Biography

Daisy von Scherler Mayer is an American film and television director and producer. Recently, she was an executive producer and director on AppleTV’s The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Jennifer Garner - directing three of the eight episodes. In feature films, von Scherler Mayer has directed Party Girl, Madeline, The Guru and Some Girl(s). Other TV directing credits include: Yellowjackets, Invasion, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 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, Orange is the New Black, Shameless and Mad Men. In 2019, she received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her work on The Walking Dead. In 2026, von Scherler Mayer’s first film, Party Girl, was honored in the Retrospective section of the Berlinale film festival. A "cult classic" it debuted in 1995 at the Sundance Film Festival, launching the career of "indie queen" Parker Posey and a FOX television series. In 2023, Fun City Editions released a 4K Restoration Blu-Ray of Party Girl which sold out, ran on the Criterion Channel and led to a theatrical re-release in art houses across the US, and in Canada the UK, and Japan. In her follow up film, an adaptation of the children's book Madeline, starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand, von Scherler Mayer began a career of working across genres. For Working Title films she directed the Bollywood-influenced musical comedy The Guru, starring Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei and she returned to her indie roots with a low budget adaptation of Neil LaBute's play Some Girl(s), starring Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Emily Watson and Zoe Kazan. A native New Yorker, von Scherler Mayer worked backstage at the Delacorte Theater as a teen and in her 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 graduate of Wesleyan University, von Scherler Mayer received High Honors in Theater and studied film with Jeanine Basinger. She is married to film and television composer David Carbonara. They have two daughters.