Age: 28

Occupation: Writer, Director

Note: This is a primary character.

    When she was young, living in Orlando, Serena's parents separated, with her father moving to Texas and her mother taking her and her brother to the Jacksonville area. Thankfully for everyone involved, Serena's parents separated on amicable terms and maintained a healthy relationship with each other and their two children.

    It was Serena's father who got her interested in film. During one of her visits with him, he showed her his all-time favorite movies, including Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Godfather, and The Breakfast Club. Serena was transfixed by the technique and storytelling exhibited by them and grew to love film and television, even making her own home movies with her brother using their mother's old video camera.

    In high school, she took TV Production classes every year, meeting and working with both James Greene and Jennifer Davis, who would not only end up becoming one of Serena's closest friends but also her most frequent collaborator on class productions. However, half way through their senior year, Jenny moved to California to attend Carlsbad High School in the hopes of getting a leg up to attend the University of Southern California for film. Serena instead attended the University of Central Florida, and was accepted into their Film BFA program after two years.

    While she helped out her old classmate James with what he needed to do to get into the BFA program, Serena was more focused on holding herself together, as the stress of the film program was starting to weigh her down a bit. There were many days that she wanted to just shut herself off from everyone and everything, and she confided in James that she is a bit more introverted than she lets on.

    She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film at the age of 23, and soon was off to Los Angeles, having already met some contacts during her time in school and turned some heads at several short film festivals. In four years, she had directed two films that ended up being surprise hits at the box office and garnering critical acclaim.

    Now with the support of the studio system and Jenny as her producer, Serena is finally bringing one of her passion projects (Birds of a Feather) to life while maintaining total creative control, but will the stress of a tight schedule and little sleep break her?

    Serena is a very approachable person, and quite a smiler. It's rare that she will admit that she is feeling overwhelmed or down in the dumps, and only ever does so in confidence. She feigns extroversion very well, but tends to examine others in a group more than talk amongst them. When she puts her mind to something, she puts her all into it and doesn't give up easily.