Joan Tewkesbury

Joan Tewkesbury born April 8 1936 is an American film and television director screenwriter playwright author producer choreographer and actress She had a long association with the celebrated director Robert Altman writing the screenplays for Thieves Like Us 1974 and Nashville 1975 widely regarded as Altmans masterpiece and which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay She has directed numerous hours of episodic television including for Disney HBO CBS TNT and NBC Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Tewkesbury licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia