Beth McCarthy-Miller (born September 3, 1963) is an American television director.^[1] Shows she has directed includeSaturday Night Live and30 Rock.^[2]

McCarthy-Miller was born on September 3, 1963, inElizabeth,New Jersey. She has four older brothers and four older sisters.^[3] She was raised inCranford, New Jersey.^[4] She attended theUniversity of Maryland, where she was a DJ and majored in radio, television and film. While in college she interned atCNN andMTV.^[5]

She is married to a high school teacher, with whom she has a son born around 2006.^[6]

McCarthy-Miller worked as a line producer's assistant and assistant director at MTV and began directing in 1988. During her nine years with MTV, she worked onMTV Unplugged withNirvana,Neil Young,Elton John,Tony Bennett, andk.d. lang.^[7] She worked forThe Week in Rock and laterThe Jon Stewart Show.^[5]

She was the director ofNBC'sSaturday Night Live for eleven years.^[8] She leftSNL in 2006 at the end of season 31, replaced as director byDon Roy King.^[9] She became a director forViacom'sMTV again in 2003 when she directed theMTV Video Music Awards.

She currently works through her own companies, Catalyst Entertainment and McBeth Productions as a director and producer.^{[citation needed]}

• Beth McCarthy-Miller atIMDb
• Wake Forest University profile: Beth McCarthy
• Beth McCarthy-Miller atThe Interviews: An Oral History of Television