Karen Gaviola
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Karen Gaviola | |
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| Occupations | Television producer and director |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She is known for working across a wide stylistic range, spanning all genres of television: action, fantasy, intimate drama, crime procedurals and science fiction. Of note are the performances she gets from the actors in her episodes and her attention to story.
Karen is a second-generation Filipina American. Her father was an aerospace engineer and her mother an accountant. She is a graduate of Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) and Harvard College with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies.
Her break into the business came through acceptance into the Directors Guild of America Assistant Director Training Program. Upon graduation, she worked her way up as a freelance assistant director. Her directing break came on NYPD Blue.
Since then, Gaviola has directed over 150 TV episodes, including the shows The Boys, Gen V, The Walking Dead,Lucifer, Shadow and Bone,[1][2] Empire, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Hawaii Five-0, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grimm, Criminal Minds and Chicago Fire.[3][4][5]
She has also worked as a co-executive producer/director on a number of projects including Lucifer, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I. and Love Is for Oprah Winfrey and Paper Girls.
Karen won the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing the episode "The Whole Truth" of the ABC hit series Lost.[6] Gaviola was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Network) Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the Shonda Rhimes series Private Practice.
Gaviola was elected in June 2013 to the National Board of the Directors Guild of America. She served four terms as a Board Member and three terms as a Board Alternate.[7] She chaired the DGA Safety Committee, which produced the template for set safety standards in California, New York and Georgia. She is also active with the DGA TV Creative Rights Committee, the Women's Steering Committee, the Asian American Committee, and the Diversity Task Force.[8] In 2022, Gaviola was named as co-chair of the 2023 DGA/AMPTP Negotiations Committee. She will be serving in that role again for the 2026 DGA/AMPTP negotiations.[9] Karen is also a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Film Independent.
Karen is also a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Film Independent.
