Michael Engler is an American theatre director, and television director and producer. His Broadway credits include Eastern Standard and I Hate Hamlet. His direction of the 2003 off-Broadway production of the Alan Bennett play Talking Heads garnered him a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Engler began his television career in 1990 with the HBO series Dream On. Among his many small screen credits are Sisters, My So-Called Life, Chicago Hope, The West Wing, Profit, Party of Five, Once and Again, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Keen Eddie, and 30 Rock.
Engler has been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series three times and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series twice.
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