Linda Shayne

Linda Shayne is an award-winning writer and director who graduated from UC Berkeley, worked in mental hospitals and wrote articles about San Quentin State Prison ex-offenders, before she began working in film and television. Shayne created a scripted TV series for Quincy Jones QDE, two animated TV series for Warner Bros. and has written movies for Showtime, Disney, Imagine and directed for Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., MPCA and Paramount. In 2022, Shayne created a dramedy tv series to film in Thailand and she wrote & directed a documentary about a Thai trans-woman billionaire. Shayne's wrote and directed a suspense, thriller, "Mirror Image", which won her a directing award at the Freedom Festival International 2019. The film is now a Film Festival Finalist at the Lisbon Film Rendezvous and the Big Apple Film Festival and was a winner at the Florence Film Festival. Shayne has developed dramatic movies for Muse Entertainment of Montreal and X-Filme of Germany and a romantic comedy for Patriot Entertainment of Los Angeles. Shayne wrote and directed a feature film starring Ned Beatty, Neil Patrick Harris, Shelley Winters, Little Richard and Thora Birch. Shayne directed the family film, "Undercover Kid", with Melora Hardin, released on Warner Bros. and aired on HBO Family. She directed "Little Ghost" in Romania for Paramount and "Flyin' Ryan" was shot in northern California. Shayne's first feature film, "Purple People Eater", garnered actress Thora Birch a Youth in Film Award. Shayne is developing an edgy comedy/drama TV pilot set in a federal prison, a romantic comedy feature and an espionage thriller. Shayne recently wrote a children's book that Emmy Award winning animator, Art Leonardi, illustrated. Shayne also wrote the English translation of Dord Krstic's non-fiction book: "Mileva and Albert Einstein: Their Love and Scientific Collaboration", sold at the Einstein Museum House in Switzerland. Shayne is developing an epic drama to shoot in Europe next year. Shayne served as a Judge for the Content Asia Awards in 2021 and 2022.