Serena Schuler is the writer, director, and series creator of Makeshift Society, whose work spotlights diverse, female-led, and BIPOC 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 Elizabeth Banks's WhoHaha Network.
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. She also is working in sustainability on an Amazon feature film currently in production.