Shane was born in Dublin and graduated with an honors degree in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin.  He is also a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting.   Shane’s latest short film, ROBIN, an uplifting tale about two suicide-attempt survivors who find solace in one another’s company through the intercession of a little bird who lives in their garden, just begun its 2020 festival run, having had its World Premiere at the 20th Beverly Hills International Film Festival.        In 2019 Shane signed a distribution deal for his comedic short, THE BARBER SHOP, which had its debut release on all Aer Lingus Transatlantic and European flights and screened as part of the Moscow / Irish Film Festival in March 20/20.  LUCKY ESCAPE, a comedic short, screened at numerous Academy Award festivals and sold to NBC, HBO, Atom.com, Channel 4, Shorts TV, Hulu and Amazon Prime.  It now has over 3.5 million views on SDGI’s channel.      His feature script, KOPKILLER, which centers on a New York City narcotics detective tasked with investigating her own murder, was a finalist in two categories at the 9th annual Oaxaca Film Festival 2018 in Mexico and won Best Crime / Mystery category at the 6th Annual Gotham Screen International Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2012.   His TV Pilot, FARC, about a young kidnap victim who struggles to reintegrate into society having spent 6 years held captive by Farc terrorists in the Colombian Jungles placed 1st at the 2016 Back in the Box Best Short Subject Screenplay Competition.   His TV series, NEIGHBOR HOODS, an elevated comedy set on the US / Mexican border, which Shane co-wrote and co-created, sees a desk bound FBI Agent tasked with babysitting 3 out-of-control crime families enrolled in Witness Relocation who end up living next door to each other, all blissfully unaware of their neighbors’ WITSEC status.    Shane’s feature script, MONEY TALKS, a black comedy about two sisters who meet for the very first time at their mother’s funeral and immediately decide to kill each other, was an Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 1/4 Finalist 2018.   THE BASE, a psychological thriller set on the US / Mexican border about a young FBI profiler who has to relive her own harrowing abduction to get inside the mind of a child serial killer placed 2nd at the 2015 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition and was a Top 10 Finalist at the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition 2019. His feature, PROBABLE CAUSE was a top 6 finalist at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2010 and a quarterfinalist at the 2013 Nicholl Fellowships.   Shane is currently developing his interactive comedic series, BRENTWOOD, which he describes as ENTOURAGE meets THE HANGOVER, a crazy window into the lives and loves, fortunes and misfortunes of four friends who share a beautiful Brentwood Mansion.  The concept is to allow online end-users to become active participants in the show as it unfolds and to celebrate the commercial by having the audience make their own adverts.      His feature screenplay, BREAKTHROUGH, a supernatural thriller about a new York City Homicide Detective who is shocked to discover the prime suspect in her murder investigation is her dead sister’s guardian angel, was one of the seven winning scripts selected by the London Screenwriter’s Festival as part of their Girls on Film Initiative 2012 and Shane has recently published it as a novel on Inkitt.com.   Close Call won the 2012 United Film Festival Best Short Screenplay, (Comedy).