Lesli Linka Glatter is a Director of film, network, premium cable and streaming television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli’s TV work includes Zero Day, Homeland, Love and Death, The Morning Show, The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, Justified, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, True Blood, Mad Men, The Leftovers, The Good Wife, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, ER, Freaks and Geeks and Twin Peaks. Lesli has also directed numerous pilots including Gilmore Girls, Pretty Little Liars and SIX. Her films include Now and Then, The Proposition and for HBO, State of Emergency.

Lesli has been a Producing Director for the last 25 years. Glatter is currently an Executive Producer and Director on Apple’s limited series, Imperfect Women, which was created by Annie Weisman and is currently in pre-production. Imperfect Women stars Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, and Kate Mara. Previously, Lesli was the Executive Producer/Director of Zero Day, which is currently number 1 on Neilsen’s most-watched streaming list. Zero Day stars Robert DeNiro, Angela Bassett, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine and Joan Allen. Lesli was the Executive Producer/Director of the award-winning series Homeland for 6 seasons. She began her directing career through the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, in which her film Tales of Meeting and Parting was nominated for an Oscar. Lesli has been nominated for 8 Director’s Guild of America (“DGA”) Awards, winning her third DGA Award for directing the Homeland series finale, having won twice before for Mad Men and Homeland. Lesli has received 8 Emmy nominations and a Humanitus Award nomination for HBO’s State of Emergency. Lesli is currently developing projects for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and HBO. Lesli and her producing partner Cheryl Bloch’s company, Backyard Pictures, is based at Sony Pictures Television.

Lesli currently serves as the President of the Directors Guild of America. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Directors Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Lesli is an advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Lab and has been committed to mentoring for many years and helped develop the successful NBC program, Female Forward. Lesli has received the Caucus Foundation Award, the Dorothy Arzner Directing Award from Women in Film and the Franklin Schaffner Award from the American Film Institute, as well as an Honorary Degree from the American Film Institute.

Prior to her work as a director, Lesli was a modern dance choreographer who worked throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S