Shea Mirzai

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 Co-Chair of the WGA’s Disabled Writers Committee. Mr. Mirzai has written features for Overbrook, Sony, 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 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 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. Most recently, Shea was hired to staff on WORLD OF MARVELS at WarnerMedia and HBO Max, a half-hour adventure series based on Middle Eastern High Fantasy. Mirzai is repped by Zero Gravity Management and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson.