Lev L. Spiro

After earning dual Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master's Degree in Film Production from The University of Texas at Austin, Spiro broke in to directing with his award-winning feature short The Convict, based on a short story by James Lee Burke. After writing and directing several feature films for Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons, he began directing episodes, pilots and features for television. In the past decade, Mr. Spiro has directed many one hour drama and half hour single-camera comedy pilots and episodes for both network and cable. Episodic television work includes multiple episodes of the acclaimed series Weeds (2005), Arrested Development (2003), Ugly Betty (2006), Everybody Hates Chris (2005), The O.C. (2003), Gilmore Girls (2000) and many more. Original television pilots include the single camera comedy Do Over (2002) and the drama Summerland (2004) for the WB network, The Jersey (1999) for