Shane O’Dell has been in the entertainment industry in one capacity or another for the last thirty-five years. He was born in Eastern Canada, in Goose Bay, Newfoundland, but raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. He began his career in radio right out of high school, is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California, and performed for ten years before focusing his energies off stage and behind the camera. Shane wrote his first professional play at 28, and shortly after moved to New York to pursue his career in entertainment. In New York, Shane worked both in front and behind the camera in independent film before a health crisis sidelined his career. He currently is working on his second book and other writing projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia.