Michael Spiller
- Producer
- Director
- Cinematographer
Michael Spiller was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended SUNY
Purchase where he met long time collaborator Hal Hartley. Mike
photographed many feature films for Hal and others, as well as
traveling the world shooting numerous documentaries, commercials and
music videos. He began his directing career on the second season of
HBO's Sex and the City which he had been shooting since the first
season. After four years as DP and seven episodes as director, Mike and
his family moved to LA to further pursue his directing career. He has
now directed well over a hundred episodes of TV including over 20
episodes of Modern Family and Scrubs, along with multiple episodes of
The New Girl, The Middle, The Bernie Mac Show, Kitchen Confidential, as
well as directing the pilot of Jake in Progress, and Big Day and
serving as producer/director on both of those series for ABC. His
dramatic work includes five episodes of Ugly Betty, two each of Life as
We Know It and the HBO series Big Love. He won the DGA award and the
Primetime Emmy for directing the Halloween episode of Modern Family.
(2014) Mike is an Executive Producer/Director on The Mindy Project for
NBC Universal and Fox Network. Besides being a loving husband and
father, he is a reluctant urban farmer.
