BIOGRAPHY
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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 has completed eight feature films which have premiered at film festivals such as Toronto, Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca. Her feature work includes: YEAR OF THE FOX (starring Sarah Jeffery, Jane Adams, and Balthazar Getty), I’LL SHOW YOU MINE (Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown), SADIE (Melanie Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, and Tony Hale), THE NIGHT STALKER (Lou Diamond Phillips and Bellamy Young), LUCKY THEM (Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp), EDEN (Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, and Matt O’Leary), THE OFF HOURS (Amy Seimetz, Scoot McNairy), and FIRST AID FOR CHOKING. She is currently directing (alongside Mindie Lind) VIEW FROM THE FLOOR, a feature-length animated documentary about disability, ableism, and exploitation.
Griffiths has also produced several projects including Todd Rohal’s THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM, and YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, directed by the late Lynn Shelton, Griffiths’s close friend and frequent collaborator. Griffiths and Shelton also co-wrote a feature for This American Life, and together with producer Gregg Fienberg sold an original pitch to HBO.
Griffiths is a member of 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 also was awarded a Trailblazer Award at the 2025 KINO Fest for the work she has done across her career to advance filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest. She serves on the board of Northwest Film Forum and is an advocate for sustainable production.
Griffiths also writes about her experiences in the entertainment industry for her blog Thoughts on Film, and discusses recent releases for the film commentary site The Talkhouse. Selected pieces curated here on this site.