From our 2019 Sight, Sound & Story Post Production Summit - Editor Kate Sanford ACE, discusses how she brought out the passion of the Fosse/Verdon cast by intercutting three scenes that were not originally planned to be intercut.
Kate Sanford, ACE, is a feature film and television editor whose most recent project is the upcoming just released miniseries Fosse/Verdon. She recently completed the first two seasons of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and won the ACE award for best-edited comedy. Between seasons she edited "The Deuce" for writer/showrunner David Simon. Their long-running collaboration includes the 6-part miniseries "Show Me A Hero," the pilot for "Treme" (for which she won an ACE award for best-edited drama), and all five seasons of "The Wire" (for which she also won an ACE award for drama). Other television includes "Vinyl," executive produced by Martin Scorsese; all seasons of "Boardwalk Empire," and "Sex and the City." Kate’s selected film credits include the film version of David Mamet’s play "American Buffalo," starring Dustin Hoffman; "Outside Providence," written by Peter and Bobby Farrelly; and "Management," a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn written and directed by playwright Steven Belber. Kate edited actor-director Tim Blake Nelson’s movie "O," a modern retelling of Othello, and Nelson’s first independent feature, "Eye of God," which screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Fosse/Verdon" is an American biographical miniseries starring Sam Rockwell as director–choreographer Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams as actress and dancer Gwen Verdon. The series, which tells the story of the couple's troubled personal and professional relationship, is based on the biography Fosse by Sam Wasson. Norbert Leo Butz and Margaret Qualley also feature as Paddy Chayefsky and Ann Reinking, respectively. It premiered in eight parts on April 9, 2019, on FX.