Michael Lehmann

Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director known for directing the dark comedy Heathers. Early life and education In 1978, Lehmann graduated from Columbia University. Lehmann is of Jewish descent. Career Lehmann's first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders. Lehmann attended film school at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 1985. While at USC he made a student film, The Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later hire him.