Jessica Sharzer

Jessica Sharzer (born October 26, 1972) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and editor. She is well known for her work on the Showtime drama series The L Word and the FX horror series American Horror Story. 2Life and career She was born in Iowa City, Iowa to a Jewish family. She grew up in New York City, and studied film at New York University. Sharzer was all set for a career in academia, until she took a summer film course at New York Film Academy. Realizing then that she was "not meant for academia," Sharzer left Berkeley and enrolled in NYU Film School. In 2002, she won the school’s Wasserman Award for her graduate thesis film, The Wormhole. She was a crew member on the film Happiness, then went on to be an assistant director on the short film Billy Twist. She finished out the 1990s as a crew member on several short films. In 2003, Sharzer met Paul Gutrecht at a luncheon for the Los Angeles Film Festiva