Lesli Linka Glatter is a director of film, network, premium cable and streaming television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli’s TV work includes Homeland, Love and Death, The Morning Show, The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, Justified, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, True Blood, Mad Men, The Leftovers, The Good Wife, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, ER, Freaks and Geeks and Twin Peaks. Lesli has also directed numerous pilots including Gilmore Girls, Pretty Little Liars and SIX. Her films include Now and Then, The Proposition and for HBO, State of Emergency.

Glatter has been a producing director for the last 25 years. She is the executive producer/director on Netflix’s limited series Zero Day, written by Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim and starring Robert DeNiro, Angela Bassett, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine and Joan Allen. Previously, Glatter was the executive producer/director of Love and Death, an HBO limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. She was the executive producer/director of the award-winning series Homeland for six seasons. She began her directing career through the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, in which her film Tales of Meeting and Parting was nominated for an Oscar. Glatter has been nominated for eight Directors Guild of America Awards, winning her third DGA Award for directing the Homeland series finale, having won twice before for Mad Men and Homeland. She has received eight Emmy nominations and a Humanitus Award nomination for HBO’s State of Emergency. She is currently developing projects for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and HBO. Glatter and her producing partner Cheryl Bloch’s company, Backyard Pictures, recently signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television.

Currently serving as the president of the Directors Guild of America, Glatter also serves on the Executive Committee of the Directors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is an advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Lab and has been committed to mentoring for many years, helping develop the successful NBC program Female Forward. Glatter has received the Caucus Foundation Award, the Dorothy Arzner Directing Award from Women in Film and the Franklin Schaffner Award

from the American Film Institute, as well as an honorary degree from the American Film Institute.

Prior to her work as a director, Glatter was a modern dance choreographer who worked throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S.