Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, writer, producer, choreographer and actress.
[citation needed] She began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance with Margaret O'Brien and Cyd Charisse.
Tewkesbury collaborated with Altman on several of his films, including McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, as a script supervisor) and Thieves Like Us (1974, her first credit as a feature writer).
[3] Tewkesbury wrote and directed numerous hours of episodic television, including for Disney, HBO, CBS, TNT, and NBC.
[4] She has also taught screenwriting, at the University of Southern California, with her workshop “Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous Response” travelling throughout the United States, Israel, and Japan.