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Gail Mancuso

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Gail Mancuso at an event for The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013)
Noted TV series director Gail Mancuso grew up in suburban Cook County, Illinois. Mancuso began her career as an usher of the set of several television talk shows. Later, became a script supervisor for the Showtime Cable Network comedy "Brothers". In 1989, she began serving as associate director for the ABC-TV sitcom series "Roseanne". After one of the show's directors left in 1991, she had the chance to become one of the main directors and continued until the show's eighth season. She went on to direct episodes of many television series like the long-running NBC-TV sitcom "Friends", and the ABC sitcoms "Dharma and Greg" and "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place". In 2007, Gail began working on the CBS-TV sitcom series "Rules of Engagement". She has also directed episodes of ABC-TV's "30 Rock" and NBC-TV's "Scrubs". In 2008, she won a Gracie Award for her work on "30 Rock". In 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her "Modern Family" episode "Slow Down Your Neighbors". In 2012, she reunited with "Roseanne" co-stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman, both of whom she directed on "Roseanne", in the pilot episode of "Downwardly Mobile", which was commissioned by NBC-TV, but ultimately did not get picked up by the network. In 2013, she won the Emmy Award for directing episode "Arrested" on "Modern Family". Gail is happily married to Brian Downs, a doctor; they have three children. The family divides its' time between their homes in Valencia, California and River Forest, Illinois.
BornJuly 14, 1958
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  • Won 2 Primetime Emmys

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Gail Mancuso in Modern Family (2009)
Christopher Lloyd and Gail Mancuso in Modern Family (2009)
Gail Mancuso in Modern Family (2009)
Sarah Hyland, Christopher Lloyd, Gail Mancuso, and Reid Ewing in Modern Family (2009)
Christopher Lloyd and Gail Mancuso in Modern Family (2009)
Christopher Lloyd and Gail Mancuso in Modern Family (2009)
Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Gail Mancuso, and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons in Modern Family (2009)
Gail Mancuso and Lucila Solá in Modern Family (2009)
Gail Mancuso at an event for The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014)
Gail Mancuso at an event for The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014)
Gail Mancuso at an event for The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014)
Gail Mancuso at an event for The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014)

Known for

Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Hyland, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Beatrice the Dog, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Reid Ewing, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, and Jeremy Maguire in Modern Family (2009)
Modern Family
8.5
TV Series
  • Director
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in Gilmore Girls (2000)
Gilmore Girls
8.2
TV Series
  • Director
Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, and Jack McBrayer in 30 Rock (2006)
30 Rock
8.3
TV Series
  • Director
Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad in A Dog's Journey (2019)
A Dog's Journey
7.4
  • Director
  • 2019

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Director

  • Besties
    • Pre-production
  • Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp, Sam Morelos, Mace Coronel, Ashley Aufderheide, Callie Haverda, Maxwell Acee Donovan, and Reyn Doi in That '90s Show (2023)
    That '90s Show
  • Topher Grace, Karla Souza, Sasheer Zamata, Caitlin McGee, and Jimmy Tatro in Home Economics (2021)
    Home Economics
  • Grace and Frankie (2015)
    Grace and Frankie
  • The Big Leap (2021)
    The Big Leap
  • Dirk Blocker, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Joel McKinnon Miller, Andy Samberg, and Stephanie Beatriz in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
    Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  • Josh Peck in Turner & Hooch (2021)
    Turner & Hooch
  • John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Jay R. Ferguson, Alicia Goranson, Laurie Metcalf, Emma Kenney, and Ames McNamara in The Conners (2018)
    The Conners
  • Matt LeBlanc in Man with a Plan (2016)
    Man with a Plan
  • Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Hyland, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Beatrice the Dog, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Reid Ewing, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, and Jeremy Maguire in Modern Family (2009)
    Modern Family
  • Fran Drescher, Steven Weber, Adam Pally, and Abby Elliott in Indebted (2020)
    Indebted
  • Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad in A Dog's Journey (2019)
    A Dog's Journey
  • So Close
  • John Goodman, Roseanne Barr, Sara Gilbert, Michael Fishman, Alicia Goranson, and Laurie Metcalf in Roseanne (1988)
    Roseanne
  • Ellie Kemper in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)
    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  • John Michael Higgins, Andrea Martin, Horatio Sanz, Adam Campbell, Nicole Richie, and Briga Heelan in Great News (2017)
    Great News

Additional Crew

  • The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017)
    The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards
  • The 66th Primetime Emmy Nominations Annoucement
  • John Goodman, Roseanne Barr, Sara Gilbert, Michael Fishman, Alicia Goranson, and Laurie Metcalf in Roseanne (1988)
    Roseanne
  • The Toni Tennille Show (1979)
    The Toni Tennille Show

Script and Continuity Department

  • Nicole Dubuc, Chelsea Hertford, Gerald McRaney, Shanna Reed, and Marisa Ryan in Major Dad (1989)
    Major Dad
    • (as Gail Cordray)
  • Julie Brown: The Show
    • (as Gail Mancuso Cordray)
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Linda Kelsey, and Doug Sheehan in Day by Day (1988)
    Day by Day
    • (as Gail Cordray)
  • Just the Ten of Us (1987)
    Just the Ten of Us
    • (as Gail Cordray)
  • Brothers (1984)
    Brothers
    • (as Gail Cordray)
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    • July 14, 1958
    • Melrose Park, Illinois, USA
    • ? - present (3 children)

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    Valencia, CA: Divides time between residences there and in Illinois, with husband and children, in between directing jobs.

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