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Wendey Stanzler

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Born January 1, 1953 · Flint, Michigan, USA

Biography

Wendey Stanzler is an American film editor and television director. She was co-editor and associate producer of Michael Moore's documentary Roger & Me, in 1989. She also co-edited Moore's only fiction film, Canadian Bacon (1993). Stanzler was hired as an editor for Sex and the City and went on to become a guest director during the final season of the series. Stanzler has also edited for the series, Ed and Now and Again and the romantic comedy film Gray Matters (2007), directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Bridget Moynahan. She has directed several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, The Middle and Ugly Betty, all on ABC as well as The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Parks and Recreation among other series. Stanzler was producer and director on the first season of the CW series 90210 in 2008–2009. In 2011, she directed the pilot episode of the ABC Family series The Nine Lives of Chloe King. In 2015, she began directing episodes of You're the Worst in its second season and in the third season, she became a co-executive producer and directed the season's episodes with series creator Stephen Falk. She won the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award twice: in 2004 for the Sex in the City episode "American Girl in Paris, part 2" and in 1990 for Roger & Me. In 2003 and 2004, Stanzler was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her editing work on Sex and the City. Stanzler won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Directing for a Single-Camera Program for the Mysterious Benedict Society.

Filmography50+ titles

The Rookie

2018Director

The Vampire Diaries

2009Director

This Is Us

2016Director

Shameless

2011Director

Gossip Girl

2007Director

Grey's Anatomy

2005Director

Atypical

2017Director

Pretty Little Liars

2010Director

Parks and Recreation

2009Director

Monk

2002Director

Desperate Housewives

2004Director

The Flash

2014Director

For All Mankind

2019Director

Carnival Row

2019Director

Grace and Frankie

2015Director

Gotham

2014Director

Orange Is the New Black

2013Director

Revenge

2011Director

The Middle

2009Director

Mozart in the Jungle

2014Director

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

2013Director

Party Down

2009Director

Private Practice

2007Director

You're the Worst

2014Co-Executive Producer, Director

Sleepy Hollow

2013Director

Switched at Birth

2011Director

Sex and the City

1998Director, Editor

So Help Me Todd

2022Director

GLOW

2017Director

Runaways

2017Director

The Nine Lives of Chloe King

2011Director

Rebel

2021Director

Chasing Life

2014Director

Dollhouse

2009Director

Future Man

2017Director

The Lying Game

2011Director

No Ordinary Family

2010Director

Roger & Me

1989Associate Producer, Editor

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

2019Director

The Tick

2016Director

Clarice

2021Director

Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

2017Director

One Mississippi

2015Director

The Tomorrow People

2013Director

The Fix

2019Director

Arrow

2012Director

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

2012Director

Glee

2009Director

Reverie

2018Director

Nashville

2012Director