TARA MIELE

Tara Miele is a DGA Award–nominated filmmaker who grew up on Long Island and has built a career moving fluidly between intimate character stories and large-scale television drama. 
 

Her feature film Wander Darkly, starring Sienna Miller and Diego Luna, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival before it was released by Lionsgate.
 

In television, Tara most recently directed the highest-rated episode of the #1 drama on television, ABC’s High Potential and an upcoming block of CBS’s breakout drama Sheriff Country. She also helmed the final two episodes of Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry, starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson, earning a DGA nomination for Best Direction in a Limited Series. Other credits include Little America (“The Bra Whisperer”), We Were Liars, The Rookie, La Brea, Hawaii Five-0, Arrow, Batwoman, and Fantasy Island, as well as four micro-budget features and the CW backdoor pilot Green Arrow and the Canaries.
 

Tara is also well known for Her 2016 viral video Meet a Muslim, which she created as a response to rising Islamophobia and has been viewed more than 45 million times worldwide. 
 

No matter the genre or platform, Tara thrives in the messy, joyful circus of filmmaking — collaborating, shaping stories, and creating work that sparks connection and empathy.