SHAMAR S. WHITE

Shamar S. White is a Los Angeles based Screenwriter, Television Writer, and Playwright, hailing from Chicago, Illinois.  In 2016, Shamar earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received the 2016 Outstanding Writing for Half- Hour Television award.  Her plays Battles and The Virgin were both winners in the NYU/Tisch Dramatic Writing Ten-Minute Script Festival. You can see her first production of her play Detained premiering in 2017 's The Fire This Time Festival in New York. Shamar is a decorated Combat Veteran and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild.