Director

Dash Shaw

Directing

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

2.9

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1141766

IMDb ID: nm2690651

Known for: Directing

Born: April 6, 1983

Age: 42

Place of birth: Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2009 - 2021

Years active: 13

Average TMDB rating: 6.68

Wikidata: Q108305809

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Biography

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator whose latest graphic novel, Cosplayers arrived September 2016 from Fantagraphics Books. His other recent books include Doctors, New School, BodyWorld and Bottomless Belly Button. His animated works include Wheel of Fortune, the Sigur Ros video and Sundance selection Seraph (co-written with John Cameron Mitchell), and the 2009 IFC web series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD. He wrote and directed the independent animated feature My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (starring the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph and Susan Sarandon) which recently played at film festivals around the world, and had a U.S. theatrical release in April this year. He was a 2010 Sundance Labs fellow, a 2014-2015 Cullman Center fellow, and a 2016 MacDowell Colony fellow.

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