Paris Barclay

Paris K.C. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director and producer, and writer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 150 episodes of television to date, for series such as NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing, CSI, Lost, The Shield, House, Law & Order, Monk, Numb3rs, City of Angels, Cold Case, and more recently Sons of Anarchy, The Bastard Executioner, The Mentalist, Weeds, NCIS: Los Angeles, In Treatment, Glee, Smash and The Good Wife, Extant, and Manhattan, Empire, and Scandal. In 2016, Barclay worked as an executive producer and principal director for the Fox series Pitch. And most recently, Paris was tapped as the executive producer and director of the newest Shondaland show, Station 19, which follows a group of Seattle firefighters that exist in the Grey’s Anatomy universe and stars Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Grey Damon, Miguel Sandoval, Jay Hayden, Danielle Savre, Barrett Doss, Okierette Onadowan, and Alberto Frezza. The show is also executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, and Stacy McKee and set to premiere on ABC in March 2018. From 2013 to 2017, Barclay served two terms as the President of the Directors Guild of America. 2Early life Barclay was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He attended La Lumiere School, a private college preparatory boarding school in La Porte, Indiana. On scholarship, he was one of the first African-Americans to attend the school, Barclay went on to Harvard College, where he was extremely active in student musical theatre productions and the a cappella singing group The Harvard Krokodiloes. During his four years there, he wrote 16 musicals, including the music for two of the annual Hasty Pudding show