Claudia Weill

Claudia Weill is a film, television, and theater director. Her feature films include Girlfriends, It’s My Turn with Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas for Columbia Pictures, and The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir with Shirley MacLaine, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Her work in TV includes Thirtysomething (Emmy Award), My So-Called Life, Girls, and Face of a Stranger, for which Gena Rowlands won an Emmy. She has taught film and TV directing at the University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, and Columbia University School of the Arts, among other schools, and currently teaches at New York University’s Graduate School of Film. In 1981, she and Elaine May became the third and fourth women to be admitted to the Academy of Arts and Sciences as directors, after Ida Lupino and Dorothy Arzner.

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