Kat Coiro is an Emmy and DGA Award nominated American film and television director known for directing Marry Me (2022), a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma for Universal Pictures as well as directing and producing CBS' hit show Matlock (2024) starring Kathy Bates.
Other pilots include Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles, Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Girls5Eva, Florida Girls, and many others.
Coiro was born in Manhattan to parents Peter Eves and Gina Cunningham-Eves, who are of English and Italian American descent.
[2] She taught theater at the University of Miami summer arts camp and studied theater and Russian history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and later studied directing at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia before moving to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking.
She later transitioned into television, directing episodes of shows including Dead to Me, Modern Family, Shameless and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.