Daisy von Scherler Mayer is an American film and television director. She has directed the feature films PARTY GIRL, MADELINE, THE GURU and SOME GIRL(S). Her TV directing credits include: YELLOWJACKETS, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, SHINING VALE, INVENTING ANNA, MADE FOR LOVE, THE WALKING DEAD, BOSCH, GET SHORTY, RAY DONOVAN, HOUSE OF LIES, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, HALT AND CATCH FIRE, MOZART IN THE JUNGLE, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, NURSE JACKIE, SHAMELESS and MAD MEN.
2023 was a stellar year for von Scherler Mayer with a theatrical re-release of her film, PARTY GIRL and numerous prestige television episodes. She returned to the Emmy nominated drama YELLOWJACKETS to helm the season premiere and penultimate episode, directed an episode of the final season of THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, worked with Jennifer Garner on the hit thriller, THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME and directed the season 2 finale of the horror-comedy SHINING VALE, starring Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear.
The 1995 Sundance Film Festival marked the debut of von Scherler Mayer’s critically acclaimed PARTY GIRL, which she co-wrote with Harry Birckmayer. The film launched “indie queen” Parker Posey and led to a Fox television series. In 2023, Fun City Editions issued a 4K Restoration Blu-Ray of PARTY GIRL. The reissue sold out, ran on the Criterion Channel and led to a theatrical re-release of this "cult classic" in art houses across the US, and in Canada and the UK. PARTY GIRL screened at the Museum of Modern Art and BAM in NY and is part of a permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
After PARTY GIRL, von Scherler Mayer directed a film adaptation of the classic children's book MADELINE which starred Oscar winner Frances McDormand. She followed this with the Bollywood-influenced comedy THE GURU, starring Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei, for Working Title Films. She then returned to her indie roots with a low budget adaptation of Neil LaBute's play SOME GIRL(S) starring Adam Brody, Emily Watson, Zoe Kazan and Kristen Bell. As a television director, von Scherler Mayer has directed hour-long dramas and half-hour comedies for network, cable and streaming, including ABC, NBC, CBS, AMC, Showtime, Starz, Amazon, Netflix, AppleTV, Epix and Hulu. In 2019, she received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her work on THE WALKING DEAD.
A native New Yorker, von Scherler Mayer worked backstage at the Delacorte Theater as a teen and in her early 20s was a production assistant for Sidney Lumet and Mira Nair. She trained at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Circle in the Square and the Atlantic Theater Company. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University, von Scherler Mayer received High Honors in Theater and studied with film historian Jeanine Basinger. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film and television composer David Carbonara, and their two daughters.