JASON WINER

Jason Winer is a director and producer best known for the pilot of Modern Family, for which he won the DGA Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series. Winer was the producing director of Modern Family’s first season, receiving Emmy, Peabody, PGA, and AFI Awards. Over the show's eleven seasons, he directed twenty-four episodes, including classics “Fizbo”, “Dude Ranch”, and “Virgin Territory", for which he received his second directing Emmy nomination. Winer made his feature debut with Warner Brothers' “Arthur” starring Greta Gerwig, Helen Mirren, and Jennifer Garner. He followed that with IFC's “Ode to Joy”, a dramatic comedy starring Martin Freeman, Marena Baccarin, Jake Lacy, and Melissa Rauch. Over the course of his career, he has produced and directed eight television pilots that have gone to series, including “Life in Pieces”, “Single Parents”, “Perfect Harmony”, “The Santa Clauses”, and recently, Fox’s drama “The Big Leap”. A graduate of Northwestern University, where he double majored in Performance Studies and Photography, Winer honed his improv skills in the acclaimed comedy group, “The Mee-Ow Show", and later studied with Del Close himself at the Improv Olympic Theatre in Chicago.