Maggie Kiley

Maggie Kiley was one of eight directors selected for AFI's Directing Workshop for Women and one of twenty filmmakers chosen for the Fox Global Directors Initiative. Most recently, Maggie was selected as the first participant in Ryan Murphy Television's Half Mentorship program and subsequently is slated to direct an episode in the upcoming season of Scream Queens on Fox.Maggie's AFI short film, some boys don't leave, played over 50 festivals, garnering awards at Tribeca and Palm Springs. Maggie received the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her debut feature, Brightest Star. The film, starring Chris Lowell, Rose McIver and Allison Janney, was released by Gravitas theatrically and SVOD in early 2014. Her second film, Dial a Prayer, starring Brittany Snow and William H Macy, released in the Spring of 2015. More recently she directed the thriller Caught starring Anna Camp for Mar Vista Entertainment, marking an impressive three features in just three years. Caught world premiered at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival as one of eight films in competition in the genre section: Nightfall and was later acquired by Lifetime. On the series side: Maggie most recently directed 5 episodes of Caring starring Hannah Dunne and Mickey Sumner for Superdeluxe (Turner) and Guidance for Awesomeness TV.Maggie is an ensemble member of off Broadway's critically acclaimed Atlantic Theater Company and part of the filmmaking collective Film Fatales. Upcoming feature projects include Eyal Alony's Skin Deep (for which she is a Directing Fellow at Film Independent) and Alissa Dean's Cricket with producers Lynn Hendee and Bill Chartoff. Show less «