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Kat Coiro

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Guest Artist, Theatre

About Kat

Kat Coiro is an award-winning director, producer and EP. Her 2022 Universal Pictures film Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson and Maluma, was simultaneously #1 in theaters and #1 on streaming. She directed the pilots for the upcoming Marvel series She-Hulk (which she also EP'd), Tina Fey's Girls5Eva (co-executive producer) and Florida Girls. Before becoming a pilot and studio-film director, Coiro worked on many episodic shows, including Dead To Me, Shameless, and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. She got her start writing, directing and producing micro-budget indies, including 2013 festival favorite and while we were here, which she shot in Italy in 11 days for 150k, while 8 months pregnant. Coiro trained in the theater at Moscow Arts Theater in Russia, Carnegie Mellon University and, briefly, as a fellow in the MFA program at AFI. She was born in New York, lived in Miami, and went to boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy, where she teaches during the summer. She has three children.