Jennifer Liao
Jennifer Liao directs films and TV shows, and has also been known to write and produce them on occasion. Visit her IMDb page to view her credits in a more organized fashion. Jennifer posts on Bluesky at @averagejenn.bsky.social, 'grams at @believerville, and uploads videos once in a blue moon to Vimeo.(Profile photo by Megan Vincent)
Jennifer directed two acclaimed episodes of the first season of FROM, a contemporary sci-fi horror series produced by MGM, Midnight Radio, and AGBO, starring Harold Perrineau. The episodes, “All Good Things…” (Episode 1.7) and “Broken Windows, Open Doors” (Episode 1.8), can be streamed in the United States on MGM+ and in Canada on Paramount+.Jennifer has also directed six episodes of CBC’s long-running period drama MURDOCH MYSTERIES: “Patriot Games”, “Pendrick’s Planetary Parlour”, “Whatever Happened to Abigail Prescott”, “Just Desserts”, “A Most Surprising Bond”, and “Engaged To Be Murdered”, available in the U.S. on Ovation and Acorn, and the HUDSON & REX episode "Dancer, Traitor, Shepherd, Spy".Her previous directorial works also include “Imposter” for The CW primetime anthology series TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES, Lifetime’s first Asian-American holiday rom-com, A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY, for which she was nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada Award, Hallmark’s A BIG FAT FAMILY CHRISTMAS (also available in Canada on Crave), and the TV movie thriller DERANGED GRANNY starring Wendie Malick and Amanda Righetti.Jennifer's first TV series was the multilingual crime/family drama BLOOD AND WATER for OMNI, on which she was a writer and director, and she made her feature film directorial debut with the microbudgeted supernatural dark comedy END OF DAYS, INC.She was one of the 12 filmmakers selected to be a part of the TIFF Writers' Studio in 2018/19 with an original series project. Jennifer recently won comic book publisher Mad Cave Studios' 2025 Talent Search in the writing category.
Representation and Links
Carmen Bonnici at Pacific Artists
Katy McCaffrey / Jonathan Martin at Gersh