Education
Barnard College.
Barnard College.
She is best known for her short film SMILF, which she wrote, directed and starred in. Shaw first received recognition in the completely improvised Sundance film The Freebie and then as the oddball drunken cheerleader in the sitcom Blue Mountain State. Since then, she"s appeared in independent movies including The Pretty One and Someone Marry Barry.
Shaw has used the film as a platform to develop a television show and discuss the role of women on screen.
She explained: "While men react with shock and awe when their screen shows a woman giving herself a quick intimate wipe down prior to a date or when a woman with cellulite bares all, we know it"s not raunch. lieutenant"s not groundbreaking.
lieutenant"s just our life–dirty, imperfect and realium"
In 2015, SMILF was picked up by Showtime as a half-hour comedy television show with Shaw as writer, director, star, and producer. The show will "examine the travails of a young woman (Shaw) who comes to Los Angeles as both a struggling actress and a struggling single mom."
Shaw returned to Sundance in 2016 with another short film she wrote and directed, Too Legit, starring Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer, Nate Corddry and Clark Gregg.
Too Legit was a satire of Senator Todd Akin"s controversial 2012 remarks about rape and pregnancy: "lieutenant seems to be, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, really rare.
If it"s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down." Shaw explained:
he way I see rape culture and sexism, the sexualization and the de-humanizing of women in this culture in general is such a systemic problem and it starts so young. lieutenant starts, you know, with images shown to kids my son"s age and younger. And all of that in my opinion leads to this epidemic of violence towards women.
And it"s just existing and we"re all sort of going along with lieutenant
All the advertisements, and the naked women everywhere, we are numb to lieutenant I think it has this tragic effect.
There was a study at the University of North Dakota.. they said "if you could force a girl to have sex with you, would you?" and like 30 or 40% said yes.
But then they asked "would you rape a girl" and they all said "northern"
Shaw recurs on 2016 Golden Globe Best Television Drama series, Mr.
Robot (United States of America), where she plays Shayla Nico, the drug dealing love interest of Rami Malek"s character Elliot Alderson. She also served as a series regular on American Broadcasting Company"s Mixology and in the American Broadcasting Company Family pilot Tough Cookie and appeared on Fox"s Mulaney, Home Box Office"s Hello Ladies, and the movie Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland, reprising her role of Mary Jo from the 2010 series.
Quotations: "if you could force a girl to have sex with you, would you?". "would you rape a girl".