Stuart Gillard

Stuart Gillard is a director, writer, producer and actor whose career has spanned three decades. He graduated from the University of Alberta, was one of a dozen people picked for acting training at Montreal's National Theatre School, and then helped start the University of Washington Professional Acting Troupe in Seattle. Acting awards in Canada led to offers in Los Angeles, where he also took up directing and writing. His feature credits as writer and director include If You Could See What I Hear, Paradise, Indigo Autumn, Kart Racer, A Man Called Sarge and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. He directed a dozen Disney films, among them RocketMan and Twitches, and won a Directors Guild of America Award for Going to the Mat, one of three nominations. On television he directed episodes of Beauty and the Beast, 90210, Charmed, Lonesome Dove and One Tree Hill, and the Outer Limits pilot Sandkings, which brought him an ACE award.