First generation Iranian-American, Person Who Stutters, and LGBTQ+ writer/producer, Shea Mirzai is a four-time honoree of Franklin Leonard’s annual Black List and a member of the WGA. Mr. Mirzai has written features for Will Smith and Overbrook Productions and Tucker Tooley of Tooley Entertainment. He is also Executive Producer of Nat Geo’s ORIGINS: THE JOURNEY OF HUMANKIND.

After selling action-drama feature spec RUTH to AGC Studios and being hired to reboot the AMERICAN PIE franchise at Universal, Shea has launched Space Coyote Productions, a full service production company in which he is the founder & CEO.

A graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a B.A. in Film & Media Studies and African-American Studies, Shea is also an alumnus of RespectAbility’s 2020 Summer Lab for Entertainment Professionals as a Mid-Career Mentor.

Before writing and producing full time, Shea cut his teeth in the film industry working for mini-major studio Relativity Media first as a Story Analyst and, later, as Head of the Story Department from 2008-2015. Mirzai is repped by Zero Gravity Management, APA Scripted Literary and GGSSC.