Wendey Stanzler is an American

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

and

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. She was co-editor and associate producer of

Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various Social issue, social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut ...

's documentary '' Roger & Me'', in

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

. She also co-edited Moore's only fiction film, '' Canadian Bacon'' (

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

). Stanzler was hired as an editor for ''

Sex and the City ''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on Sex and the City (newspaper column), the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in th ...

'' and went on to become a guest director during the final season of the series. Stanzler has also edited for the series, '' Ed'' and '' Now and Again'' and the

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...

film Gray Matters (2007), directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Bridget Moynahan. She has directed several episodes of ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Middle'' and ''

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. It is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea' ...

'', all on ABC as well as '' The Vampire Diaries'', ''

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'', '' Parks and Recreation'' among other series. Stanzler was producer and director on the first season of the CW series '' 90210'' in 2008–2009. In 2011, she directed the pilot episode of the

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series '' The Nine Lives of Chloe King''. In 2015, she began directing episodes of ''

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'' in its second season and in the third season, she became a co-executive producer and directed the season's episodes with series creator Stephen Falk. She won the

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' Eddie Award twice: in 2004 for the ''Sex in the City'' episode "American Girl in Paris, part 2" and in 1990 for ''Roger & Me''. In 2003 and 2004, Stanzler was nominated for a

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for her editing work on ''Sex and the City''. Stanzler won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Directing for a Single-Camera Program for the Mysterious Benedict Society.

Selected television directing credits

*''

'' (1998) ** Episode 6.14 "The Ick Factor" *''

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'' (2002) ** Episode 5.16 "Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital" ** Episode 6.04 "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend" *''

'' (2004) ** Episode 2.11 " One More Kiss" ** Episode 2.21 " I Know Things Now" ** Episode 3.03 " A Weekend In the Country" ** Episode 3.08 " Children and Art" ** Episode 3.20 "

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" *''

'' (2001) ** Episode 1.09 "Who's Zoomin' Who?" ** Episode 2.04 "Deny, Deny, Deny" ** Episode 2.10 "Much too Much" ** Episode 2.19 "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" *'' Love Monkey'' (2006) ** Episode 1.05 "The Window" *'' Six Degrees'' (2006) ** Episode 1.03 "A New Light" *''

'' (2006–2010) ** Episode 1.14 "I'm Coming Out" ** Episode 2.5 "A League of Their Own" ** Episode 2.17 "The Kids Are Alright" ** Episode 4.4 "The Wiener, the Bun and the Boob" *'' Men in Trees'' (2006) ** Episode 1.13 "History Lessons" ** Episode 2.17 "New Dogs, Old Tricks" *'' Private Practice'' (2007) ** Episode 1.09 " In Which Dell Finds His Fight" *'' Samantha Who'' (2007) ** Episode 2.1 "So I Think I Can Dance" *'' Big Shots'' (2007) ** Episode 1.7 "Who's Your Daddy" *'' 90210'' (2008) ** Episode 1.2 "The Jet Set" ** Episode 1.10 "Games people plays" ** Episode 1.13 "Love Me or Leave Me" *'' Dollhouse'' (2009) ** Episode 2.6 "The Left Hand" *'' The Middle'' (2009–2010) ** Episode 1.7 "The Scratch" ** Episode 2.1 "Back to School" * '' The Vampire Diaries'' (2011–2012) ** Episode 2.17 "Know Thy Enemy" ** Episode 3.4 "Disturbing Behavior" ** Episode 3.11 "Our Town" ** Episode 4.6 "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes" * ''Glee'' (2013) ** Episode 4.21 " Wonder-ful" ** Episode 5.05 " The End of Twerk" * ''Pretty Little Liars'' **Episode 1.05 "Reality Bites Me" ** Episode 2.18 "A Kiss Before Lying" ** Episode 3.08 "Stolen Kisses" ** Episode 4.06 "Under The Gun" *''

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'' **1.12: "Vertigo" (2013) **2.5: "League of Assassins" (2013) **2.13: "Heir to the Demon" (2014) **3.2: "Sara" (2014) **3.22: "This is Your Sword" (2015) **4.3: "Restoration" (2015) **5.20: "Underneath" (2017) **6.11: ""We Fall" (2018) *''

The Flash The Flash is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (cover date, cover-dated Jan ...

'' **1.19: " Who Is Harrison Wells?" (2015) * '' Kevin (Probably) Saves the World'' **Episode 1.06 "Rocky Rad" (2017) * ''

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'' **Episode 1.11 "Beyond The TruffleDome" (2017) **Episode 2.13 "Ultra-Max" (2019) * '' Ghosted'' **Episode 1.12 "Hello Boys" (2018) *'' This Is Us'' **1.17: "What Now?" (2017) *'' Orange is the New Black'' **5.11: "Breaking the Fiberboard Ceiling" (2017) *''

Divorce Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the M ...

'' **2.3 "Worth It" (2018) *'' Mozart in the Jungle'' **4.9 "I Want You to Think of Me" (2018) *'' Reverie'' **1.10 "Point of Origin" (2018) *''

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'' **2.5 "The Egg is Pimping" (2018) *''

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'' **1.4 "Up All Night" (2018) **1.6 "Carleen?!" (2018) *'' Marvel's Runaways'' **2.8 "Past Life" (2018) *'' The Fix'' **1.5 "Lie to Me" (2019) *'' Dolly Parton's Heartstrings'' **1.2 "Two Doors Down" (2019) *'' Dispatches From Elsewhere'' **1.2 "Simone" (2020) *'' The Mysterious Benedict Society'' **1.4 "A Whisper, Not a Shout" (2021) *'' Made for Love'' **2.7 "Under Open Sky" (2022) **2.8 "Hazel vs. Hazel" (2022) *'' For All Mankind'' **3.3 "All In" (2022) **3.4 "Happy Valley" (2022) *'' Five Days at Memorial'' **1.6 "45 Dead" (2022) **1.7 "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (2022) **1.8 "The Reckoning" (2022) *''

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'' **1.13 "Wall of Fire" (2023) *''

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'' **2.3 "The Martyr's Hand" (2023) *''

'' **2.4 "An Unkindness of Ravens" (2023)

Television/film editing credits

*'' Gray Matters'' (2007) *'' Ed'' (2000) TV Series *'' Now and Again'' (1999) TV Series *''

'' (1998) TV Series ** Episode "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" ** Episode "Defining Moments" ** Episode "Just Say Yes" ** Episode "My Motherboard, My Self" ** Episode "Time and Punishment" ** Episode "What's Sex Got to Do with It?" *'' Nick and Jane'' (1997) *'' I'm Not Rappaport'' (1996) *'' Canadian Bacon'' (1995) *''The Pesky Suitor'' (1995) *''City Arts'' (1994) TV Series *''The Making of '...And God Spoke (1993) *'' The Last Party'' (1993) *'' Roger & Me'' (1989)

References

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