Career
Musil's career has included journalism, law, documentary film-making and writing. She worked as an on-air radio news director, an attorney with the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and an executive assistant with Sony Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, before pursuing a full-time independent writing and filmmaking career in 1994.
She has served on the Board of Directors for Women in Film/Atlanta, and has won writer's fellowships to the Hambidge Center in Georgia, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, and Centrum Arts in Port Townsend, Washington. The Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Brats Without Borders, Musil currently lives in middle Georgia.
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