David Trainer


David Trainer is an American television director. He is perhaps best known for directing every episode of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show and directed all the episodes of the Netflix sitcom The Ranch. He also directed the first two seasons of the television show Boy Meets World and over 60 episodes of Designing Women. Among many others, his directing credits also include several episodes of FM, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Anything But Love, My Boys, Hot in Cleveland and Mike & Molly.
He also wrote episodes for the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1977 and the sitcom Misery Loves Company which he co-created with Michael Jacobs and Bob Young in 1995.

Awards

Trainer was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Designing Women from 1989 to 1991.