Etzu Shaw (she, her) is a Taiwanese-American screenwriter and director based in Brooklyn, whose narrative interests tend to dwell within the intersection of all things female, queer, Asian-American, and more often than not, comedic.

She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award for her thesis feature script Killing Jar, also a 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship awardee. Etzu is also the recipient of the 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine, currently on the festival circuit. In addition to Etzu's own projects, she has worked in development at multiple production companies, including ViacomCBS, Cinetic Media and Gamechanger Films, and has also served as a script reader for the former Sundance Asian-American Fellowship. She is currently represented as a writer through Gramercy Park Entertainment.

Outside of film Etzu also works in video art and projection design for theater, and previously worked as a software engineer for several years. She is also an avid fan of horror video games, cats, mahjong, and team sports. These facts are unlikely to be relevant to why you are viewing her website, but she feels compelled to include them in a section labeled "About Me".