Background
In 1999, Piller partnered with his father, Michael Piller, to form Piller², an independent production company headquartered in Hollywood, California.
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Shawn Piller
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University of Southern California.
Career
In 1997, Shawn Piller produced his first film, Oakland Underground, and, in the following two years, he produced The Lonely Leave and co-produced Too Pure, which starred Danny Masterson. After Michael"s death in 2005, the company merged with producer Lloyd Segan"s indie company The Segan Company to become The Piller-Segan Company. The latest addition to the company and now third partner was Shepherd and the company became known as Piller/Segan/Shepherd.
In 2000, Piller co-wrote and co-produced Day One, a science fiction pilot for The World Bank Network.
He has also written episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He has been involved with the development of numerous pilot scripts under his deals with The World Bank, Granada Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.
In 2001, Segan approached the Pillers to develop a television series from Stephen King"s novel The Dead Zone. The series starred Anthony Michael Hall and ran from 2002–2008 on the United States of America Network.
In 2005, Wildfire debuted on the American Broadcasting Company Family channel, starring Deep Space Nine"s Nana Visitor.
The fourth and final season of Wildfire premiered in early 2008. Greek debuted in the summer of 2007 and became the longest-running series on American Broadcasting Company Family. In May 2011, Piller directed Sexy Evil Genius which starred Katee Sackhoff, Seth Green, Bill Baldwin, Michelle Trachtenberg and Harold Perrineau.
Piller is currently Executive Producer on Syfy"s Haven and has directed nine episodes of the series.
