Kat Coiro

Coiro was born in Manhattan to parents Peter Eves and Gina Cunningham-Eves, who are of English and Italian descent.^[1][2] Her sister, Emmy Eves, became a production designer and worked as an art director on Coiro's first film.^[1]

In ninth grade, Coiro enrolled in boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy.^[2] She taught theater at the University of Miami summer arts camp and studied theater and Russian history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and later studied directing at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia before moving to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking.^[2]

Coiro briefly worked as an actress. She appeared in an episode of Charmed (season 5, episode 18) in 2003, in which she starred as a wood nymph. She appeared on Judging Amy, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent as well as other shows.

Coiro began her directing career writing, directing and producing micro-budget independent films, including her 2011 debut Life Happens with Krysten Ritter and 2013 festival favorite And While We Were Here, which she shot in Italy in 11 days for $150,000 while pregnant. She transitioned into television, directing episodes of shows including Dead to Me, Modern Family, Shameless and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She produced and directed the pilot and multiple episodes of the television series Matlock, Girls5eva, Florida Girls and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and directed and executive produced the majority of episodes for the latter series. Her film Marry Me, was released in 2022 by Universal Pictures and opened at number one in theaters on Valentine's Day.

Coiro is married to actor Rhys Coiro, whom she directed in Life Happens and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. They have three children.^[1] Coiro lives with her family in Los Angeles.^[3]

Television

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Year	Title	Notes	Reference(s)
2014	Slouching Towards Adulthood	Pilot for NBC based on Sally Koslow's book.	[4][5]
2015	Splitting the Difference	Pilot for ABC based on Tre Miller Rodriguez's memoir.	[6]
2016	Untitled Kat Coiro	Pilot for ABC based on growing up above a Haitian Restaurant in Miami Beach.	[7][8]
2017	Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce		[9]
2017	Alone Together	ABC Freeform
2017	The Mick	5 episodes	[10]
2017	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	1 episode
2017	Mozart in the Jungle	1 episode
2018	Sideswiped	2 episodes
2018	Florida Girls	Pilot + 3 episodes
2018	Daddy Issues	Pilot
2018	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	4 episodes
2018	Shameless	1 episode
2018	Modern Family	1 episode
2018	The Kids Are Alright	1 episode
2018–2019	Single Parents	2 episodes
2019	Dead to Me	2 episodes
2021	Girls5eva	Pilot; also co-executive producer
2022	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law	6 episodes; 9 executive producer	[11]
2024–present	The Spiderwick Chronicles	2 episodes; 8 executive producer	[12]
2024	Matlock	9 episodes; 19 executive producer

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Films

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Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2011	L!fe Happens	Yes	Yes	Co-producer
2012	And While We Were Here	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	A Case of You	Yes	No	No
2022	Marry Me	Yes	No	No
2026	You, Me & Tuscany	Yes	No	No
TBA	The Husband's Secret[13]	Yes	No	No
TBA	Foreign Relations	Yes	No	No

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