| Juliet May | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Television director |
Juliet May is a British television director. She has directed a variety of television shows, including Challenge Anneka, Dalziel and Pascoe, Hope and Glory New Tricks and the award-winning Miranda.
May oversaw all eight episodes of Heil Honey I'm Home! in 1990, a sitcom featuring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun for British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990; only the pilot was ever transmitted. In 1995, she was nominated for a BAFTA award for Rory Bremner, Who Else?, and won a BAFTA Children's Award in 1999 for Microsoap Produced by Andy Rowley, with whom May has collaborated on a number of productions.[1]
She directed all twelve episodes of Steven Moffat's 1997 school-based sitcom Chalk.[2] She then directed Robert Bathurst in My Dad's the Prime Minister, and Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West. She also directed some episodes of series V of Red Dwarf.[3] She found it hard to work with the science fiction elements of the series[4] and left before the series had completed. The remaining episodes were directed by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.[5]
In 2008, she directed the BBC film Dustbin Baby. May then went on to direct the BBC sitcom Miranda, starring Miranda Hart.