestigious festivals such as Dances with Films, Screamfest LA, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, FilmQuest, and more, and has won awards such as Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Production Design, and multiple Audience Choice Awards.

Hannah’s work is an amalgamation of queer and feminist horror, camp, and her love of retro design and fashion. She has a knack for creating highly stylized worlds and fascinating, complex female characters. As seen clearly in her films, Hannah is unafraid to take provocative, creative risks within the horror genre, especially when that work is taking a strong socio-political stance.

In 2022, she won the Grand Prize from the Killer Shorts Screenplay competition for the Baby Fever short screenplay, placing 1st out of 1,551 entries. In 2024, the script for Baby Fever was also nominated for Best Screenplay by New Filmmakers LA.

Hannah is based out of both Portland, OR and Los Angeles, CA. She is repped by Justin Edwards and Rob Harrington at 3Arts.