Katori Hall on Hiring All Female Directors for ‘P-Valley’

Variety: Katori Hall hired all women to direct her strip club dramedy “P-Valley” for Starz because she wanted to ensure the series showcased its stripper characters through an empathetic lens.

Although the playwright-turned-series creator and showrunner tells Variety she “did try to hire men,” during interviews she asked, “What is your definition of the female gaze? And I would say 10 times out of 10, the men did not have an answer to that question.”