Maggie Kiley

History

Maggie Kiley is an award-winning director and executive producer. She directed the pilots and first block episodes for Dr. Death, Katy Keene, Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Breathe. Kiley started her career as an actress and later transitioned to writing and directing micro budget indies including her debut feature Some Boys Don't Leave (2009). Prior to directing pilots, Kiley directed many hours of television dramas for such prolific artists as Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and Lauren LeFranc among many others. An alumna of AFI's DWW, Film Independent's Directing Lab and several diversity programs, Kiley was signed to an exclusive overall deal at Warner Brothers Television. She is married to composer/songwriter Matthew Puckett. They have two children.

Profile

Movies

Caught

Director

A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.

Dial a Prayer

Writer

A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people's lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.

Dial a Prayer

Director

A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people's lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.

Brightest Star

Screenplay

A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

Brightest Star

Director

A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

Home, James

Mother

Home, James is a romance that follows James, a local Tulsa photographer as he falls for Cooper, a party girl looking for a way out of town, who both inspires him to take a chance with his art and begins destroying his life with her drinking.

All Good Things

Mary McCarthy

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.

Order of Chaos

Stephanie

Almost rich, almost thirty, he never lies or cheats, even when his beautiful fiancé orders him around and his ball-busting boss uses threats as motivation. John never makes a sound, eager to do right. Rick Carlson is not. A smooth talking and coercive, Rick turns John's life upside down when he not only moves into his building, but starts working at his competitive law firm.

Some Boys Don't Leave

Writer

Some Boys Don't Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact that 'Girl' no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can't seem to leave their once shared apartment. 'Girl' decides to keep living her life around him; while he remains, watching at a distance. In time, each decides to go in his or her own distinctly different directions. 'Boy' soon finds that sometimes the greatest distance we are asked to travel is one within ourselves.

Some Boys Don't Leave

Director

We Own the Night

Sandra Grusinsky

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

Cecilia Meadows

Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out firsthand what fuels The Sixth Sense director's seemingly supernatural creativity as filmmakers interview Shyamalan as well as the cast and crew members who have worked most closely with him over the years. Discover the early events that shaped the mind of a future master of suspense in a documentary that is as fascinating as it is revealing.

Rear Window

Professional Woman

Jason Kemp is a quadriplegic who passes the time spying on his neighbors from his window. By chance he catches one of them, Julian Thorpe, beating his wife and reports it to the police. He becomes certain that Julian has killed her, but fails to convince his nurse or his friends of any foul play.