Director / Producer / Film Educator

Deborah Reinisch

A career across television drama, public television, independent shorts, and formative work with Joel and Ethan Coen.

Television Film

Andre's MotherBullMadam SecretaryNCIS: New OrleansBlood SimpleRaising ArizonaSure Thing

Selected Directing

Recent television and enduring films

2021

Bull

Director

CBS

Truth and Reconciliation

2017-2019

NCIS: New Orleans

Director

CBS

Hard Knock Life, A House Divided

2017-2018

Madam Secretary

Director

CBS

The Seventh Floor, Sound and Fury

1990

Andre's Mother

Director / Producer

A PBS American Playhouse drama written by Terrence McNally and starring Sada Thompson, Richard Thomas, and Sylvia Sidney.

Named Outstanding Television Movie by the National Board of Review; McNally won the writing Emmy.

1996

A Step Toward Tomorrow

Director

A CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame drama starring Judith Light, Tom Irwin, and Alfre Woodard, with Christopher Reeve in his first acting role after his 1995 injury.

Approach

Story, craft, and the dignity of the set

"Producers are filmmakers too."

Deborah Reinisch, Sundance Institute interview