Whitney Shumaker

Whitney Nicole Shumaker is a Los Angeles based filmmaker, experienced in various aspects of the film industry. She began her career as an actress, most notably as Andy Hurley’s love interest in the Fall Out Boy music video: The Young Blood Chronicles. After one year of living in Los Angeles, she joined the Screen Actor’s Guild and shortly after was featured on a number of television shows including New Girl, Workaholics, and HBO’s Westworld. She worked as a photo double for Sasha Pieterse on Pretty Little Liars and most pretentiously photo doubled for Jennifer Laurence on the David O’Russel film Joy. In addition to producing, Whitney currently works as 1st Assistant Director. She has crewed a number of AFI Thesis films including: When the Shadow Falls, You’ll Only Have Each Other, One of These Days, Running Shadow, How To Live Your Life Correctly, and Outdooring. Most recently she 1st Assistant Directed the feature film Drastic Measures and the AFI DWW short Ahma In The Bardo.