Shawn Piller is a principal and executive producer at Piller/Segan, an independent content production company.

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

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. In 1999, Piller partnered with his father,

Michael Piller Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was best known for his contributions to the ''Star Trek'' franchise. Early life and career Piller was born to a Jewish family in Po ...

, to form Piller², an independent production company headquartered in Hollywood, California. After Michael's death in 2005, the company merged with producer

Lloyd Segan Lloyd Segan is an American film and television producer, and a principal in Piller/Segan, an independent content production company. Television production Segan made his foray into television in 2001 with '' The Dead Zone'' based on Stephen ...

'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

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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 WB, Granada Entertainment and

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. In 2001, Segan approached the Pillers to develop a television series from

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's novel '' The Dead Zone''. The series starred

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and ran from 2002 to 2008 on the USA Network. In 2005, ''Wildfire'' debuted on the ABC Family channel, starring ''Deep Space Nine''s

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. 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 ABC Family. In May 2011, Piller directed ''

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'' starring

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and

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. Piller was an executive producer on Syfy's '' Haven'' and directed 13 episodes of the series. He was also an executive producer for the Global series '' Private Eyes''. He directed a total of 10 episodes over all five seasons of the series, including the final episode in 2021.

Personal life

Piller's father, the late writer-producer Michael Piller, was the executive producer of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the co-creator and executive producer of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and ''Star Trek: Voyager'', and the co-creator and executive producer of UPN's ''

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'', as well as ''The Dead Zone'' and ''Wildfire''. Piller and his mother, Sandra Piller, are the principal officers of Piller Records. Piller is a graduate of the

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. Piller was married to actress

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from 2004 to 2007.

References

External links

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The Dead Zone - Shawn Piller Blog

piller/segan
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