BIO

Serena Schuler is an award-winning writer, director, and series creator. Inspired by her experience in the tech industry, she created the comedy MAKESHIFT SOCIETY, an indie episodic series about female startup founders. To film the pilot episode, she fundraised from Silicon Valley CEOs, venture capitalists, and startup founders. They were inspired by her passion to tell this ground-breaking story about women in tech (featured in Forbes).

Serena’s sketch comedy series CAKE WALK, about the crazy events leading up to a wedding, is currently streaming on Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaha.  Her music video TOO MUCH LOVE was a finalist in the Rachel Bloom Comedy Short Challenge.

Her first film, THE TEN PLAGUES, won Audience Awards at the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. The story follows a young woman en route to her family's Passover Seder who has a wake-up call of biblical proportions in the form of the modern-day Ten Plagues. But the worst plague of all: she must face her family.

A staged reading of her play POWER POSE, a psychological thriller, was held at Berkeley Rep.

Off set, she is a member of Women in Film, Alliance of Women Directors, and Cinefemme. Previously, she co-led Dinner with Dames, a dinner series which extends the network for women in film.  She has produced dinners with industry leaders including Blye Faust (Oscar-winning producer of SPOTLIGHT).

Serena is passionate about encouraging kids to pursue writing and filmmaking. She is an Assistant Director at Arc Stages Theater, and has coached creative writing with Young Storytellers, a screenwriting program which culminates a live staging of the fifth graders’ scripts by improv comedians. She was the keynote speaker of the inaugural Noe Valley Girls Film Festival.

Serena graduated with honors from Cornell University and received a masters in psychology from Columbia University.  She was on the women's rowing team at Cornell, and won the silver medal in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (EAWRC) Sprints.  Before becoming a filmmaker, she worked in the tech industry for seven years, and continues to work at the intersection of film and technology.