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 and a 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship for her feature screenplay Killing Jar. Etzu is also the recipient of the 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine, a Columbia University Audience Award winner, now on the festival circuit. Etzu is currently in the Season 5 cohort of Rising Voices, produced by Indeed, Hillman Grad Productions, and 271 Films. She is represented by Gramercy Park Entertainment.

Outside of film Etzu also works in video art and projection design for theater, and previously worked as a software engineer. She is an avid fan of horror video games, cats, mahjong, and women's 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".