Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She is the winner of the 2007

NAACP Image Award The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. Similar to ...

for directing " The Whole Truth" episode of the ABC hit series '' Lost''. She was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Network) Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the

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series ''

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''.

Life and career

Karen is a second-generation Filipina American. She is a graduate of

Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School is a private, Catholic, college preparatory day school for young women grades 6-12. The school is located in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the intersection ...

and

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

. Gaviola has directed over 140 TV episodes, including the shows ''

Lucifer Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ...

'', '' Shadow and Bone'', ''

Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', '' Grimm'', ''

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'' and '' Chicago Fire''. More recently, she has worked as a co-executive producer/director on a number of projects including ''

'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' Magnum P.I.'' and '' Love Is'' for Oprah Winfrey. Her latest project is '' Paper Girls'', the new Amazon series based on the graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan. Gaviola was elected in June 2013 to the National Board of the ''

Directors Guild of America The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad. Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936, the group merg ...

''. She is currently serving her fifth term. She is active with the DGA TV Creative Rights Committee, the Women's Steering Committee, the Asian American Committee, and the Diversity Task Force. In 2022, Gaviola was named as co-chair of the 2023 DGA/AMPTP Negotiations Committee. Karen is also a member of the

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, the

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, and

Film Independent The Independent Spirit Awards (abbreviated Spirit Awards and originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass ...

Filmography

References

NAACP Image Award winnersOfficial DGA website
*https://www.tor.com/2020/07/23/brian-k-vaughan-paper-girls-amazon-prime-studios-greenlight-serie/

External links

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Official DGA websiteKaren Gaviola website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaviola, Karen American television directors American women television directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard College alumni