Gail Mancuso
{{short description|American film and television director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Gail Mancuso
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| birth_name = Gail Susan Mancuso
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|07|14}}
| birth_place = Melrose Park, Illinois, U.S.
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| other_names = Gail Mancuso Cordray
| years_active = 1984–present
| known_for = Roseanne, 30 Rock, Modern Family
| occupation = Film and television director
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Gail Susan Mancuso (born July 14, 1958birth check per intelius.com) is an American film and television director.
Early life and career
Mancuso grew up in Melrose Park, Illinois. She is married to Brian Downs, a doctor, and divides her time between her homes in Valencia, California and River Forest, Illinois.{{cite web|last=Dooley|first=Megan|title=TV director has real 'Modern Family' in River Forest|url=http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/09-06-2011/TV_director_has_real_%27Modern_Family%27_in_River_Forest|work=Wednesday Journal|access-date=February 29, 2012|date=September 6, 2011}}
Mancuso began her career as an usher of the set of several television talk shows. Later, became a script supervisor for the Showtime comedy Brothers. In 1989, she began serving as associate director for Roseanne. After one of the show's directors left in 1991, she had the chance to become one of the main directors and continued until the show's eighth season. She went on to direct episodes of many television series like Friends, Dharma and Greg and Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.
In 2007, Mancuso began working on the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement. She has also directed episodes of 30 Rock and Scrubs. In 2008, she won a Gracie Award for her work on 30 Rock.{{cite web|title=2008 Gracie Awards® Winners|url=http://www.thegracies.org/2008-grace-awards.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226081546/http://thegracies.org/2008-grace-awards.php|archive-date=February 26, 2012|access-date=February 29, 2012|publisher=Alliance for Women in Media}}
In 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her Modern Family episode "Slow Down Your Neighbors". In 2012, she directed Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in the pilot episode of Downwardly Mobile which was commissioned by NBC, but ultimately not picked up. In 2013, she won the Emmy Award for directing episode "Arrested" on Modern Family. In 2014, she won the Emmy Award for directing episode "Las Vegas" on Modern Family.
In 2019, Mancuso made her feature film directorial debut with A Dog's Journey{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/gail-mancuso-on-why-her-feature-directorial-debut-had-to-be-a-dogs-journey/|title=Gail Mancuso on Why Her Feature Directorial Debut Had to Be 'A Dog's Journey|work=The Wrap|first=Beatrice|last=Verhoeven|date=May 20, 2019|access-date=October 29, 2020}} which was the sequel to 2017's A Dog's Purpose directed by Lasse Hallström.
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1984–1988
| rowspan="3" |Script Supervisor |46 episodes from 1984 to 1986 |
| 1987–1990
|"First Day at School" (1988) |
| 1988–1989
|13 episodes from 1988 |
| 1988–2018
|Director |54 episodes from 1991 to 2018 |
| 1989
|Script Supervisor |"Pilot" |
| 1991–1994
| rowspan="76" |Director |"The Herm from Ipanema" (1994) |
| 1992–1993
|4 episodes from 1992 to 1993 |
| 1993
|"Mind If I Smoke?" (1993) |
| 1993–1999
|6 episodes from 1994 |
| 1994
|"East Side Story" (1994) |
| 1994–1998
|7 episodes from 1997 to 1998 |
| 1994–1999
|14 episodes from 1995 to 1999 |
| 1995
|2 episodes from 1995 |
| rowspan="2" |1995–1996
|"Football Story" (1995) |
| Almost Perfect
|2 episodes from 1995 |
| 1995–1998
|2 episodes from 1997 |
| 1996
|"Here a Case Where Thomas Wolfe Was Wrong" (1996) |
| rowspan="3" |1996–1997
|unknown episodes |
| The Single Guy
|"Vegas Finale" (1997) |
| Ink
|"The Debutante" (1997) |
| 1996–2000
|2 episodes from 1997 |
| 1996–2003
|2 episodes from 1996 |
| 1997
|2 episodes from 1997 |
| 1998–2001
|Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place |7 episodes from 1999 to 2001 |
| 1997–2002
|28 episodes from 1997 to 2001 |
| 1997–2003
|"In the Company of Maya" (1998) |
| rowspan="2" |1998
|1973 |TV movie |
| Conrad Bloom
|2 episodes from 1998 |
| 1998–2000
|"Touched by an Angel" (1999) |
| 1998–2004
|9 episodes from 2001 to 2003 |
| 1998–2007
|"Cello, Goodbye" (1998) |
| 1999
|Square One |unknown episodes |
| rowspan="2" |1999–2001
|Norm |also known as The Norm Show "My Name Is Norm" (1999) |
| Ladies Man
|2 episodes from 1999 to 2000 |
| 1999–2000
|5 episodes from 1999 to 2000 |
| 2000
|"Then Came the Monthiversary" |
| 2000–2001
|also known as Cursed 2 episodes from 2001 |
| 2000–2006
|3 episodes from 2000 to 2001 |
| 2000–2007
|5 episodes from 2001 to 2003 |
| 2001
|"One Angry Man" (2001) |
| rowspan="2" |2001–2002
|4 episodes from 2001 |
| Inside Schwartz
|3 episodes from 2001 |
| 2001–2007
|Reba |7 episodes from 2001 to 2003 |
| 2001–2010
|9 episodes from 2002 to 2009 |
| rowspan="2" |2002–2003
|"Married Christmas" |
| Family Affair
|"Space Invaders" (2003) |
| rowspan="2" |2003
|2 episodes from 2003 |
| My Big Fat Greek Life
|3 episodes from 2003 |
| rowspan="4" |2003–2004
|2 episodes from 2004 |
| The Mullets
|7 episodes from 2003 to 2004 |
| Married to the Kellys
|8 episodes from 2003 to 2004 |
| Run of the House
|2 episodes from 2004 |
| 2003–2015
|2 episodes from 2004 |
| 2004
|unknown episodes |
| 2004–2006
|Joey |2 episodes from 2004 |
| 2004–2008
|3 episodes from 2005 |
| rowspan="3" |2005–2006
|"Jake or the Fat Man" (2005) |
| Stacked
|"The Ex-Appeal" (2005) |
| Out of Practice
|"Yours, Mine or His?" (2006) |
| rowspan="2" |2005–2007
|2 episodes from 2005 |
| My Name Is Earl
|"Burn Victim" (2007) |
| rowspan="3" |2006
|Nobody's Watching |TV movie |
| Teachers.
|2 episodes from 2006 |
| Thick and Thin
|unknown episodes |
| 2006–2007
|"The Work Dinner" (2007) |
| rowspan="2" |2006–2008
|"Sink or Swim" (2006) |
| Happy Hour
|2 episodes from 2008 |
| 2006–2013
|8 episodes from 2006 to 2010 |
| rowspan="2" |2007
|The IT Crowd | rowspan="2" |TV movie |
| Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office |
| rowspan="3" |2007–2008
|"No Man Is an Island" (2007) |
| In the Motherhood
|6 episodes from 2008 |
| Cavemen
|"Andy, the Stand-Up" (2008) |
| 2007–2012
|"Chuck Versus the Suitcase" (2010) |
| 2007–2013
|17 episodes from 2007 to 2013 |
| rowspan="2" |2008
|"Needles and Schlag" (2008) |
| Five Year Plan
|TV movie |
| 2008–2009
|"Desire" (2009) |
| 2009
|Hank |"Dog" (2010) |
| rowspan="2" |2009–2010
|"Get Happy" (2009) |
| Accidentally on Purpose
|"It Happened One Christmas" (2009) |
| rowspan="2" |2009–2015
|Director |"English as a Second Language" (2010) |
| Cougar Town
| rowspan="19" |Director |5 episodes from 2009 to 2011 |
| 2009–2018
|"The Floating Anniversary" (2009) |
| 2009–2020
|31 episodes from 2010 to 2020 |
| rowspan="2" |2010–2011
|"Party of Five" (2010) |
| $#*! My Dad Says
|5 episodes from 2010 |
| 2011
|3 episodes from 2011 |
| 2011–2013
|"Big White Lies" (2012) |
| 2011–2014
|"Entering Eden" (2012) |
| 2012
|12 episodes from 2012 |
| rowspan="3" |2012–2013
|"The Fox Hunt" (2012) |
| 1600 Penn
|"Dinner, Bath, Puzzle" (2013) |
| Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
|2 episodes from 2013 |
| 2012
|Downwardly Mobile | rowspan="2" |TV movie |
| 2013
|Adopted |
| 2013–2015
|12 episodes from 2013 to 2015 |
| 2014–2015
|4 episodes from 2014 to 2015 |
| 2014–2022
|2 episodes from 2016 |
| rowspan="3" |2015
|"Pilot" (2015) |
| Happyish
|2 episodes from 2015 |
| Take If from Us
|Director |TV movie |
| 2015–2016
| rowspan="19"|Director |"The Olyphant in the Room" (2016) |
| 2015–2019
|"Kimmy Goes to College!" (2017) |
| 2015
|2 episodes from 2015 |
| 2015
|How We Live | rowspan="2" |TV movie |
| 2016
|The Enforcers |
| 2016–2020
|6 episodes from 2017 to 2020 |
| rowspan="2" |2017–2018
|"Get It, Arthur" (2017) |
| Great News
|"Celebrity Hacking Scandal" (2017) |
| 2018
|So Close |TV movie |
| 2018–2020
|10 episodes from 2019 to 2020 |
| 2019
|Feature Film |
| 2020
|"Everybody's Talking About Dav" (2020) |
| 2021–2023
|4 episodes from 2021 to 2023 |
| rowspan=3|2021
|Episode: "PB&J" |
| Turner & Hooch
|Episode: "In The Line of Fur" |
| The Big Leap
|2 episodes |
| 2023–2024
|16 episodes |
| 2023
|Episode: "Not Out of High School Yet" |
| 2025
|Episode: "Abigail B." |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0541562}}
{{EmmyAward ComedyDirector 2001–2025}}
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Category:American television directors
Category:American women television directors
Category:People from Melrose Park, Illinois
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:Television producers from California
Category:American women television producers
Category:People from Valencia, Santa Clarita, California
Category:People from River Forest, Illinois