SHON KEANE is a non-binary New Yorker who writes about people learning to love and laugh while living with catastrophe - both real and imagined.

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Their films have screened at festivals worldwide, including Telluride where their teen misfit dramedy THE PROM QUEEN was selected for the “Filmmakers of Tomorrow” section. A graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts, Shon has written a variety of award-winning screenplays including PANSY, a queer coming-of-age forbidden love story, which won the IFP Emerging Narrative Screenplay Award and the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition. 

 

Shon is currently completing the feature documentary FINDING BERNIE about their search for their gender

nonconforming childhood role model Bernie, who cleaned houses in the suburbs of Boston in the 1970s.  Shon is also in development on the dramatic biopic SHE’S ALL RIGHT, which they co-wrote with Melanie Oram, based on the true life story of Reverend Debra Hopkins, a Black Baptist minister and trans woman who, after a wrongful arrest, fought the corruption in the Alabama State Police department to reclaim her life and her mental health.

 

Shon is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the City University of New York (BMCC) and a yoga and mindfulness instructor who in their spare time can be found in Central Park staring at trees or spinning like a whirling dervish.