Shira Piven

An American film and theatre director and writer, Shira Piven co-wrote and directed called The Performance, based on a short story by Arthur Miller. She also co-wrote and directed her first feature film, Fully Loaded, an adaptation of the stage play she directed, about two single mothers on a wild and fraught night out in Los Angeles. Her second feature, Welcome to Me, stars Kristen Wiig in a turn the New Yorker called “one of the best performances of the century… (plus)