What We Do in the Shadows

Yana Gorskaya is an Emmy®-nominated director, editor and executive producer. She has helmed 22 episodes of What We Do in the Shadows and received four Emmy nominations for her work on the show. As an editor, she has collaborated with Taika Waititi on nearly all his films, including Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor Ragnorak, Jojo Rabbit and the feature version of What We Do in the Shadows (with co-director Jemaine Clement). She won the ACE Eddie Award for her first feature, the Oscar®-nominated documentary Spellbound.Her series directing work has made multiple appearances on best of the year lists for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The A.V. Club, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Vulture and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Additional directing credits include the NBC series Trial &amp; Error and the upcoming reboot of Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits.

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What We Do in the Shadows

Yana Gorskaya

Kyle Newacheck

Taika Waititi

Garrett Basch