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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 Bros 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 thirty 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. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Weill's name and picture. After moving to Los Angeles in 1986, Weill 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 theatre 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 theatre 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. Weill's distant cousin was the composer Kurt Weill, famous for such works as ''The Threepenny Opera'', which contained the popular song "Mack the Knife". She graduated from Harvard University in 1969. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claudia Weill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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