---
name: "Katy Garretson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katy-garretson"
fi1m_id: "katy-garretson"
imdb_id: "nm0005601"
tmdb_id: 1212909
wikidata_id: "Q6378502"
roles: ["Second assistant director","Director"]
born: "15 May 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T12:23:21.550728+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Katy Garretson

## Identity

Katy Garretson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/katy-garretson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** katy-garretson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005601
- **TMDB ID:** 1212909
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6378502
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Garretson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6378502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005601/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212909

Second assistant director and director. Born 15 May 1963 in Nuremberg, West Germany [now Germany].

## Details

- **Work:** Second assistant director, Director
- **Born:** 15 May 1963, Nuremberg, West Germany [now Germany]
- **Active:** 1991–1993
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Garretson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6378502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005601/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212909

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) (88)

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## Biography

Katy Garretson is an American television director and former assistant director. Born Kathleen Elizabeth Garretson in Nuremberg, West Germany, she graduated from the University of Southern California with degrees in journalism and business communications. She began her career as a stand-in and DGA trainee before working as an assistant director on features including *Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country* (1991) and several television movies.

Garretson served as an assistant director on the sitcom *Frasier* (1993–2004) before making her directorial debut on the series in its sixth season. She directed multiple episodes of *Frasier* and later episodes of series including *2 Broke Girls*, *Fuller House*, *Reba*, *George Lopez* and *Young & Hungry*. In 2012 she received the Frank Capra Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, katygarretson.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Frasier* (1993), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country* (1991), Fi1m 74, Second Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Punky Brewster* (2021), series, Director
- *Garage Sale Mysteries: Searched & Seized* (2021), Supervising Producer
- *Broke* (2020), series, Director
- *Carol's Second Act* (2019), series, Director
- *The Cool Kids* (2018), series, Director
- *Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder In D Minor* (2018), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mysteries: Picture a Murder* (2018), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mysteries: The Mask Murder* (2018), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mysteries: The Pandora's Box Murders* (2018), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder* (2017), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: Murder Most Medieval* (2017), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: Murder By Text* (2017), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder* (2017), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder* (2017), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: The Novel Murders* (2016), Supervising Producer
- *Fuller House* (2016), series, Director
- *Garage Sale Mystery: Guilty Until Proven Innocent* (2016), Supervising Producer
- *Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room* (2015), Supervising Producer
- *One Big Happy* (2015), series, Director
- *Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters* (2014), Supervising Producer
- *Young & Hungry* (2014), series, Director
- *Garage Sale Mystery* (2013), Supervising Producer
- *2 Broke Girls* (2011), series, Director
- *Shake It Up* (2010), series, Director
- *True Jackson, VP* (2008), series, Director
- *Rita Rocks* (2008), series, Director
- *Sid the Science Kid* (2008), series, Director
- *Freddie* (2005), series, Director
- *Love, Inc.* (2005), series, Director
- *The Bad Girl's Guide* (2005), series, Director
- *Living with Fran* (2005), series, Director
- *Cuts* (2005), series, Director
- *The Pitts* (2003), series, Director
- *Wanda at Large* (2003), series, Director
- *George Lopez* (2002), series, Director
- *Reba* (2001), series, Director
- *Girlfriends* (2000), series, Director
- *Titus* (2000), series, Director
- *In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped* (1995), Second Assistant Director
- *Double Dragon* (1994), Second Assistant Director
- *Clifford* (1994), Second Assistant Director
- *Frasier* (1993), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)
- *Baby of the Bride* (1991), Second Assistant Director
- *Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country* (1991), Second Assistant Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country.md)
- *Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind* (1991), Second Assistant Director
- *Cop* (1988), as Stand In

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