Claudia Weill

Who is Claudia Weill?

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends, starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Bros after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. It's My Turn, 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 The Other Half of the Sky: 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.

After moving to LA in 1986, Weill began directing episodic - Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Once and Again, Chicago Hope, and numerous pilots. Most recently, she has been directing Girls for HBO.

Originally a theatre director, 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.