Question: Who was the director of the 2002 American black comedy film in which the actress, who made her film debut in the satire "Divorce American Style", starred?

Context articles: Comic Book Villains
A Bucket of Blood
Death to Smoochy
Robert Kaufman
Eileen Brennan
A Bucket of Blood (1995 film)
The War of the Roses (film)
List of Amy Adams performances
Divorce American Style
Life Without Dick

Comic Book Villains is a 2002 American black comedy film written and directed by James Robinson and starring DJ Qualls, Donal Logue, Michael Rapaport, Natasha Lyonne and Eileen Brennan.
A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American black comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman.
 It starred Dick Miller and was set in beatnik culture.
 The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman's work.
 Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a dark comic satire about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence.
 When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous.
Death to Smoochy is a 2002 American black comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, and starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart and DeVito.
 Despite being a critical and commercial flop when it was first released, in recent years, it has garnered a bit of a cult following.
Robert Kaufman (March 22, 1931 – November 21, 1991) was an American screenwriter, film producer and television writer known for such films and series as "Getting Straight", "Love at First Bite", "She's Out of Control", "Divorce American Style", "The Cool Ones", "Freebie and the Bean", "How to Beat the High Co$t of Living", "The Monkees", and "The Ugliest Girl in Town".
Verla Eileen Brennan (September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013) was an American film, stage, and television actress.
 She made her film debut in the satire "Divorce American Style" (1967), followed by a supporting role in Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show" (1971), which earned her a BAFTA award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
A Bucket of Blood is a 1995 American black comedy horror film directed by Michael James McDonald.
 The film also features (a then-unknown) Will Ferrell in his film debut, and Jennifer Coolidge in only her second film role.
 It is a remake of "A Bucket of Blood", the 1959 cult film directed by Roger Corman, who produced the remake.
 Both films tell the story of a nerdy busboy who turns to murder in order to create his unique sculptures.
 The remake, made for Showtime, was later released on home video under the title The Death Artist.
 It has never been made available on DVD.
 The 1995 remake follows the original closely, with some changes, including a contemporary setting.
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name" by Warren Adler.
 The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage.
 When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center of an outrageous and bitter divorce battle.
Amy Adams is an American actress who made her film debut in the 1999 black comedy "Drop Dead Gorgeous".
 She went on to guest star in a variety of television shows, including "That '70s Show", "Charmed", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "The Office", and also appeared in minor film roles.
 In 2002, she had her first major role in Steven Spielberg's biographical crime drama "Catch Me If You Can".
 However, the film did not launch her career as Spielberg had hoped.
 Three years later, she made the breakthrough with the comedy-drama "Junebug" (2005), for which she received her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.
 Adams also appeared in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Date" that same year.
 In 2007, she starred in the Disney romantic comedy "Enchanted", for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical).
Divorce American Style is a 1967 American satirical comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Simmons, Jason Robards and Van Johnson.
 Norman Lear produced the film and wrote the script based on a story by Robert Kaufman.
 It focuses on a married couple that opts for divorce when counseling fails to help them resolve their various problems, and the problems presented to divorced people by alimony.
 The title is an homage to "Divorce Italian Style" (1961).
Life Without Dick is a direct-to-video 2002 American black comedy film written and directed by Bix Skahill.
 The film focuses on the relationship that develops between an incompetent hitman and a woman who accidentally kills her boyfriend when she discovers he's leaving her for another woman.