Shannon Flynn (director)

{{short description|American television director|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| alma_mater = Yale School of Drama

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Shannon Flynn is an American television director. She is best known for her directorial work on teen sitcoms for Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, such as Hannah Montana, Sonny with a Chance, Good Luck Charlie, How to Rock, Austin & Ally, Jessie, The Haunted Hathaways, Liv and Maddie, The Thundermans, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, Bella and the Bulldogs, Best Friends Whenever, Bunk'd, Raven's Home, Coop and Cami Ask the World, and Instant Mom.[https://tv.yahoo.com/shannon-flynn/contributor/2246473 Shannon Flynn], Yahoo! TV {{dead link|date=May 2013}}{{cite web|title=Shannon Flynn (I)|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1659763/|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=27 October 2013}}{{cite web|title=About - Shannon Flynn|url=http://shannonflynn.net/about/|publisher=shannonflynn.net|accessdate=27 October 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205424/http://shannonflynn.net/about/|archivedate=29 October 2013}}{{cite web|title=Shannon Flynn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/1474582/Shannon-Flynn/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411165845/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/1474582/Shannon-Flynn/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2015|accessdate=27 October 2013}} She has recently shifted to directing episodes of television shows aimed at preschoolers, such as Sesame Street and Yo Gabba GabbaLand!.

She is an alumna of the Yale School of Drama, where her dissertation involved a film based on dysphagic mice.[http://shannonflynn.net/Bio.html Biography at official website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162139/http://shannonflynn.net/Bio.html |date=April 25, 2012 }}