Biography

Billy Shebar is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose feature documentary Monk in Pieces (2025), about the pioneering composer Meredith Monk, was an official selection and Teddy Award nominee at the 2025 Berlinale, and is now in release by Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber. His other credits include High Noon on the Waterfront (2022) with Edward Norton and John Turturro, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was broadcast on Turner Classic Movies and HBO; and Dark Matter (2007) starring Meryl Streep, which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He collaborated with animator Bill Plympton on the New York Times viral web series Trump Bites (2018), 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Billy Shebar