Serena Schuler

Serena Schuler is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. She is the series creator of Makeshift Society. The story centers on Alex, a rising star in tech, who's always dreamed of building a startup, but has always taken the safe route. When Alex discovers a converted warehouse filled with founders chasing their ambitions, she decides to build her own startup and make her own rules. Previously, Serena developed the series Cake Walk, about the crazy events leading up to a wedding, currently streaming on Elizabeth Banks's comedy site WhoHaha. She wrote and directed the music video Too Much Love, which parodied My Fair Lady's "I Could Have Danced All Night" in a story about a Valentine's Day that has gone off the rails, and was a finalist in the Rachel Bloom Comedy Short Challenge. Her first film, The Ten Plagues, won the Audience Award at the Washington Jewish Film Festival and Audience Award Runner-Up at the Women in Comedy Festival. The story follows a young woman en route to her family's Passover Seder who has a wake-up call of biblical proportions in the form of the modern-day Ten Plagues. It is a coming-of-age comedy about going home for the holidays, on a day when everything seems to be falling apart. Serena graduated with honors from Cornell University and received a masters in psychology from Columbia University. She was on the women's rowing team at Cornell, and won the silver medal in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges Sprints.