Sharron Miller
Sharron Miller is an American television and film director, producer, and screenwriter. She has also worked as a sound editor and film editor. Miller was the first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award (DGA Award) for directing drama. She was one of the pioneering women directors (along with Joan Darling, Gabrielle Beaumont, and Karen Arthur), who worked regularly in mainstream Hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s.In 1984, she won the DGA Award, two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award and the Christopher Award for the Afterschool Special she produced and directed, The Woman Who Willed a Miracle[1]. This true-life drama is about Leslie Lemke, the blind and mentally retarded boy with cerebral palsy who became world-famous as a savant pianist.