Jon Amiel is a director/writer/producer with an illustrious career in theater, film and television. After 10 years working his way from fringe theater to the Royal Shakespeare Company, he moved to television and a career with the BBC that culminated in the multi-award-winning The Singing Detective. Over the next 15 years Amiel directed a number of major feature films including; Sommersby with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere, Cppycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter, Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones, The Man Who Knew Too Little with Bill Murray, The Core with Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, and Creation with Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.

Since then he has focused largely on television, directing the pilots for Eyes, Reunion and The Wedding Bells, and directing and producing episodes for shows as diverse as The Tudors, The Borgias, Halt and Catch Fire, 7 Seconds, Aquarius, Outsiders, American Gods, The Cleaning Lady, Carnival Row and The Walking Dead.