Kat Coiro

Kat Coiro is an American director who moved from micro-budget independent filmmaking into studio comedies and television. Born in Manhattan, she studied theater and Russian history at Carnegie Mellon University, then directing at the Moscow Art Theatre before moving to Los Angeles to make films. Her early features were the independent movies L!fe Happens (2011) and And While We Were Here (2012), the latter shot in Italy and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She went on to direct the Universal romantic comedy Marry Me (2022) and You, Me & Tuscany (2026), filmed in Tuscany. In television she directed and executive produced pilots including the CBS reboot of Matlock and The Spiderwick Chronicles, whose premiere episode earned her a Directors Guild of America nomination. Her episodic work includes Modern Family, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Dead to Me, and she has also acted in series such as Charmed.