Shane Elizabeth is an award-winning writer who lives her life fueled by the words she writes. Her ability to jump off the page along with her characters through a unique signature style of writing brings integrity, laughter, and attitude back to the written word.  She is the 2019 Grand Prize Winner of the ISA Sundance Screenwriting Competition and has gone on to win or place in several competitions since. She has a fifteen year background in development and story producing for unscripted television, working on shows such as Anthony Bourdain's The Taste for ABC, The Real World, Project Runway and many more. Shane also holds a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of California - Riverside in Creative Non-fiction and holds a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Illinois. She holds certificates from  UCLA's two-year Graduate Professional Program in both Screenwriting and TV writing as well.  Adopted at birth and born legally deaf, Shane is diverse through a disability she has turned into an ability. This lack of one sense has caused her others to heighten, allowing Shane to observe life in very detailed ways, which in return, she uses in her characters and storytelling. She reads lips and uses hearing aids which allows for this “lack of” to go virtually unnoticed by others. Whereas, her adoption, she uses as motivation to tell elevated stories written with heart, sprinkled in comedy, but always addressing dramatic situations taken from characters who find themselves on the path least taken. Currently, she is working on her memoir while in development for a biopic feature she was hired to write where she is set to co-produce as well.