Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She was the winner of the 2007

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for directing the episode " The Whole Truth" of the ABC hit series '' Lost''. Gaviola was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Network) Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the

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series '' Private Practice''.

Life and career

Karen is a second-generation Filipina American. She is a graduate of Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) and

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. Gaviola has directed over 140 TV episodes, including the shows ''

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'', '' Shadow and Bone'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Chicago Fire''. More recently, she has worked as a co-executive producer/director on a number of projects including ''

'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' Magnum P.I.'' and '' Love Is'' for

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. Her latest project is '' Paper Girls'', the new Amazon series based on the graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan. Gaviola was elected in June 2013 to the National Board of the ''

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''. She is currently serving her fifth term. She is active with the DGA TV Creative Rights Committee, the Women's Steering Committee, the Asian American Committee, and the Diversity Task Force. In 2022, Gaviola was named as co-chair of the 2023 DGA/AMPTP Negotiations Committee. Karen is also a member of the

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, the

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, and Film Independent.

Filmography

References

NAACP Image Award winnersOfficial DGA website
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External links

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Official DGA websiteKaren Gaviola website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaviola, Karen American television directors American women television directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard College alumni Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) alumni