American television writer who was on the staff of the first season of The Next Generation and wrote or co-wrote When the Bough Breaks, Skin of Evil, We'll Always Have Paris and The Price.
Hannah Louise Shearer is an American television writer and producer who served as a story editor during the first season of The Next Generation.
In that year she wrote When the Bough Breaks, shared the teleplay credit with Joseph Stefano for Skin of Evil, the episode in which Tasha Yar is killed, and co-wrote We'll Always Have Paris with Deborah Dean Davis.
She continued to sell stories and scripts after leaving the staff. She devised the story of Pen Pals in the second season and wrote The Price in the third, in which Deanna Troi becomes involved with the negotiator Devinoni Ral. For Deep Space Nine she supplied the story of Q-Less, which brought Q and Vash to the station.