Background
Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor in Theater Arts.
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Lily Mariye
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University of California, Los Los Angeles
Career
In 2012 Mariye was chosen to participate in the Disney/American Broadcasting Company/DGA Directing Program. In 2016 she directed Episode 14, Season 4 of American Broadcasting Company"s Nashville (2012 television series). Lily has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless, NCIS Los Angeles, Judging Amy, Ally McBeal, Family Ties, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Chicago Hope.
She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country.
She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which, The Shangri-la Cafe, was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature laboratories While at American Film Institute she produced and directed an Award-Winning Short version of the script.
(Best Short AwardMoondance International Festival, Best Screenplay AwardBrussels Independent Festival) The short film The Shangri-la Cafe was included on a Digital Video Disc release of American Film Institute shorts entitled "CELEBRATING American Film Institute.".
Achievements
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From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the National Broadcasting Company television series Emergency, for which she has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series four times. Lily Mariye"s debut feature film as a writer and director, Model Minority had its World Premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it received three awards: Special Jury Outstanding Director, Breakthrough Performance by a New Actor and Outstanding Cinematography as well as being a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize in Narrative Feature Filmmaking. Model Minority also won Best Micro-Budget Film and Best Female Director at The London Independent Film Festival, and Outstanding Feature at The Sacramento International Film Festival. The Shangri-la Cafe won Best Screenplay at the Ohio International Independent Film Festival and the Gaffers Film Festival, and won her a grant from the American Film Institute Conservatory"s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle.
