Beth McCarthy-Miller
Beth McCarthy-Miller (born September 3, 1963, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American television director.[1] She is best known for directing Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock.[2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Director
4 Awards
5 References
6 Sources
Early life
McCarthy-Miller loved music from an early age. She worked as a DJ during her time in college at the University of Maryland. She majored in radio, television and film and planned to go into news. McCarthy-Miller took an internship at CNN but decided hard news was not for her. Her brother recommended she intern for MTV, which she did after graduating from Maryland.[3]
Career
McCarthy-Miller worked her way up through MTV, taking various jobs including line producer's assistant and assistant director. She began directing in 1988. During her nine years with MTV, she worked on MTV Unplugged with Nirvana, Neil Young, Elton John, Tony Bennett, and k.d. lang.[4]Eventually she began directing for the network and landed on the show The Week in Rock and later The Jon Stewart Show.[3]
She was the director of NBC's Saturday Night Live for eleven years.[5] She left SNL in 2006 at the end of season 31, replaced as director by Don Roy King.[6] She became a director for Viacom's MTV again in 2003 when she directed the MTV Video Music Awards.
She currently works through her own companies, Catalyst Entertainment and McBeth Productions as a director and producer.[citation needed]
Director
- 30 Rock
- America: A Tribute to Heroes
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Californication
- The Colin Quinn Show
- Community
- Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
- Go On
- Great News
- Important Things with Demetri Martin
- In the Motherhood
- The Jon Stewart Show
- Shania Twain: Up! Live in Chicago
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Kids' Choice Awards
- Happy Endings
- House of Lies
- LA to Vegas
- Lip Sync Battle
- Mad Love
- Man Up!
- The Marriage Ref
- Marry Me
Match Game (2016 version)- The Maya Rudolph Show
- The Mindy Project
- Modern Family
- Mr. Sunshine
- MTV Unplugged
- 1996–1999, 2001–2003, 2005 MTV Video Music Awards
- Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education
- Nirvana: Live And Loud
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Parks and Recreation
- People Magazine Awards
- Samantha Who?
- Saturday Night Live
- The Sound of Music Live!
Super Bowl 35 & 38 half-time shows- Taina
- The Kominsky Method
- Trophy Wife
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Up All Night
- Veep
- Work It
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award, nominee 10 times[7]
Daytime Emmy Award, nominee 2008- Cable ACE Awards
Directors Guild of America Award, winner 4 of 12 nominations
References
^ "Beth McCarthy Miller Television Director, Producer". SheMadeIt.org. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (February 22, 2017). "'SNL' Vet Beth McCarthy-Miller to Direct Melissa McCarthy's Fox Pilot 'Amy's Brother' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
^ ab Harrington, Amy. "Foundation Archive: Beth McCarthy-Miller". Television Academy. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
^ Barrett, Pam. ""SNL" director Beth McCarthy Miller to speak at WFU". wfu.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-06-27. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
^ Profile, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com; accessed May 10, 2015.
^ "Saturday Night Live". IMDB.
^ "Beth McCarthy-Miller | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
Sources
Beth McCarthy-Miller on IMDb- Wake Forest University profile: Beth McCarthy
Beth McCarthy-Miller at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
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