Claudia Weill

[1] In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2] 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.Weill began directing TV episodes of The Twilight Zone, Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Once and Again, Chicago Hope, and numerous pilots.As 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.She directed The Belle of Belfast by Nate Rufus Edelman at EST and the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, 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.
Harvard UniversityGirlfriendsMelanie MayronChristopher GuestBob BalabanEli WallachLibrary of CongressNational Film RegistryIt's My TurnJill ClayburghMichael DouglasCharles GrodinSesame StreetShirley MacLaineThe Twilight ZoneThirtysomethingMy So-Called LifeOnce and AgainChicago HopePublic TheaterJohn Patrick ShanleyBathsheba DoranSupersistersWarner BrothersColumbia PicturesRay StarkElvis MitchellNashville Film FestivalDirectors Guild of AmericaAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesDorothy ArznerIda LupinoHe's Way More Famous Than You