Lane Shefter Bishop is a renowned producer/director who has garnered an impressive array of accolades for her work, including an EMMY, six Telly Awards, a Videographer Award, three Communicator Awards, a Sherril C. Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a Davey Award, a New York Festivals Award, and the DGA Fellowship Award for Episodic Television.
As the CEO of Vast Entertainment, she is the go-to book-to-screen company, with numerous projects in various stages of development, including feature films, TV series, and limited series, all based on books. Some of her notable credits include producing the feature films "The Duff" for CBS Films & Lionsgate and "Assassination Games" for MPCA, as well as TV series such as "THE BRAIN TRUST" for NBC, "Confessions of a Sociopath" for Universal Cable Productions, and "The Forgetting" for Netflix.
Additionally, she has produced the limited series "The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein" for Sony Pictures Television, and has written, produced, and directed numerous TV movies for Lifetime, including "His Secret Marriage," "He Knows Your Every Move," "Wicked Moms Club," "Blood Sweat and Lies," and "The Choking Game." Furthermore, she has directed the streaming movie "A Brother's Honor" for Passionflix, based on the popular novel by NY Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson.
Ms. Bishop is also a contributing writer to Boss Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine, and has spoken at the WGA and numerous writers' conferences three times. She is the author of the book "Sell You Story in a Single Sentence, Advice From the Front Lines of Hollywood," published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2016, which debuted at #1 on Amazon in New Releases five times before its official release date. CNN has dubbed her "The Book Whisperer" of Hollywood.
Ms. Bishop holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Fine Arts in Production from USC's School of Cinema/Television. She is a director-member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
