Shan Serafin

Shan Serafin is an American director, screenwriter and novelist, known for intense supernatural thrillers, action stories and crime stories, and known for dramatic productions on stage. His films and novels often tackle notions of perspective, reality, and self-worth, and frequently depict strong female characters in violent predicaments. As a novelist, Serafin has continually collaborated with best-seller James Patterson, with whom he's co-authored The Women's War (2016), an action thriller about three female special ops; Come And Get Us (2017), a thriller about a young mother stranded in the desert; and Revenge (2017), a thriller about a hit man avenging his wife. His first solo novel, Seventeen (2004), is the story of a seventeen-year old adolescent who gives herself seven days to live. His second solo-effort is Conquest (2017), a fiction narrative of the toils of modern dating. Serafin grew up in California as the son of two school teachers. After graduating UCLA, where he studied stage performance and filmmaking, he joined the Aresis Ensemble in Santa Monica, where he engaged in productions of French and other European works. At this time, he also began teaching high-school math in South Central Los Angeles and helped form a teenage theater troupe, which would be his training ground for writing and directing and would involve notable young talents such as Martin Starr. Serafin's directorial work in theater burgeoned with a stage play he also co-wrote entitled The Esse…