Megan Griffiths

Megan Griffiths is a writer/director working in film and television. She has directed shows for HBO, EPIX, TNT, Hulu, USA, Fox, Netflix, and served as the producing director for season two of Amazon’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Griffiths recently completed two features: YEAR OF THE FOX, starring Sarah Jeffery, Jane Adams, and Jake Weber, coming out in 2024, and Duplass Brothers Productions’ I’LL SHOW YOU MINE, starring Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown, which was released in June 2023. Prior to this, she wrote and directed SADIE, which premiered at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival and stars Melanie Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, and Tony Hale. She also adapted and directed the thriller THE NIGHT STALKER, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as serial killer Richard Ramirez, which premiered on Lifetime Television. Her film LUCKY THEM starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Griffiths’s film EDEN was a breakout at SXSW 2012, winning the Emergent Narrative Director Award, the Audience Award for Narrative Feature as well as a Special Jury Prize for lead actress Jamie Chung. Griffiths’ feature THE OFF HOURS, distributed by Film Movement, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Griffiths was recently invited to join the director’s branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In her adopted hometown of Seattle, Griffiths was the recipient of the 2012 Stranger Genius Award for Film, was named the 2013 City Arts Film Artist of the Year, and received the 2015 Seattle Mayor’s Award for Film. She serves on the board of Northwest Film Forum and is an active advocate for sustainable production.