emmyawards birth_place article_title name occupation
'' '' ' 1983 '' abc afterschool specials '' '' ` ` outstanding children 's entertainment special '' ' 1983 '' abc outstanding afterschool specials '' individual direction in children 's programming enid , oklahoma sharron miller
 sharron miller director , screenwriter , producer
sharron miller

sharron miller is an american television and film director , producer , and screenwriter .
she is one of the pioneering women directors who worked regularly in mainstream hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s -lrb- along with joan darling , karen arthur , gabrielle beaumont , lela swift , and kim friedman -rrb- .
in 1983 she was the first woman ever to win the coveted directors guild of america award -lrb- dga award -rrb- for directing a narrative -lrb- non-documentary -rrb- work .
