Muffie Meyer

Muffie (Marion) Meyer is an award-winning American director, whose productions include documentaries, theatrical features, television series and children’s films. Films that she directed are the recipients of two Emmy Awards, CINE Golden Eagles, the Japan Prize, Christopher Awards, the Freddie Award, the Columbia-DuPont, and the Peabody Awards. Her work has been selected for festivals in Japan, Greece, London, Edinburgh, Cannes, Toronto, Chicago and New York and she has been twice nominated by the Directors Guild of America.

Meyer was born in New York City and raised in Chicago. She graduated from the Chicago Lab School, Grinnell College and received an MFA from New York University’s film school. Meyer got her start as an assistant editor on the Oscar-winning documentary (1970). Her early editing credits include The Lords of Flatbush (1974), starring Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler, and The Groove Tube (1974), starring Chevy Chase, a film precursor to Saturday Night Live.

Along with Ellen Hovde and Lynzee Klingman, she edited Gilda Live (1980), starring Gilda Radner, directed by Mike Nichols. Meyer worked with pioneering cinema verité documentarians Albert and David Maysles and was one of the directors and editors of Grey Gardens (1975), the critically acclaimed documentary that was released theatrically in 1976 and was eventually released on DVD by The Criterion Collection. In 2010, it was selected by the Library of Congress to join the National Film Registry

In 1978, Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde formed Middlemarch Films, Inc. As Middlemarch, they produced and directed a variety of series and specials for PBS, most of which were written and co-produced by Ronald Blumer. One was the Emmy Award-winning film, An Empire of Reason. Hosted by Cokie Roberts, it featured performances by Mario Cuomo, Ed Koch, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, William F. Buckley, Andrea Mitchell, Phil Donahue, Forrest Sawyer, Robert MacNeil, Al Roker, and many others. Meyer also co-directed (with Ellen Hovde) Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Virginia's Story, a feature film for ABC, based on stories by Grace Paley. The film was written by Oscar nominee John Sayles, and starred Emmy Award-winning actress Ellen Barkin, Oscar nominee David Strathairn, Ron McLarty, and Kevin Bacon.

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