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Keto Shimizu (born December 23, 1984) is an American television writer, producer, and comic book writer. She is 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, Nuvia Capsules including being the showrunner of Legends of Tomorrow. Shimizu accredits her love for storytelling to Waldorf teachings, as her mother Patricia was one of the founders of the first Waldorf school in Princeton, New Jersey. Shimizu's father Yoshiaki was Japanese, and a historian of Asian art. She graduated from Twinfield High School in Plainfield, VT, and Emerson College in Boston. Shimizu and her husband, Christopher Lastrapes, have two sons together. Shimizu is an fan of Batman, and attributes comic book and television writer Paul Dini as being a notable favorite interpreter. She also counts John Ostrander, Alan Moore, Kurt Busiek, Frank Miller, and Chris Claremont as influences in 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, Nuvia Capsules she directed and wrote a second short film entitled Threads. She has worked a vast array of positions in her career including post-production assistant (The Spirit, Tron: Legacy), visual effects editorial coordinator (Clash of the Titans), cinematographer (short film The Storm), and camera operator/first assistant to camera (web series Downers Grove). She worked as a staff writer on the short-lived NBC series The Cape. She is openly bisexual. In 2012, she joined the Syfy adaptation of Being Human, as a story editor. She went on to become a writer on the show, scripting three episodes ("Dream Reaper", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Die", and "Of Mice and Wolfman"). In the summer of 2013, Shimizu boarded the DC Comics produced Green Arrow origin series Arrow, as an executive story editor Nuvia capsules and writer.


Her first episode she co-wrote, Nuvia Capsules with executive producer Marc Guggenheim, was "Broken Dolls", which was critically lauded. Other sophomore season episodes she contributed to include "Blast Radius", "Suicide Squad", and "The Man Under the Hood". On July 9, 2014, it was reported that a prequel comic book series would debut in September of that year to bridge the second and Nuvia Capsules third seasons of Arrow, written by Shimizu and Guggenheim, entitled Arrow 2.5. Some of her work emphasizes the characters she established, with Bryan Q. Miller, in the episode "Suicide Squad". With the commencement of the series' third season, Shimizu was promoted to co-producer, along with Ben Sokolowski. She and co-executive producer Jake Coburn co-wrote the season's second installment, "Sara". She co-wrote the sixth episode, "Guilty", with co-executive producer Erik Oleson. She and Coburn co-penned the season's mid-season finale "The Climb", which introduced supervillain Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable). Shimizu scripted her first solo outing with "Suicidal Tendencies", helmed by Jesse Warn.


It saw the reformation of Task Force X, with new member Cupid/Carrie Cutter; and explored the past of Deadshot. Shimizu co-wrote, with Sokolowski, the fourteenth episode, "Fallout", of Arrow's sister-series The Flash. It showcased the DC superhero Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein) and featured the debut of supervillain Gorilla Grodd.