Kat Coiro

Kat Coiro
Born
New York City, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Film director
  • television director
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Notable work
SpouseRhys Coiro
Children3

Kat Coiro is an American film and television director known for directing Marry Me (2022), a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma for Universal Pictures as well as directing and producing CBS' hit show Matlock (2024) starring Kathy Bates. Other shows include Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles, Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Girls5Eva, Florida Girls, and many others.

Early life

Coiro was born in Manhattan to parents Peter Eves and Gina Cunningham-Eves, who are of English and Italian American descent.[1][2] Her sister, Emmy Eves, later became a production designer and worked as an art director on Coiro's first movie, Life Happens.[1] Her godmother, Katharine Kean, co-directed the 1992 documentary Haiti: Killing the Dream with Rudi Stern and starring Jean-Bertrand Aristide.[2] The family moved to Miami Beach, Florida when Coiro was in elementary school to open up a Haitian restaurant called Tap Tap, above which the family lived in an upstairs apartment.[1][2]

In ninth grade, Coiro enrolled in boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy.[2] She taught theater at the University of Miami summer arts camp and studied theater and Russian history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and later studied directing at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia before moving to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking.[2]

Career

Kat Coiro briefly worked as an actress. She appeared in an episode of Charmed (season 5, episode 18) in 2003, in which she starred as a wood nymph. She also appeared on Judging Amy, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent as well as many other shows.

Coiro began her directing career writing, directing and producing micro-budget independent films, including her 2011 debut Life Happens with Krysten Ritter and 2013 festival favorite And While We Were Here, which she shot in Italy in 11 days for $150,000 while pregnant. She later transitioned into television, directing episodes of shows including Dead to Me, Modern Family, Shameless and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She produced and directed the pilot and multiple episodes of the television series Matlock, Girls5eva, Florida Girls, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and directed and executive produced the majority of episodes for the latter series. Her film Marry Me, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma, was released to theaters and streaming in 2022 by Universal Pictures and opened at number one in theaters on Valentine's Day.

Personal life

Coiro is married to actor Rhys Coiro, whom she directed in Life Happens and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. They have three children and a rescue chihuahua.[1] Coiro lives with her family in Los Angeles.[3]

Credits

Television

Year Title Notes Reference(s)
2014 Slouching Towards Adulthood Pilot for NBC based on Sally Koslow's book. [4][5]
2015 Splitting the Difference Pilot for ABC based on Tre Miller Rodriguez's memoir. [6]
2016 Untitled Kat Coiro Pilot for ABC based on growing up above a Haitian Restaurant in Miami Beach. [7][8]
2017 Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce [9]
2017 Alone Together ABC Freeform
2017 The Mick [10]
2017 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2017 Mozart in the Jungle
2018 Sideswiped 2 episodes
2018 Florida Girls Pilot
2018 Daddy Issues Pilot
2018 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2018 Shameless
2018 Modern Family
2018 The Kids Are Alright
2018–2019 Single Parents
2019 Dead to Me
2021 Girls5eva
2022 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 6 episodes; also executive producer. [11]
2024–present The Spiderwick Chronicles 2 episodes; also executive producer [12]
2024 Matlock 3 episodes

Films

Year Title Director Writer Producer
2011 L!fe Happens Yes Yes Co-producer
2012 And While We Were Here Yes Yes Yes
2013 A Case of You Yes No No
2022 Marry Me Yes No No
TBA The Husband's Secret[13] Yes No No
TBA Foreign Relations Yes No No

References

  1. ^ a b c d Staff (February 7, 2019). "Life Happens director Kat Coiro a Miami girl". Miami Herald. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e Guzman, Camille Lamb (April 12, 2012). "L!fe Happens director Kat Coiro grew up at South Beach's Tap Tap". Miami New Times. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  3. ^ "Kat Coiro". Free The Bid. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  4. ^ Nellie Andreeva (November 6, 2012). "NBC Buys Family Comedies From Writers Jeff Lowell And Kat Coiro". Deadline.
  5. ^ "NBC Adapting Sally Koslow's 'Slouching Toward Adulthood'". The Hollywood Reporter. November 5, 2012.
  6. ^ Nellie Andreeva (October 9, 2014). "ABC Buys Mother-Daughter Comedy From Kat Coiro & Eva Longoria". Deadline.
  7. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (September 11, 2015). "ABC Buys Autobiographical Kat Coiro Family Comedy Set In South Beach". Deadline. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Untitled Kat Coiro Comedy - Production & Contact Info | IMDbPro".
  9. ^ "NBC Adapting Sally Koslow's 'Slouching Toward Adulthood'". The Hollywood Reporter. November 5, 2012.
  10. ^ "The Mick" The Fire (TV Episode 2017), retrieved January 12, 2017
  11. ^ Kroll, Justin (September 15, 2020). "Marvel's 'She-Hulk' Series at Disney Plus Lands Kat Coiro As Director And EP". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  12. ^ Adreeva, Nellie (May 11, 2022). "'The Spiderwick Chronicles': Kat Coiro To Direct First Two Episodes Of Disney+ Series". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  13. ^ "Kat Coiro". IMDb. Retrieved May 5, 2023.