Mesha grew up in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury, a child of free-love, steeped in counterculture and the arts. After graduating from N.Y.U.'s Experimental Theater Wing, she started her professional career creating avant-garde performance-art installations in N.Y.C. When she moved to L.A. she was hunting for a commercial outlet for her experimental antics. So, naturally Mesha started as an assistant to director Dennis Dugan on Adam Sandler movies. When she pivoted to working with choreographers Rich + Tone (J. Lo, Madonna..) it brought her back to her love of dance.

In 2008 she founded a dance company focused on transforming pools around L.A. into installation performance spaces. Aqualillies has since become an international water ballet phenomenon collaborating with Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Missy Elliott, Lizzo, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Usher, Glee, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel... and pushing her work from stage to screen. Working with the Coen Brothers to create the epic water ballet scene starring Scarlett Johansson for their feature film Hail, Caesar! brought Mesha to the ultimate culmination of her passions: directing for film.

Her work on screen recalls ‘a feminist Busby Berkeley’, reclaiming the body in new spectacles that feed today’s ravenous shame-free audience.