Daisy von Scherler Mayer

After contributing to the New York Shakespeare Festival as a teen, Von Scherler Mayer graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in theater and history. Von Scherler Mayer’s experience with theater served as a foundation for her upcoming career as a director, where she would later apply her understanding of stage acting to her work for the screen. Upon graduating from Wesleyan, Von Scherler Mayer went on to direct contemporary interpretations of classic plays such as Euripides' Electra, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Since Party Girl, Von Scherler Mayer has been writing and directing films, as well as directing television productions. Von Scherler Mayer directed Madeline, a 1998 film based on Ludwig Bemelmans’ famous children’s books about the adventures of a young redhaired French girl. Madeline starred Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne and Hatty Jones as Madeline.

Von Scherler Mayer's feature-film directing debut was the 1995 film Party Girl. She also co-wrote the film, which starred Parker Posey and von Scherler Mayer's mother, with her partner Harry Birckmayer. The success of the film led to a Fox television series starring Christine Taylor.

Daisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer (born March 14, 1965) is an American film and television director.

Mayer is the daughter of actress Sasha von Scherler (1934–2000) and Paul Avila Mayer (1928–2009). Through her father, she was a grandchild of American screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer and, through her mother, she was a grandchild of Prussian aristocrat Baron Walram Voystingus Albert Alexander von Schoeler.