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{{Infobox person
| name = Claudia Weill
| birth_date = 1947
| birth_place = New York, USA
| education = Harvard University
| occupation = Director
}}

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. It's My Turn (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director.

Earlier work includes 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably A China Memoir, a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS.

In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Weill's name and picture.[1]

Biography

Born to a Jewish family,[2] Weill moved to Los Angeles in 1986. She began directing TV episodes of Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Once and Again, Chicago Hope, and numerous pilots. Most recently, she has been directing Girls for HBO.

Originally a theater director (Williamstown, The O’Neill, Sundance, ACT, Empty Space and in New York at MTC, the Public, and Circle Rep), she won the Drama Desk's Best Director Award for the premiere of Donald Margulies’ Found a Peanut produced by Joe Papp at the Public Theater in 1984.

More recently she directed The Belle of Belfast by Nate Rufus Edelman at EST, Twelfth Night for Antaeus, the West Coast Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (with Linda Hunt) at the Pasadena Playhouse, Memory House, End Days, Tape, numerous workshops of Modern Orthodox, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie (Goldfarb), The Parents' Evening by Bathsheba Doran at the Vineyard Playhouse, and Huck and Holden by Rajiv Joseph at the Black Dahlia, among others.

Weill has guest-taught directing for film, television and/or theater at Harvard, NYU, Juilliard, and Cal Arts and is currently teaching TV directing at Columbia. Previously she was a professor at USC in the School of Cinema. She mentors playwrights and directors.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1969.[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web|last=Wulf |first=Steve |url=http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/12535055/original-roster |title=Supersisters: Original Roster |publisher=Espn.go.com |date=2015-03-23 |accessdate=2015-06-04}}
2. ^[https://www.ica.art/bulletin/about-girlfriends-jemma-desai-conversation-claudia-weill ICA: "About Girlfriends: Jemma Desai in conversation with Claudia Weill" by Jemma Desai] 17 Apr 2014
3. ^{{cite news|last1=Dooley|first1=Megan|title=From Big Screen to Small Stage, Claudia Weill Keeps it Real|url=https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2009/08/13/big-screen-small-stage-claudia-weill-keeps-it-real|accessdate=1 February 2018|publisher=The Vineyard Gazette|date=August 14, 2009}}

External links

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