TARA MIELE

Tara Miele is a DGA-Award nominated filmmaker originally from Long Island. Her widely acclaimed film, Wander Darkly, starring Sienna Miller and Diego Luna, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Lionsgate. She is currently attached to direct the psychological thriller, The Process, starring Halle Berry. 

In addition to her feature work, Tara recently helmed a block of episodes on the upcoming Amazon series, We Were Liars, based on the New York Times best-selling book.  Her work on the final two episodes of Apple TV's Lessons in Chemistry, starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson, earned her a DGA nomination for Best Direction in a Limited Series.  Tara has also directed an episode of the award-winning anthology series Little America for Apple, "The Bra Whisperer,"  and has helmed fan-favorite episodes of: The Rookie, La Brea, Hawaii Five-0, Arrow, Batwoman, and Fantasy Island, as well as four micro-budget features.

 

Tara is well known for her 2016 viral video, Meet a Muslim, which she created to combat Islamophobia and has over 45 million views. She is a graduate of Ryan Murphy's Half Initiative and the CBS Directing Initiative. 

As a Co-Chair of the Women's Steering Committee at the Directors Guild of America, Tara helped launch the DGA's first peer-to-peer mentorship program for women, The WSC Squad. She is an Icon member of the Alliance of Women Directors and was featured in Women in Film's Hire Her Back campaign. Looking forward, Tara has a small aim to create work that changes the world, and when she isn't doing that, she's busy raising two kids. Both love that their mom went viral.