Beth McCarthy-Miller

McCarthy-Miller was born on September 3, 1963, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She has four older brothers and four older sisters.{{Cite web |last=says |first=Vincent Esoldi |date=2017-04-14 |title=Beth McCarthy-Miller [Interview] |url=https://trainwreckdsociety.com/2017/04/14/beth-mccarthy-miller-interview/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=TRAINWRECK'D SOCIETY |language=en}} She was raised in Cranford, New Jersey.https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073135/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=155 She attended the University of Maryland, where she was a DJ and majored in radio, television and film. While in college she interned at CNN and MTV.{{Cite news|url=http://www.emmys.com/news/foundation-archive/foundation-archive-beth-mccarthy-miller|title=Foundation Archive: Beth McCarthy-Miller|last=Harrington|first=Amy|newspaper=Television Academy|access-date=October 17, 2016}}

She is married to a high school teacher, with whom she has a son born around 2006. {{Cite web |last=says |first=Vincent Esoldi |date=2017-04-14 |title=Beth McCarthy-Miller [Interview] |url=https://trainwreckdsociety.com/2017/04/14/beth-mccarthy-miller-interview/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=TRAINWRECK'D SOCIETY |language=en}}

McCarthy-Miller worked as a line producer's assistant and assistant director at MTV and 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.{{cite web|last1=Barrett|first1=Pam|title="SNL" director Beth McCarthy Miller to speak at WFU|url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2003/110403s.html|website=wfu.edu|access-date=January 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627040138/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2003/110403s.html|archive-date=June 27, 2014|url-status=dead}} She worked for The Week in Rock and later The Jon Stewart Show.

She was the director of NBC's Saturday Night Live for eleven years.[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/emmys-watch-beth-mccarthy-miller Profile], artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com; accessed May 10, 2015. She left SNL in 2006 at the end of season 31, replaced as director by Don Roy King.{{cite web|title=Saturday Night Live|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2173702|website=IMDB}} 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|date=May 2015}}

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