The Handmaid's Tale
In 2017, Morano directed the first three episodes of the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", which was released by the streaming service Hulu in April 2017. For her work on "The Handmaid's Tale", she won an Emmy Award. She also won a Directors Guild of America Award for directing a drama series for the episode "Offred" of "The Handmaid's Tale", which makes her the first woman in history to win both the Emmy and Directors Guild Award for directing a drama series in the same year.