Mona Shahab
- Writer
- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
Mona Shahab is an Iranian-American writer and director. Her short films, and screenplays have won awards and been nominated in a number of film festivals and screenwriting competitions, including Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival. Her web series Super Hosts (2019) screened at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), and other indie festivals in Los Angeles. She's adapting her award-winning short screenplay Better Half (2022) to a feature length romantic comedy that she will be directing. Mona studied comedy at UCB, where she received multiple scholarships, and performed sketch and musical improv. She's also an alum of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, where she studied Screenwriting.