MEET THE DIRECTORS OF JESSICA JONES, SEASON TWO

Anna Foerster - Episode 1 "AKA Start at the Beginning"

Bio from Wikipedia

As a second unit cinematographer, Foerster worked on the films Alien Resurrection (1997), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), Johnson Family Vacation (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Æon Flux (2005) and 10,000 BC (2008), also working as a second unit director on the latter four films.

She was the cinematographer for the visual effects and/or miniature unit on Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Pitch Black (2000) and Stuart Little 2(2002).

As a director, she directed five episodes of the television series Criminal Minds, an episode of its spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, three episodes of Unforgettable, and four episodes of the Starz series Outlander.

Foerster made her feature film directing debut with the action horror film Underworld: Blood Wars (2016).

Minkie Spiro - Episode 2 "AKA Freak Accident"

Mini bio from IMDB

Minkie is a Fulbright scholar who graduated with a First Class Honours degree from Central St. Martins School in London. She began her professional life as a photographer, her work being exhibited internationally. She would go on to complete a Masters degree in Film Directing at the Royal College of Art in London. Her early short films received critical acclaim, being awarded at several international film festivals. After graduating she began to make award winning documentaries and soon entered the arena of dramas and pilots for prime time television. In 2004 Minkie was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Newcomer to TV Fiction.

Mairzee Almas - Episode 3 "AKA Sole Survivor"

Bio from MairzeeAlmas.com

Mairzee Almas has been directing television in the US and Canada for over 15 years. She began her career as a PA and went onto become a first AD on features and television. Eventually, she directed an episode of Smallville and her career took off from there. She’s directed on multiple genre-driven shows like THE 100, THE LAST SHIP, ARROW, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, 12 MONKEYS, IZOMBIE amongst many others. Her directing work encompasses network, basic, premium cable and streaming outlets.

Mairzee received her formal education from both the Vancouver Film School Foundation Film Program and the 2 year actor training program at The F.T.S. Performing Arts Conservatory in Vancouver.

She’s been nominated for multiple directing awards including for Smallville and Motive.

She lives in Vancouver and works all around the world.

Deborah Chow - Episode 4 "AKA God Help the Hobo"

Bio from Wikipedia

Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Two of her first short films, Daypass (2002) and The Hill (2004) have both won awards at various international film festivals. She is best known for her first feature film, which she wrote and directed, The High Cost of Living. Her recent directorial works include the TV movie adaption of Flowers in the Attic and episodes of the series Copper, Murdoch Mysteries, Reign, Beauty and the Beast, and Mr. Robot.

Her short film, Daypass, won the Best Actor Award at the Milano Film Festival and the Best Short at the Turin Film Festival. The feature-length screenplay version of the film won the Comedy Central Award for Best Comedy Screenplay. Chow was the winner of the 2005 Kodak New Vision Mentorship award for her short film The Hill, the winnings from which included funding for her first feature film. She was a participant in the Berlinale Talent Campus, Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, and the Praxis Screenwriting Lab. Her debut feature film The High Cost of Living won Best First Feature and Top Ten at the Toronto International Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature at the Female Eye Film Fest, and Prix Super-Écran at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.

Millicent B. Shelton - Episode 5 "AKA The Octopus"

Bio from Wikipedia

Millicent B. Shelton is an American music video, television and film director.

Shelton began her career as a wardrobe production assistant on the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989). She went on to direct music videos for artists such as Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, CeCe Peniston and Salt-n-Pepa.

Her other directing credits include the motion picture Ride (1998) and episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, The Bernie Mac Show, Girlfriends, Castle, Californication, My Name Is Earl, 90210, Men of a Certain Age, Pan Am, Leverage, and 30 Rock, for which she became the first African-American woman to earn a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the episode "Apollo, Apollo". She is an alumna of Princeton University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Jet Wilkinson - Episode 6 "AKA Facetime"

Bio from IMDB

Jet Wilkinson is a Director/Producer from Sydney, Australia.

She has directed over 200 episodes of Australian Television Drama. Jet is a two time nominee at the Australian Director's Guild Awards in the category of Best Achievement in Direction for a Television Drama Series for her work on Crownies and All Saints.

In 2015 Wilkinson expanded her career into the U.S. market, signing with The Gersh Agency and has been directing U.S. prime time network and streaming shows ever since. She is now the Co-Executive Producer and director of How to Get Away with Murder season 4, starring Viola Davis.

Jennifer Getzinger -Episode  7 "AKA I Want Your Cray Cray"

Bio from Wikipedia

For much of her career [Jennifer] worked as a script supervisor on a number of notable films including The Prophecy (1995), Phantoms (1998), Clay Pigeons (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), and The Devil Wears Prada (2006). She was also script supervisor for the television series Strangers with Candy, Sex and the City, The Comeback, The Sopranos and Mad Men, making her episodic directorial debut on the latter series.She was nominated for two Directors Guild of America Awards for directing the Mad Men episodes "The Gypsy and the Hobo" (season 3, episode 11; 2009) and "The Suitcase" (season 4, episode 7; 2010).

Her other television directing credits are Hung, Men of a Certain Age and The Killing. In 1998, she directed the independent film Blue Christmas, which was written by her older brother, the late Scott Getzinger. She also wrote and directed the short film Save Me in 2006.

Zetna Fuentes - Episode 8 "AKA Ain't We Got Fun"

Bio from Wikipedia

Zetna Fuentes is an American television director. She was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for work on the soap opera One Life to Live, as a part of the directing team.

Fuentes is also a theatre director, having directed a number of New York Off-Broadway productions. She was born and raised in the Bronx, New York

Rosemary Rodriguez - Episode 9 "AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed"

Bio from Wikipedia

Rosemary Rodriguez is a film and television director. In 2001 Rodriguez wrote, produced and directed a feature film called Acts of Worship, about a young woman struggling with drug addiction. The film was nominated for, and won, numerous independent film awards as well as film festival awards.

Rodriguez has worked as a director on many United States television series, including The Walking Dead, Third Watch, Law & Order, Rescue Me, Castle, Criminal Minds, Undercovers, Without a Trace, Elementary and Jessica Jones. Recently she has directed episodes of two CBS drama series: The Good Wife and Blue Bloods, as well as episode 2 in the 8th season of the AMC show The Walking Dead.

Neasa Hardiman - Episode 10 "AKA Pork Chop"

Bio from Wikipedia

Neasa Hardiman is an Irish director of both fiction and nonfiction, predominantly known for her television work.

Hardiman began her career producing a number of shows for the RTÉ network in Ireland and has since worked on both British and American productions. Her television credits include the children's drama series Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), the crime dramas Scott & Bailey (2014) and Happy Valley (2016), the American period drama Z: The Beginning of Everything and the upcoming Marvel superhero series Inhumans (both 2017).

Jennifer Lynch - Episode 11 "AKA Three Lives and Counting"

Bio taken from Wikipedia

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter, also known for writing the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. She is the daughter of David Lynch.

 Jennifer has directed Boxing Helena, Surveillance, Hisss, Chained, A Fall from Grace. 

Lynch has also directed episodes of many television series such as Jessica Jones, Finding Carter, Psych, Quantico, Teen Wolf, The Walking Dead, The Last Ship, Wayward Pines, American Horror Story, The Strain, Once Upon a Time, and Hawaii Five-0.

Liz Friedlander - Episode 12 "AKA Pray for My Patsy"

Bio from Wikipedia

Originally from New York City, Friedlander moved to Pennsylvania to attend the Drama Conservatory school at Carnegie Mellon University.　

She then moved to Los Angeles where she attended the University of California Santa Cruz followed by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where she graduated as the valedictorian of her class. She also won the Frank S. Glicksman Award for her short film Eleven-Twenty.

Since the mid-1990s she has amassed a number of music video credits directing videos for Alanis Morissette, U2, Megadeth, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Celine Dion, R.E.M., 3 Doors Down and among other artists. In 2006, she directed her first feature film Take the Lead starring Antonio Banderas. Beginning in 2008, Friedlander moved on to television, directing episodes of One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, Privileged, Pretty Little Liars, 90210, Melrose Place, Outlaw and Gossip Girl.

Uta Briesewitz - Episode 13  "AKA Playland"

Bio from The Wired Wiki

Uta Briesewitz is a German American cinematographer. She was the Director of Photography for the first, second, & third seasons of The Wire. She has also worked on HBO films Life Support and the HBO series John From Cincinnati and Hung. She was the cinematographer for the films Session 9 (2001), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), and Arthur (2011).