Bethany Rooney

Bethany Rooney has directed over 220 prime time network television shows, including many critically acclaimed series such as Desperate Housewives, Ally McBeal and Brothers and Sisters, as well as the American long-running classics NCIS and Criminal Minds. In 2018 she became the producing director of the CBS drama Bull, following her similar stint on the CW show The Originals in 2016. She serves on numerous committees at the DGA, including co-chairing the Diversity Committee, and shares her knowledge of the craft by teaching the intensive Warner Brothers TV Directing Workshop. Her book, (co-authored with Mary Lou Belli,) "Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing" is being utilized at multiple studio and network directing programs, and in directing classes on many university campuses. The second edition of the book was published in 2016.