Claudia Weill

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her films Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, and the romance It's My Turn (1980), starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin. Her film The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir was nominated for an Academy Award. Weill also worked as a camerawoman and documentarist before becoming a director. More recently, Weill directed episodes of Once and Again, Chicago Hope, My So-Called Life, Caroline in the City, and thirtysomething. She recently directed the West Coast debut of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Doubt.

Weill comes from a talented family - her cousin was the composer Kurt Weill, famous for such works as The Threepenny Opera, which contained the popular song "Mack the Knife".

She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.