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Gail Mancuso Biography

Birth Name:Gail Susan Mancuso

Birth Place:Melrose Park, Illinois, United States

Profession Director, Script department, Producer, Assistant director

Fast Facts

Won a Gracie Award for her work as a director on "30 Rock" in 2008
Initially an associate director for "Roseanne," she got the chance to become one of the show's main directors after the previous director left in 1991
Worked as an usher for several different talk shows before becoming a script supervisor for the TV series "Brothers" in 1984
Quote: "I blend in well with the system [as a director]․ After all these years of work, I have enough self-confidence to collaborate really well with the writers and producers and actors․"
Best known as a television director who worked on "Roseanne," "Friends" and "Modern Family․"