Shea E. Butler is a multi award-winning filmmaker for her short films, “The Trial of Ben Barry,” “The Waystation,” "Finding Home" and for the 2017 seven-episode web series, “Trouble Creek.”  She also directed a segment of the independent feature film “Brad’s Untitled Restaurant Project” which has been released on Vimeo VOD, and three monologues of the award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues," for charity in Los Angeles.   Shea's project, the seven-episode web series “Trouble Creek,” stars Jason Gedrick, Debrah Farentino and Dean Cameron.  It can be seen at www.youtube.com/troublecreek.  She Executive Produced all seven episodes with the show’s creator, Stacey K. Black, and directed three of the episodes.    In 2016, she was accepted into Ryan Murphy’s Half Foundation Directing Fellowship and completed her Fellowship on the Fox television series “Scream Queens.”  And in 2014 Shea was accepted into and completed the Warner Bros. Television Director’s Workshop.  Shea recently completed her children’s book, “Finding Home: The Adventures of Abo, The Wild African Puppy,” which is the cornerstone to her short film, “Finding Home.”  She has sold a short story, "Giving Up The Ghost," to Mystery Weekly Magazine and is also the co-creator of the comic book “Undercover Cockroach” which is published on Amazon.  She has been a development executive and segment producer for reality TV and a script supervisor for television and film.   Shea has a BA in Literature & an MA in TV & Film, and is a member of the Writers Guild, I.A.T.S.E. 871, Alliance of Women Directors, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences (Director’s Peer Group), Sisters In Crime and Women In Media.   She is a certified scuba diver and avid horsewoman and was on a team that won a U.S. National 5 Goal Polo Championship.  Born in Cairo, Egypt to American parents living abroad, Shea has travelled extensively throughout the world, her most recent trip being a horseback riding safari through the Okavango Delta in Botswana.  Nothing like being charged by two lions to get the creative juices flowing!