Tanya Wexler

Tanya Wexler recently directed the critically acclaimed HYSTERIA, a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jones, Sheridan Smith, and Jonathan Pryce. The film premiered 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the summer of 2012. Wexler previously directed the feature films BALL IN THE HOUSE, which also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (released as RELATIVE EVIL) and starred Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn, Jonathan Tucker and Ethan Embry; and FINDING NORTH (Palm Springs Intl Film Festival, NY Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, LA Outfest, SF Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) starring Wendy Makkena and John Benjamin Hickey.

She attended the Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA in Film Direction) where she made two short films: THE DANCE (Telluride Intl. Film Festival, Seattle Intl. Film Festival) and COOL SHOES (Huston Intl. Film Fest Award Winner).

Wexler was born and raised in Chicago, IL, and received her BA in Psychology from Yale University. She currently resides in New York with her wife and four children and dog and mini-van.