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Zhang Ziyi

Cast · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Rush Hour 2

Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded actress for a single film.

Tan Dun

Composer · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Tan Dun (born August 18, 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. He has composed in diverse musical media incorporating both Western and traditional Chinese influences. His film score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Ang Lee

Director · Known for Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Life of Pi

Ang Lee OBS (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Born in Pingtung County, Lee gained fame in Taiwan for the Father Knows Best trilogy, including Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between Eastern and Western cultures. His breakthrough in Hollywood came with Sense and Sensibility (1995), which was his first English-language film. His other notable films include The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), Gemini Man (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ang Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Chow Yun-Fat

Cast · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Prison on Fire

Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.

Tim Squyres

Editor · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Life of Pi

Timothy S. Squyres is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. Squires has had an extended collaboration with the Taiwanese director Ang Lee. His latest collaboration with Jonathan Demme on the film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th-century play by Henrik Ibsen. Squires was born in Wenonah, New Jersey. He is the brother of Steve Squyres, a retired professor of astronomy at Cornell University and chief scientist at Blue Origin. Both brothers attended Cornell after attending Gateway Regional High School in New Jersey. Squyres has edited all of Ang Lee's films except for Brokeback Mountain, including The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Hire: Chosen (2001), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012). Squyres served as editor of Angelina Jolie's adaptation of Unbroken, released on December 25, 2014. Squyres' work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award, among other awards. His work on Gosford Park (directed by Robert Altman—2001) was also nominated for an Eddie. In 2012, he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Life of Pi. Squires has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Squyres is a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Squyres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Harry Shum Jr.

Cast · Known for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Glee

Harry Shum Jr. (born April 28, 1982) is a Costa Rican-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. He is best known for his roles as Mike Chang on the Fox television series Glee (2009–15) and as Magnus Bane on the Freeform television series Shadowhunters (2016–19). He was nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance in Glee, winning once. He won the award for The Male TV Star of 2018 in the E! People's Choice Awards for Shadowhunters. Shum has appeared in the films Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), Step Up 3D (2010), White Frog (2012), Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), the Hulu web series The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010–2011) and the YouTube Originals series Single by 30 (2016). In 2020, he starred in Universal's romantic drama All My Life.

Peter Pau Tak-hai

Cinematographer · Known for Bride of Chucky, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Peter Pau Tak-hai is a famous film director, producer, and world-renowned Chinese cinematographer. As a young man, he went to the United States to study film. In 1985, he returned to Hong Kong to join the film industry in there. In 2001, he won the Oscar for Best Cinematography with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" being the first non-American Chinese cinematographer to win this award

Cheng Pei-pei

Cast · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Cheng Pei-pei (Chinese: 鄭佩佩, December 4, 1946–July 17, 2024) was an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. It made her a contender for one of the first female action star. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She worked for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.

Lung Sihung

Cast · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lung Sihung (born 1930 – May 2, 2002), also romanized Lang Sihung, was an actor in the cinema of Taiwan who appeared in over 100 films and was best known for playing paternal roles in films including The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. He frequently collaborated in the later years of his career with award-winning director Ang Lee, notably cast in films such as Pushing Hands and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Lung enlisted in Chiang Kai-shek's army as a teenager to fight the Chinese Communist Party. After they seized control of mainland China, he escaped to Taiwan, where he was selected to join an army-sponsored acting troupe. Acting later became his career. His experience playing an array of roles for the army troupe later led his being cast in over 100 Chinese-language films and in Taiwanese soap operas, typically playing criminals or tough guys. He had already retired from films when Ang Lee began casting for his first full-length film, 1992's Pushing Hands, and the director, who recalled watching Mr. Lung as a child, asked him to play a father in the film. Lung's sensitive portrayal of an elderly man faced with change turned him into an international star and he became famous for playing fathers struggling with modernity and adult children in the movies known to some fans as the Father Knows Best trilogy. By the time he appeared as "Sir Te," guardian of a mystical sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lung's health had deteriorated due to diabetes. He died of liver failure in 2002 at the age of 72. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sihung Lung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michelle Yeoh

Cast · Known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Yeoh Choo Kheng PSM SPMP (Chinese: 楊紫瓊; born 6 August 1962), known professionally as Michelle Yeoh (/joʊ/), is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, Yeoh has appeared in projects encompassing a wide array of genres and received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action and martial arts films, where she performed her stunts. These roles included Yes, Madam (1985), Magnificent Warriors (1987), Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992), The Heroic Trio, Tai Chi Master (both 1993), and Wing Chun (1994). After moving to the United States, Yeoh gained international recognition for starring in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Ang Lee's wuxia martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); the latter gained her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her Hollywood career progressed with roles in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Sunshine (2007), and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). She continued to appear in Hong Kong and Chinese cinema, starring in True Legend (2010), Reign of Assassins (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), and Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018). In 2011, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in the British biographical film The Lady. Yeoh played supporting roles in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019), as well as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and the television series Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2020). Her voice acting work has included Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Minions: The Rise of Gru, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (both 2022), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), and The Tiger's Apprentice (2024). For her starring role as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Asian to win the category, and the first Malaysian to win an Academy Award. She has since featured in the mystery film A Haunting in Venice (2023) and the musical fantasy film Wicked (2024). The film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time in 2008. In 1997, she was chosen by People as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World", and in 2009, the same magazine listed her as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties". In 2022, Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people on its annual listicle and its Icon of the Year. In 2024, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Yeoh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

James Schamus

Producer · Writer · Known for Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee, the co-founder of the production company Good Machine, and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company Focus Features, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. He is currently president of the New York–based production company Symbolic Exchange and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1989. Schamus was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a Jewish family.He is the son of Clarita (Gershowitz) Karlin and Julian John Schamus and was raised in Los Angeles. He is married to writer Nancy Kricorian, with whom he has two children. His output includes writing or co-writing The Ice Storm, Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hulk (all directed by Ang Lee) and producing Brokeback Mountain and Alone in Berlin. At Focus he oversaw the production and distribution of Lost in Translation, Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Coraline, and The Kids Are All Right. In addition to his tenure at Columbia University, he has also taught at Yale University and at Rutgers University. He is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, published by the University of Washington Press. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Schamus made his feature directorial debut with Indignation, an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel of the same name. Schamus also wrote the script for the film, which stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, and Tracy Letts, and is the story of a Jewish student at an Ohio college in 1951. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released by Roadside Attractions on July 29, 2016. He was president of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. He has also been on the jury of the New York International Children's Film Festival and has served on the editorial boards of Film Quarterly and Cinema Journal, as well as on the board of Creative Capital and the Heyman Centre for the Humanities. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Rosenbaum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stephanie Conching

Steve Belanger

After a sixteen-year, soul-crushing career as a corporate executive, Steve Belanger found salvation, if not steady income, in a life of writing and performing. He has worked with Oscar-winners. He has written countless scripts. His work has appeared in several major magazines. He has performed comedy on the country's most celebrated stages. He also spends a lot of time waiting for the phone to ring. Steve splits his time between both coasts, but lives mostly in Long Island, New York with his lovely wife Kelly and his dog Bailey.

Ruth D'Silva

Ruth received a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Lancaster University before studying acting at Drama Studio London. Ruth has worked in the corporate sector for twelve years, acting in and facilitating 1 2 1 bespoke role-plays, written role-plays, business behaviour coaching and forum theatre. In the last 3 years she has been a regular workshop leader for Latham Flow running and taking part in workshops on public speaking, presentation skills and influencing. Most recently Ruth has strengthened her credentials in the field of storytelling as a playwright with a premiere of her work “The Bungalow” with TaraArts in London.

Daniel Zillmann

Daniel Zillmann (born January 18, 1981, in West Berlin) is a German actor, voice actor, and singer. Daniel Zillmann grew up in Berlin-Neukölln and completed his acting training at the Special Coaching Actors Studio in Berlin. He made his feature film debut in 2005 in *NVA*, directed by Leander Haußmann. Numerous roles in film and television productions followed, including *Schwere Jungs*, *Schwarze Schafe*, *Gonger – Das Böse vergisst nie*, and the fairy-tale film *Die kluge Bauerntochter*. He played recurring roles in various TV series, including *Deadline – Jede Sekunde zählt*, *KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst*, and—since 2017—*Löwenzahn*, in which he plays the character David Paschulke. Zillmann is also successful as a voice actor. He has voiced roles in animated films such as *Baymax – Riesiges Robowabohu* (the German dub of *Big Hero 6*), *Zoomania* (*Zootopia*), and the *Hotel Transylvania* film series. Furthermore, he works as an audio drama performer and has appeared in numerous other film and television productions, including *Buddy*, *Zettl*, *Sommer in Orange*, and the ZDF miniseries *Der gleiche Himmel*. Alongside his acting career, Zillmann is also active in the music scene. He was the lead singer of the band Norma Jeane Baker and, together with Luci van Org, founded the musical project KiNG MAMI. He was also a member of the Berlin-based artist collective "HüKST." For his role in the web series *World of Wolfram*, he was nominated for "Outstanding Actor" at the LA Web Fest. Since 2019, he has also written a column for *Curvy Magazin*. In 2021, Zillmann was among the actors who publicly came out as queer as part of the #actout initiative.

Richie Chance

Richie Chance (born July 25, 1983) is an American film and television actor, producer and acting coach. He started coaching many of Hollywood's young and rising stars at "Expressions Unlimited" in 2001.

Ria Pavia

Ria Pavia is an award-winning director whose debut, Second Team, recently won over a dozen awards on the festival circuit from 2020- 2021. Pavia also works as a dialogue/acting coach, privately coaching dozens of actors to prepare them for set and self-tape auditions. Prior to her coaching work, Pavia worked as a stage director, helming more than 20 plays and musicals. In the theater world, she has collaborated with actors including Jennifer Aniston, Noah Wyle and Mark Ruffalo. Her debut as a director represents a new step into film and television for Pavia, who has worked extensively in the industry. Previously, she worked as a "punch up" writer for feature films and staff writer on Ask Harriet, starring Ed Asner, as well as Pauly, starring Pauly Shore. Pavia's varied experiences as a casting associate included the classic movies Twister, Dead Presidents, and Flirting with Disaster. Though she excelled in her directing roles, Pavia began her career as a commercial actor; her "big break" came via a memorable gymnastics performance in a tampon commercial in the 80s. She went on to recur on hit TV shows ranging from sitcoms like Who's the Boss and The Hughley's to the soap Santa Barbara, before moving behind the camera. Pavia's creative education began in high school as a Theatre Major at Interlochen Arts Academy. She then studied under Sanford Meisner in the West Indies and finished up her education at UCLA, with a focus on theatre, TV and film. Her most rigorous role to date is the title of "Mother" to three spirited spawn: Daughter, Adrianna (20) and twin boys Dominic and Rocco (17). Pavia is based in Los Angeles.

Kirsten Foe

Kirsten Foe is a triple threat: writer, director, and full-throttle stunt woman. Whether she's choreographing bone-crunching fight scenes or scripting emotionally charged drama, she brings fearless creativity to every frame. Her work has lit up fan-favorite series like Twin Peaks, The Affair, and Grimm, and she’s doubled for powerhouses like Cobie Smulders, Alison Brie, Ruth Wilson, and Heidi Klum—often behind the wheel, on a motorcycle, or mid-air in a perfectly timed takedown. From stunt driving to storytelling, Kirsten thrives where adrenaline meets artistry. She splits her time between the sunny, surf-soaked streets of Marina del Rey and a quiet farm near Sun Valley, Idaho.

Jacob Hashem

Jacob Hashem was born in Indiana and raised in Austin, Texas. His mother is a white American air force brat and college professor and his father is a middle eastern 2 time Olympian (4 if you count coaching) and retired banker. Growing up, Jacob played football and baseball, but acting has always been his passion. He has a bachelor's in psychology from Cal State Northridge and a RTVF degree from the University of North Texas.

Samuel Schneider

Samuel Schneider (born April 7, 1995, in Berlin) is a German actor. Samuel Schneider grew up in the Berlin district of Wedding. His German mother was active in the Berlin squatters' scene in 1983, while his father hails from Turkey. His artistic career began at a young age. From 2005 to 2007, he performed at the Berliner Ensemble in William Shakespeare’s *The Winter’s Tale*, directed by Robert Wilson. At the age of ten, he began taking acting lessons at the Special Coaching Actors Studio in Berlin, and starting in 2008, he took on his first film roles. Beginning in 2018, Schneider studied acting for a year and a half at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin). In 2023, he completed his Master’s degree in "Theater and Performance" at the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). As part of his studies, he directed his first stage play, titled *Faust3000*. Guest engagements led him to various theaters, including the Volksbühne Berlin in 2016, where he performed alongside Kathrin Angerer in *I love you, but I’ve chosen Entdramatisierung*, directed by René Pollesch. In 2018, he appeared on stage at the Berliner Ensemble in Simon Stone’s *Eine Griechische Trilogie* (A Greek Trilogy), performing alongside Martin Wuttke. Schneider landed his first leading role in a feature film in 2010 in *Boxhagener Platz*, based on the novel by Torsten Schulz and directed by Matti Geschonneck. In 2013, he took on a lead role alongside Ulrich Tukur in *Exit Marrakech*, directed by Caroline Link; for this performance, he received the New Faces Award in 2014 for Best German Newcomer Actor. Further leading roles followed in films such as *Agonie* by David Clay Diaz, *Die Puppenspieler* (based on the novel by Tanja Kinkel), *Asphaltgorillas* by Detlev Buck, and *Hello Again – Ein Tag für immer* by Maggie Peren. In 2022, Schneider appeared in Doris Dörrie’s *Freibad*, as well as in the international French series *Toutes Ces Choses Qu’on Ne S’est Pas Dites* (or *All Those Things We Never Said*)—based on the novel by Marc Levy—alongside Jean Reno and Alexandra Maria Lara. In the years that followed, he took on lead roles in Sylvie Michel’s *More Than Strangers* and Kida Khodr Ramadan’s *Haltlos*. Most recently, he was seen in Karoline Herfurth’s box-office hit *Wunderschön*. Samuel Schneider lives in Berlin.

Glenn 'Doc' Rivers

Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). An NBA player for 14 seasons, he was an NBA All-Star and was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History. Rivers was named the 2000 NBA Coach of the Year in his first season with the Magic and won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 2008. He was also an analyst for ESPN. In April 2026, he was announced as a coaching inductee to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

Jim Barclay

Jim Barclay (born 23 May 1947) is an English actor and comedian, who played the title role of Jossy Blair in the BBC TV series Jossy's Giants. He was also part of the early British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. In 1986, Barclay starred in the popular BBC children's football-based drama Jossy's Giants, playing the eponymous Jossy Blair, a former child football star injured shortly after his debut for Newcastle United, now charged with coaching a local school team to greatness. Barclay also appeared on television a number of times as a comedian, notably performing his stand-up act on Book 'Em and Risk It (Channel 4, 1983), Stomping on the Cat (Channel 4, 1984), and Interference (Channel 4, 1984). As an actor, he appeared in three episodes of the seminal alternative comedy series The Young Ones: (Boring, Flood and Sick). He has appeared in several episodes of both Grange Hill and The Bill.

Selena Anduze

Originally from the US Virgin Island of St. Croix, actress Selena Anduze is the youngest of three children. She has been a performing artist since age 7. At age 9 she was the youngest performer to win the title of "Miss U.S. Virgin Islands" at the World Modeling Association (WMA) talent awards in New York City. Selena moved to the US as a teenager and performed in numerous regional theaters, while concentrating on an arts and sciences education. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and a Masters/PhD in Health Sciences from Clayton College. She also holds certifications in healing arts and writing. In addition to coaching and career consulting for fellow actors and artists, Selena sits on the Atlanta SAG-AFTRA board and two TV/Film committees as an advocate for diversity both in front of and behind the lens.

Angela Elayne Gibbs

Cast · Known for Hacks

Angela Elayne Gibbs is an actress and writer. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Angela has a diverse background in the entertainment industry that spans 5 decades. As an actor, her credits include recurring roles on "Hacks," "On My Block," and "SWAT." As a regular on Aaron McGruder's "Black Jesus," her character, Ms. Tudi, broke out as one of the leads. Her films include "Love Jacked," in which she starred with her mother, Marla Gibbs; "Stone Cold Christmas"; and "Straight Outta Compton," in which she portrayed Ice Cube's mother. As an acting coach, Gibbs has worked with Alejandro G. Inarritu, coaching on both his Oscar-winning films, "Birdman" and "The Revenant." Gibbs coached newcomer Demetrius Shipp for the role of Tupac in the upcoming "All Eyes On Me," and Richie Merritt on "White Boy Rick" for critically-acclaimed director Yaan Demange. While attending the American Film Institute, Gibbs cast the short film, "Last Breeze of Summer," that won an Academy-Award nomination, and she received AFI's Mary Pickford Award for directing. Her short film "Ties That Bind" won the HBO Shorts Award, was featured during BET's Best Short series, and won Best Short at the prestigious Pan African Film Festival. When Angela produced the play "227," the success buzz caught the attention of Norman Lear, who helped develop it into the NBC hit series. Angela is the recipient of two NAACP Image Awards for producing "227" and for the Broadway play "Checkmates," starring Denzel Washington and Ruby Dee. Gibbs wrote the Trumpet Awards for its first 10 years and taught at Spelman College's Drama Department. Angela is developing two features that she will direct.