Beth McCarthy-Miller

Beth McCarthy-Miller (born September 3, 1963, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American television director.^[1]

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.^[2]

Career

McCarthy-Miller worked her way up through MTV, taking various jobs including line producer's assistant and assistant director. Eventually she began directing for the network and landed on the show The Week in Rock and later The Jon Stewart Show.^[2]

She was the director of NBC's Saturday Night Live for eleven years.^[3] She left SNL in 2006 at the end of season 31, replaced as director by Don Roy King.^[4] She became a director for Viacom's MTV again in 2003 when she directed the MTV Video Music Awards.

She started out as an intern at MTV, then worked as an assistant to the line producer and then 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.^[5]

She currently works through her own companies, Catalyst Entertainment and McBeth Productions as a director and producer.

Director

30 Rock
America: A Tribute to Heroes
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Californication
The Colin Quinn Show
Community
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Go On
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
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
Trophy Wife
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Up All Night
Work It
Great News

Awards

Primetime Emmy Award, nominee 9 times
Daytime Emmy Award, nominee 2008
Cable ACE Awards
Directors Guild of America Award, winner 3 of 10 nominations

References

↑ "Beth McCarthy Miller Television Director, Producer". SheMadeIt.org. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
1 2 Harrington, Amy. "Foundation Archive: Beth McCarthy-Miller". Television Academy. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
↑ Profile, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com; accessed May 10, 2015.
↑ "Saturday Night Live". IMDB.
↑ Barrett, Pam. ""SNL" director Beth McCarthy Miller to speak at WFU". wfu.edu. Retrieved January 12, 2015.

Sources

Preceded by Dave Wilson	Saturday Night Live director 1995–2006	Succeeded by Don Roy King

Saturday Night Live

Seasons

History

Related lists

Commercials
Cast members
Writers
Guests
- A–D
- E–H
- I–L
- M–P
- Q–T
- U–Z
Awards
DVD releases
Incidents

Recurring characters
and sketches

Characters
and sketches

Political impersonations	Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Sarah Palin

Digital Shorts

Films based
on sketches

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures (1986)
Bob Roberts (1992)
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Wayne's World (1992)
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Coneheads (1993)
It's Pat (1994)
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Superstar (1999)
The Ladies Man (2000)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Harold (2008)
MacGruber (2010)

Anniversary
Specials

15th (1989)
25th (1999)
40th (2015)

Related topics

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series

1971–1989	John Rich for "All in the Family" (1971) Gene Reynolds for "Pilot" (MASH) (1972) Gene Reynolds for "Deal Me Out" (1973) Hy Averback for "Alcoholics Unanimous" (1974) Hy Averback for "Bombed" (1975) Alan Alda for "Dear Sigmund" (1976) Paul Bogart for "Edith's 50th Birthday" (1977) Paul Bogart for "California, Here We Are" (1978) Paul Bogart for "Too Good Edith" (1979) Noam Pitlik for "Fog" (1980) Alan Alda for "The Life You Save" (1981) Alan Alda for "Where There's a Will, There's a War" (1982) James Burrows for "Showdown: Part II" (1983) Jay Sandrich for "Pilot" (The Cosby Show) (1984) Jay Sandrich for "Pilot" (The Golden Girls) (1985) Terry Hughes for "Isn't It Romantic?" (1986) Will Mackenzie for "'A,' My Name is Alex" (1987) Steve Miner for "Pilot" (The Wonder Years*) (1988) Barnet Kellman for "Brown Like Me" (1989)

1990–2009	James Burrows for "Woody Interruptus" (1990) Peter Bonerz for "Uh Oh: Part II" (1991) Tom Cherones for "The Contest" (1992) James Burrows for "The Good Son" (1993) David Lee for "The Matchmaker" (1994) Gordon Hunt for "The Alan Brady Show" (1995) Andy Ackerman for "The Rye" (1996) Andy Ackerman for "The Betrayal" (1997) Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (Sports Night) (1998) Thomas Schlamme for "Small Town" (1999) James Burrows for "Lows in the Mid-Eighties" (2000) Todd Holland for "Bowling" (2001) Bryan Gordon for "Special Section" (2002) Tim Van Patten for "Boy Interrupted" (2003) Tim Van Patten for "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux" (2004) Marc Buckland for "Pilot" (My Name Is Earl) (2005) Richard Shepard for "Pilot" (Ugly Betty) (2006) Barry Sonnenfeld for "Pie-lette" (2007) Paul Feig for "Dinner Party" (2008) Jason Winer for "Pilot" (Modern Family) (2009)

2010–2029	Michael Spiller for "Halloween" (2010) Robert B. Weide for "Palestinian Chicken" (2011) Lena Dunham for "Pilot" (Girls) (2012) Beth McCarthy-Miller for "Hogcock!" / "Last Lunch" (2013) Jill Soloway for "Best New Girl" (2014) Chris Addison for "Election Night" (2015)

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