Jerry Pilato is an American

United States

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 director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

 of television shows and theatrical plays. He has worked on the ABC Daytime

ABC Daytime

ABC Daytime is a programming block on the ABC Network which has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows and talk shows.-Schedule:...

 drama series All My Children

All My Children

All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...

, for which he has received four Daytime Emmy wins and fifteen nominations. He has also directed plays such as The Foreigner

The Foreigner (play)

The Foreigner is a play by Larry Shue.Set in a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the comedy revolves around two of its guests, Englishman Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Charlie is so pathologically shy that he is unable to speak...

, Four Dogs and a Bone, The Reindeer Monologues, Chicago (play)

Chicago (play)

Chicago is a 1926 play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. It was based on two unrelated 1924 cases of two women, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, who were both suspected and later acquitted for murder, that Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter...

, Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon.-Plot:The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel...

, When Pigs Fly

When Pigs Fly (musical)

When Pigs FlyA musical revue in 2 acts. Conceived by Howard Crabtree and Mark Waldrop. Sketches and Lyrics by Mark Waldrop. Music by Dick Gallagher.- External links :**...

, I Hate Hamlet

I Hate Hamlet

I Hate Hamlet is a dramatic comedy written in 1991 by Paul Rudnick. Set in John Barrymore's old apartment in New York City - at the time, the author's real-life home - the play follows successful television actor Andrew Rally as he struggles with taking on the dream role of Hamlet, dealing with a...

, First Night

First Night

First Night is an artistic and cultural celebration on New Year's Eve, taking place from afternoon until midnight. Some cities have all their events during the celebration outside, but some cities have events that are hosted indoors by organizations in the city, such as churches and theaters...

, American Buffalo

American Buffalo (play)

American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions, it opened on Broadway on February 16, 1977...

, If We are Women, and Taking Sides

Taking Sides (play)

Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-War U.S. denazification investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. Harwood drew inter alia on a detailed diary kept by Furtwängler of his...

.

Pilato attended the San Antonio College

San Antonio College

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 and the University of the Incarnate Word

University of the Incarnate Word

The University of the Incarnate Word is a private Catholic university located within the cities of San Antonio and Alamo Heights in Texas, United States....

. He also attended the Toul American High School in France

France

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. He currently resides in San Antonio, California

California

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.

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy awards:

• Nominated, 2000, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
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• Nominated, 2000, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2001, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2001, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2002, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children"
• Won, 2002, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Won, 2003, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children"
• Won, 2003, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2004, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2005, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children"
• Won, 2005, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "All My Children"
• Nominated, 2008, Outstanding Original Song for: "All My Children" song "The Me Inside"
• Nominated, 2008, Outstanding Original Song for: "All My Children" song "Treasure of Love"
• Nominated, 2008, Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team for: "All My Children" (shared with Casey Childs
  Casey Childs
  Casey Childs is the Founder and Executive Producer of Primary Stages Company, a New York State non-profit, off-Broadway theatre company in New York City...
  
   (director)

Conal O'Brien

Conal O'Brien

Conal O'Brien is an American television soap opera director. He has worked in daytime television for nearly 23 years.His father, Vince O'Brien, appeared in several soap operas, in addition to roles in Annie Hall and as the Shell Answer Man.-Positions held:All My Children* Director * Fight Director...

 (director)
Michael V. Pomarico

Michael V. Pomarico

Michael V. Pomarico is an American television soap opera director. He has been working on daytime for nearly 22 years. He has a wife Mary and 2 children Joseph and Jennifer-Positions held:All My Children...

 (director)
Angela Tessinari

Angela Tessinari

-Positions held:* Director on The City , As the World Turns , and All My Children * Associate Director on The Guiding Light , and Loving-Awards and nominations:...

 (director)
Steven Williford (director)
Anthony Pascarelli (associate director)
Barbara M. Simmons (associate director)
Shirley Simmons (associate director)
Terry Walker (associate director)
Penny Bergman (stage manager)
Fritz Brekeller (stage manager)
Rusty Swope (stage manager)
Marika Brancato
Jennifer Minda

Alamo Theatre Arts Council awards: He has received Best Director awards for Chicago, When Pigs Fly, I Hate Hamlet, First Night, American Buffalo, If We are Women, and Taking Sides.

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