Keto Shimizu

Keto Shimizu
Keto Shimizu in November 2015
Born	December 23, 1984 Princeton, New Jersey
Occupation	Television and comic book writer
Years active	2006 - present
Spouse(s)	Christopher "Bradley" Lastrapes
Children	1

Keto Shimizu (born December 23, 1984) is an American television writer, producer, and comic book writer.

She is well known for her work on the North American adaptation of Being Human and for her substantial contributions to Greg Berlanti's and The CW's Arrowverse.

The daughter of an Asian Art Historian father and one of the founders of the first Waldorf school in Princeton, New Jersey mother, Shimizu accredits her love for storytelling to Waldorf teachings. She graduated from Twinfield High School in Plainfield, VT, and Emerson College in Boston. Shimizu and her husband, Christopher Lastrapes, have one son together.

She is an emphatic Batman fanatic, and attributes comic book and television writer Paul Dini as being a notable favorite interpreter. She also counts John Ostrander, Alan Moore, Kurt Buslek, Frank Miller and Chris Claremont as being influential to her writing.

Her first foray into film was with the western short Razor Man, which she wrote and directed, in 2006. The film depicts a lone gunslinger's quest for vengeance in rural 1891 Colorado. In 2007, she directed and wrote a second short film entitled Threads.