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Shawn Pipkin

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Director
  • Producer
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Shawn Pipkin
Shawn Pipkin is known for Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), Work Retreat (2024) and A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020).
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      • 5 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Known for

    John Kani, Seth Rogen, Kagiso Lediga, Preston Nyman, Billy Eichner, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Blue Ivy Carter, and Aaron Pierre in Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
    Mufasa: The Lion King
    6.6
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2024
    Work Retreat (2024)
    Work Retreat
    4.3
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    Rob Lowe and Martin Sheen in A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
    A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
    8.4
    TV Special
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2020
    MO (2020)
    MO
    Short
    • Director
    • 2020

    Credits

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • The 'Burbs (2026)
      The 'Burbs
      6.4
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2026
    • John Kani, Seth Rogen, Kagiso Lediga, Preston Nyman, Billy Eichner, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Blue Ivy Carter, and Aaron Pierre in Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
      Mufasa: The Lion King
      6.6
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • The Chi (2018)
      The Chi
      7.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Shawn 'Pip' Pipkin-West)
      • 2024
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Martin Freeman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, and Kingsley Ben-Adir in Secret Invasion (2023)
      Secret Invasion
      5.8
      TV Mini Series
      • first assistant director (as Shawn Pipkin-West)
      • 2023
    • John Stamos, Jessalyn Gilsig, Sara Echeagaray, Yvette Nicole Brown, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Cricket Wampler, Tisha Custodio, Tiana Le, and Nell Verlaque in Big Shot (2021)
      Big Shot
      7.4
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Shawn 'Pip' Pipkin-West)
      • 2021
    • Rob Lowe and Martin Sheen in A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
      A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
      8.4
      TV Special
      • first assistant director
      • 2020
    • Elizabeth Olsen in Sorry for Your Loss (2018)
      Sorry for Your Loss
      7.3
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2019
    • Ja'Siah Young in Raising Dion (2019)
      Raising Dion
      7.1
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2019
    • James Pickens Jr., Ellen Pompeo, and Chandra Wilson in Grey's Anatomy (2005)
      Grey's Anatomy
      7.6
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Shawn Pipkin-West)
      • 2019
    • Ben Shenkman, Britt Robertson, Regé-Jean Page, Wesam Keesh, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Susannah Flood in For the People (2018)
      For the People
      7.3
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2018
    • Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James in Shots Fired (2017)
      Shots Fired
      6.8
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2017
    • Mireille Enos and Peter Krause in The Catch (2016)
      The Catch
      7.1
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2017
    • Lemonade Mafia (2017)
      Lemonade Mafia
      7.0
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2017
    • Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Yolanda Robinson in Greenleaf (2016)
      Greenleaf
      7.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2016
    • Halle Berry in Extant (2014)
      Extant
      6.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • second assistant director
      • 2014–2015

    Director

    • CasaLuxe
      9.3
      TV Mini Series
      • directed by
      • 2026
    • Finola Hughes, Maurice Benard, Steve Burton, Genie Francis, Laura Wright, Donnell Turner, Tanisha Harper, Josh Kelly, Eden McCoy, Josh Swickard, and Tabyana Ali in General Hospital (1963)
      General Hospital
      6.7
      TV Series
      • directed by (as Shawn Pipkin-West)
      • 2025
    • Work Retreat (2024)
      Work Retreat
      4.3
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • MO (2020)
      MO
      Short
      • Director
      • 2020

    Producer

    • MO (2020)
      MO
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • The Water Phoenix (2017)
      The Water Phoenix
      6.7
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2017

    Personal details

    • Official sites
      • DEADLINE ARTICLE OF 2024 DGA DDI PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
      • DGA - DDI ANNOUNCEMENT
    • Alternative names
      • Shawn 'Pip' Pipkiin

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    • Gender / Gender identity
      • Female
    • Pronouns
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