Selected work / Film & television
Complicated people. Unexpected turns. Stories that reveal who we are.
2022 ScreenCraft Fellow
01 / Selected directing
Short films & series.
02 / The filmmaker
Raised in Farmington, New Mexico, Shawn-Caulin Young is a director, writer, producer, actor and horseman. His work explores belonging, loyalty and people under pressure.
His love of story began at home. His mother was fascinated by Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell and horror movies. Tapes sent by his aunt became a childhood collection—a way to encounter lives and worlds beyond his own.
His father’s world of rodeo and horse racing helped shape him as a storyteller and gave him a love of Westerns. Shane, Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, Lonesome Dove and 1883 speak to what draws him to the genre: grit, the pursuit of justice, and the personal cost of revenge.
The first in his immediate family to graduate college, he earned his BFA in Acting, magna cum laude, from The Hartt School. He trained in England with members of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Shawn is an Adjunct Professor at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, where he teaches Advanced Acting for the Camera. His work with actors continues through Book Your Role.
“I’m drawn to the moment someone can no longer keep up the version of themselves they want the world to see. That moment can be frightening, funny, tender, or all three.”
Shawn-Caulin Young
03 / The actor’s perspective
Acting reel & credits
An actor’s instinct for the unspoken informs every story.
Also on screen / Acting
Watch official trailer on VimeoFeature film · Shawn-Caulin Young as Crystal
Written and directed by Angela Shelton
A prison boxer’s extraordinary choice becomes a story of friendship, love and loyalty.
04 / The writing
Three feature screenplays in development.
Thrillers, westerns, sci-fi, family dramas, supernatural stories and dark comedy, grounded in human behavior and a strong sense of place.
Feature screenplayIn development
A film editor’s lunch at a mountain cabin becomes a test of loyalty when a friend’s attempt to rescue his mother turns into a new form of captivity.
Written by Shawn-Caulin Young
Feature screenplayIn development
A woman fleeing an abusive partner finds refuge at a New Mexico safe house, then risks her escape to help a survivor she once turned away.
Written by Shawn-Caulin Young
Feature screenplayIn development
Trapped in a shuttered mall before Black Friday, a guilt-ridden bystander and his co-workers must survive a killer’s livestream and stop the marketplace selling their deaths.
Written by Shawn-Caulin Young & Tyler Sacks
Based on the story concept by Tyler Sacks
Scripts, decks and supporting materials are password-protected.
Directing, writing & producing
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