Director

Billy Shebar

Directing

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.7

Low visibility

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1659869

IMDb ID: nm0790515

Known for: Directing

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2008 - 2025

Years active: 18

Average TMDB rating: 5.5

Wikidata: Q134489105

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Story (1)

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Biography

Billy Shebar is an Emmy-nominated director whose feature documentary Monk in Pieces premiered at the 2025 Berlinale, where it was nominated for a Teddy Award. Other credits include High Noon on the Waterfront (2022), with John Turturro and Edward Norton, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was broadcast on TCM and HBO; and Dark Matter (2007), starring Meryl Streep, which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance. He collaborated with animator Bill Plympton on the New York Times viral web series Trump Bites (2018-2020), and with animator Yoni Goodman on the three-part crime series Doctor’s Orders (2021), which continues to stream on Max, Hulu, Amazon, and other platforms.