# Kat Coiro

Kat Coiro is an Emmy and DGA Award nominated American film and television director known for directing Marry Me (2022), a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma for Universal Pictures as well as directing and producing CBS' hit show Matlock (2024) starring Kathy Bates. Other pilots include Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles, Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Girls5Eva, Florida Girls, and many others.

## Early life

Coiro was born in Manhattan to parents Peter Eves and Gina Cunningham-Eves, who are of English and Italian American descent. Her sister, Emmy Eves, later became a production designer and worked as an art director on Coiro's first movie.
In ninth grade, Coiro enrolled in boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy. 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.

## Career

Kat 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 also 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 later 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, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma, was released to theaters and streaming in 2022 by Universal Pictures and opened at number one in theaters on Valentine's Day.

## Personal life

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

## Credits
### Television

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2014 | Slouching Towards Adulthood | Pilot for NBC based on Sally Koslow's book. |
| 2015 | Splitting the Difference | Pilot for ABC based on Tre Miller Rodriguez's memoir. |
| 2016 | Untitled Kat Coiro | Pilot for ABC based on growing up above a Haitian Restaurant in Miami Beach. |
| 2017 | Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce | |
| 2017 | Alone Together | ABC Freeform |
| 2017 | The Mick | 5 episodes |
| 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; 8 executive producer |
| 2024–present | The Spiderwick Chronicles | 2 episodes; 8 executive producer |
| 2024 | Matlock | 9 episodes; 19 executive producer |

### Films

| 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 |
| TBA | The Husband's Secret | Yes | No | No |
| TBA | Foreign Relations | Yes | No | No |