Biography

Serena Schuler is an award-winning writer and director. She created the series Makeshift Society, which premiered at Dances With Films, and was featured in Deadline and Forbes. Her work spotlights diverse, female-led stories through the lens of comedy. A graduate of Cornell and Columbia, her films have screened in festivals around the world, and won Audience Awards at the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. Her series Cake Walk is now streaming on the WhoHaha Network created by Elizabeth Banks.

She also works in sustainable film production, to bring down the carbon footprint of filmmaking. Most recently she worked on the Amazon feature film The Man With The Bag, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, and Awkwafina.

She's passionate about gender inclusion behind the camera. She co-led Dinner with Dames, a dinner series which extends the network for women and gender non-binary individuals in film, with industry leaders such as Blye Faust (Oscar-winning producer of Spotlight). Serena uses her platform to inspire young girls and non-binary youth to pursue careers in the arts, in her work with the Noe Valley Girls Film Festival, youth theater, and the Young Storytellers Foundation.
- IMDb mini biography by: Serena Schuler