Skyler Millicano is a Los Angeles-born writer and stunt performer who came to storytelling early and somewhat sideways. In fifth grade, his best friend had an Xbox. Millicano became obsessed the video game “Fable”. So much so he wrote a feature-length prequel script for one of the characters. He had learned somewhere that scripts were supposed to be ninety pages, so he made it ninety pages. Some of the action lines were definitely stretched to get it there but the important part was that once he started, he didn’t really know how to stop.

For a long time, writing felt like a private language he was trying to decode - something with rules and structure that weren’t immediately obvious, but clearly mattered. During that time, writing was something he chased while doing other work to make it possible. He gravitated toward stunts largely because it paid the bills, even if it meant trading time at the page for time getting hit by cars or falling down stairs. The balance wasn’t always graceful, but the proximity to sets, crews, and storytelling in motion quietly fed the work anyway.

After more than a decade working as a stunt performer, Millicano developed an allergy to the idea of “writing what you know,” having seen it reduced to surface expectations. That changed during the early months of the COVID lockdown, as he was preparing to become a father. He realized the thing he understood best wasn’t action, but fear. Specifically, the fear of failing the people you love. That realization became the foundation for The Double. Millicano reached out longtime friend Monette Moio - and off it went. A series about an volatile and estranged stunt father and daughter forced to work together with their lives in each other’s hands.

Alongside his writing, he continues to work as a stunt performer, with credits including One Battle After Another, Get Out, the Taken franchise, and more than one hundred episodes doubling Oliver Stark on 9-1-1. At heart, he remains a movie geek who reads scripts for fun and thinks too much about structure. Way too much. He’s positive he’ll crack that code some day.

He credits his mentors, Shauna Duggins, Mark Vanselow, Lauren Shaw, Brian Machleit, and Kyle Woods for teaching him the discipline and work ethic of the stunt community while shaping how he approaches writing - less as inspiration, but hardened repetition and precision. He credits his Mom and Dad for teaching him what selfless sacrifice and decency looks like. And he credits his wife Melissa for keeping him alive, everyday.

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Monette Moio (Co-creator of The Double) is a Los Angeles-born and raised actor, writer and stunt performer who has intentionally spent most of her life in many corners of the film and television industry to better understand how stories are built.

She began training in acting and stunts at a very young age, later working in story development at Energy Entertainment, where she learned how scripts are evaluated and shaped. Her curiosity eventually pulled her toward the visual and physical realities of filmmaking, spending time studying camera and lighting through hands-on testing with Shane Hurlbut’s then-called Inner Circle.

Now working primarily as an actor and stunt performer, being on set in so many capacities has grounded her writing in practicality, collaboration, and a strong sense of visual storytelling.

As an actor, Monette was a series regular on The Real Bros of Simi Valley and a recurring guest star on Amazon’s Outer Range. As a stunt performer, recent credits include Euphoria, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and High Potential. Most recently, she wrote, produced, and starred in the short film Echoes, which explores interior worlds and the consequences of being forced to face them.

At the end of the day, she’s interested in honest, character-driven stories, and is grateful to be learning, building, and telling them from the inside out.