MEGAN GRIFFITHS
“Common Tone Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and uplifting personal expression through music and the arts. Through education and performance, CTA provides opportunities to artists and students to harness their own creativity to add to a collective human story.”
Megan Griffiths is a writer/director working in film and television. She has directed shows for HBO, EPIX, TNT, Hulu, USA, Fox, Netflix, and served as the producing director for season two of Amazon’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Griffiths recently completed two features: YEAR OF THE FOX, starring Sarah Jeffery, Jane Adams, and Jake Weber, and I’LL SHOW YOU MINE, starring Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown, produced by Duplass Brothers Productions, which will be released in June 2023. Prior to this, she wrote and directed SADIE, which premiered at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival and stars Melanie Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, and Tony Hale. She also created the thriller THE NIGHT STALKER, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as serial killer Richard Ramirez, which premiered on Lifetime Television. Her film LUCKY THEM starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Griffiths’s film EDEN was a breakout at SXSW 2012, winning the Emergent Narrative Director Award, the Audience Award for Narrative Feature as well as a Special Jury Prize for lead actress Jamie Chung. Griffiths’ feature THE OFF HOURS, distributed by Film Movement, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Additionally, Griffiths has produced several other projects including the Sundance absurdist buddy comedy THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM, as well as YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, directed by the late Lynn Shelton, Griffiths’s close friend and frequent collaborator. Griffiths and Shelton also co-wrote a feature for This American Life, and together with producer Gregg Fienberg sold an original pitch to HBO.
Griffiths was recently invited to join the director’s branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In her adopted hometown of Seattle, Griffiths was the recipient of the 2012 Stranger Genius Award for Film, was named the 2013 City Arts Film Artist of the Year, and received the 2015 Seattle Mayor’s Award for Film. She serves on the board of Northwest Film Forum and is an active advocate for sustainable production.
