Richard Shepard

For those of a similar name, see Richard Sheppard (disambiguation).

Richard Shepard
Born	1965 (age 60–61) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Director, writer, producer
Partner	Jennifer Konner

Richard Shepard (born 1965) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

Biography

Shepard was born in New York City, New York. Shepard's father was from an Austro-Hungarian-Jewish background and his mother was of Armenian descent.

In 2007, Shepard received a Directors Guild of America Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for the television pilot for Ugly Betty. Shepard's next film, The Perfection, was financed by Miramax, and started its production in early 2018. It was released in 2019 by Netflix.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1989	Cool Blue	Yes	Yes	No	Co-directed with Mark Mullin
1991	The Linguini Incident	Yes	Yes	No
1995	Mercy	Yes	Yes	Yes
1997	Below Utopia	No	Yes	No	aka Body Count
1999	Oxygen	Yes	Yes	Yes
2000	Mexico City	Yes	Yes	Yes
2005	The Matador	Yes	Yes	No
2007	The Hunting Party	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Dom Hemingway	Yes	Yes	No
2018	The Perfection	Yes	Yes	Yes

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer
2009	I Knew It Was You	Yes	Yes	No
2023	Film Geek	Yes	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Notes
1996	The Royale	Yes	No	TV movie
2001	Class Warfare	Yes	No
2006	Ugly Betty	Yes	No	Episode "Pilot" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
2008	30 Rock	Yes	No	Episode 210
2011	Danni Lowinski	Yes	No	Unaired pilot
	Ringer	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2013	Girls	Yes	No	12 episodes
	Golden Boy	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2014	Salem	Yes	Yes	Episode "The Vow"
2018	Sweetbitter	Yes	Yes	Episode "Salt"
2019	The Twilight Zone	Yes	No	Episode "The Wunderkind"
2020	Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot", film "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas"
2021	The Handmaid's Tale	Yes	No	Episodes "Vows" and "Home"
	Acapulco	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2022	Welcome to Chippendales	Yes	No	Episodes "Paper Is Paper" and "Switzerland"
TBA	Blank Slate	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"

External links

• Official website
• Richard Shepard at IMDb
• eFilmCritic.com Interview with director Richard Shepard on the John Cazale Documentary "I Knew It Was You" Archived 2025-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Richard Shepard Interview on Scripts & Scribes