Jac Schaeffer
Jacqueline Schaeffer (born October 26, 1978) is an American filmmaker best known for her 2009 feature film debut "TiMER" and for her work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe creating the Disney+ television miniseries "WandaVision" and co-writing the initial story to the film "Black Widow". Life and career. Schaeffer grew up in Agoura Hills, California and was inspired by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Lisa Cholodenko as a teenager. Schaeffer graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in English in 2000 after completing an 81-page senior thesis, titled "Splinter in the Mind: The Dilemma  of the Political Dystopian Protagonist and the Cyberpunk Hero", under the supervision of Maria DiBattista. She went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the USC School of Cinema. She wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club theatre groupe, where she learned so much about storytelling and acting despite never being a terrific actor on her own, playing versions of herself. She is Jewish on her father's side, and has two children. She wrote, produced and directed her first feature film, an science fiction romantic comedy called "TiMER" starring Emma Caulfield. The film premiered at  the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and saw a limited US release a year later. Schaeffer wrote "The Hustle", a "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" remake starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, which was released in May 2019. Schaeffer is also developing her Blacklisted-script "The Shower" with Hathaway. Schaeffer contributed to the screenplay for the Marvel Studios film "Captain Marvel" with Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The film was released on March 8, 2019. Schaeffer also wrote the Marvel Studios film "Black Widow" starring Scarlett Johansson, until she was replaced with Ned Benson, who was in turn replaced by  Eric Pearson. She was also hired by Marvel to write the first and final episodes and serve as head writer for the Disney+ miniseries "WandaVision", in January 2019. More recently, she signed an overall deal with Disney Television Studios, with one of these series planned to be a "WandaVision" spin-off centered on Agatha Harkness.