LITERARY TALENT
(in alphabetical order)
ADAM LEVY - Staff Writer/Screenwriter- (USA series The 4400, Starz series Crash, SyFy series Alphas, etc.). His half-hour TV series Good Japanese Girls was optioned by Sony and Mike Royce (One Day at a Time) was attached as a Showrunner but it did not get made. Adam's half-hour TV series Time Force was optioned by Night Fox Entertainment. ***Full Bio link.
ANDREW BEUTMUELLER - Screenwriter - TV addict, Michelin-Star Chef, former tech industry PR exec, reporter for the Financial Times and UCLA graduate. His credits include script doctoring for Zoetrope, several spec Pilots, a Novel, two optioned Feature Films and Charlette Goode TV script with S. Epatha Merkerson, Shalita Grant and Charles S. Carroll attached. ***Full Bio link.
ARJAY SMITH - Screenwriter/Actor - Multiple Series Regular and Recurring roles on Perception, The Rookie, The Journey of Allen Strange, The Guest Book, Major Crimes, Malcolm in the Middle, etc. ***Full Bio link.
AYINDE HOWELL - Writer/Actor residing in Los Angeles, CA. He has written multiple scripts that have garnered quite a bit of attention from the industry, especially his new animation feature film A BROOKLYN SQUIRREL which has multiple starnames attached and is currently in development. ***Full Bio link.
CLINTON WRAY MILLER - Screenwriter / Playwright / Musician - Miller is the Winner of Harvard University's Artist Development Fellowship and a Harvard Grad (Philosophy Major). He is currently developing film and TV for the international market and has an extensive experience with the Chinese market (resided in China for over five years). ***Full Bio link.
DAVID F.M. VAUGHN - Story Editor/Screenwriter - David is a Story Editor on a kids’ TV series TAB TIME. His comedy gay-dad pilot DADDY ISSUES has Mark A. Burley (Orange is the New Black, Glow) attached as a director, as well as Britt Baron (Glow) and Rory O’Malley (Hamilton, American Princess) who will be starring in it. David and his husband reside in NYC and have two kids via surrogacy. ***Full Bio link.
DANIEL ROBBINS - Writer/Actor and Groundlings Improv teacher. Tested on SNL.***Full Bio link.
DOUG CAMPBELL - Director/Writer - known for his work in thrillers and dramas. As of 2018, Doug has directed 36 feature films for television, which are still airing on a rotating basis and 20 of which he wrote or co-wrote. The same producers keep hiring him again and again.
Most of his films air on Lifetime and LMN, but he has also had his work air on CBS, HBO, Showtime, PAX TV, MGM/UA, etc. ***Full Bio link.
ETAN MUSKAT - Screenwriter/Actor - based in Toronto, Canada. Etan is an award-winning writer and actor based in Toronto, Canada. His comedy pilot CONSUME is a Screencraft Fellowship Winner, it was optioned in 2024 and is currently in development.
He has written for or been a part of the development of a number of television projects at CBC, Story 9, Corus/Nelvana and Nickelodeon, Meridian Talent, as well at a gaming studio now owned by Electronic Arts. ***Full Bio link.
GEORGE CARLOS - Screenwriter - A Greek American screenwriter. MFA at UCLA's Graduate Screenwriting Program.
He has also made the quarterfinals and beyond in screenwriting competitions including the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, Bluecat Screenwriting Competition, and Final Draft’s Big Break. ***Full Bio link.
GREG FORTIER - Screenwriter - Finalist - Screencraft Comedy Screenplay Competition
Winner - Austin Film Festival “Best Comedy Feature Script”
Semifinalist - WeScreenplay Feature Lab
Top 25 Writers to Watch - Austin Film Festival
Semifinalist - Emerging Screenwriters
Semifinalist - The Nicholl Fellowship
Top 10 - Launch Pad Feature Competition. Greg
co-wrote Zarna Garg's first feature film REARRANGED - theAustin Film Festival winner for "Best Comedy Feature.” His buddy comedy film HOUSE HUNT is being developed by his management. ***Full Bio link.
JACK MESSITT - Screenwriter - An award-winning Screenwriter whose work has been seen across the globe with Hwuai Brothers’ thriller Control, TF1 produced thriller Trust, and Bigfoot Entertainment’s award-winning horror film Midnight Movie - Jack’s directorial debut. ***Full Bio link.
JAS KANDOLA - A British-Punjabi writer and filmmaker from Birmingham, England. His crime TV series NASHAA has Showrunner Christopher Hollier (La Brea, Roswell, New Mexico) and Director Tim Andrew (NCIS: Hawai'i, Roswell, New Mexico) attached and is currently in development. After attaining his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Birmingham, Jas spent many years working as a Data Analytics consultant and is a Financial Crime Analytics expert, using his tech skills to prevent criminals from laundering money from big banks. ***Full Bio link.
JEENA BLOOM - Screenwriter - Jeena is a half-Asian, bi, trans woman who has lived all over the United States. She transitioned late in her life and has since found her screenwriting voice and is now ready to be heard. Jeena also performs as a stand-up comedienne and is a passionate advocate for trans rights and for victims of intimate partner abuse (of which she is also a survivor). ***Full Bio link.
JOE STRAZZULLO - Staff Writer/Screenwriter - A four-time WGA Award-nominated and two-time WGA Award-Winning, Jimmy Kimmel writer who has written for The Oscars, Emmys, the MTV Movie Awards, the NBA Awards, White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the People’s Choice Awards, The Mark Twain Awards, The VES Awards, the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards, Betty White, Tim Meadows and many more. ***Full Bio link.
JONNY KING - A British screenwriter and an ex-Marine of the British Royal Marines who started to started his screenwriting career off by writing jokes and sketches for BBC Radio. His drama feature film LAND'S END and his dark comedy TV series GIFTED, are both optioned by Producer Cerise Hallam (Flack, Under the Silver Lake). ***Full Bio link.
LOUISE ALSTON
- Writer/Director - an Australian-American, female director living and working between Los Angeles and Australia (currently in Los Angeles).
She's directed feature films BACK OF THE NET (Disney/Netflix), THE WILL and RESISTING ROOTS (both Passionflix films, shot in Atlanta and both under budget), My Husband's Seven Wives for Lifetime, Three Dates to Forever and The Wedding in the Hamptons for Reel One Entertainment, PASSIONFLIX HOLIDAY Quickies 2020 (5 short romantic comedy films based on Holiday-themed short stories by best-selling romance authors), beloved UK-Australian series NEIGHBOURS and many more.
MARISSA LESSMAN - Screenwriter - a professor of Screenwriting at DePaul University. As a former staff writer at the renowned Second City in Hollywood, Marissa had the privilege of contributing her extraordinary talent to illustrious shows like "Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!" and the highly anticipated "Intern Diaries," set to captivate audiences on Tubi. ***Full Bio link.
MICHAIL EGGELHOEFER - Screenwriter -
Michail Eggelhoefer is a British screenwriter. He was born in Thailand to an English and German father, and a Malaysian mother. Michail has lived in seven countries, moving 25 times in 29 years, currently based in London.
He has an MA in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, an MFA in Screenwriting from New York Film Academy and an MA in Screenwriting from Met Film School - London.
Accolades: Winner, Austin Film Festival 2024, Semifinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2023, Top 100, Launch Pad Pilot Competition 2024. ***Full Bio link.
MICHAEL JANN & MICHELE JOURDAN - Michael Jann is an Emmy-nominated late-night comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Michele Jourdan, after a career in high-tech, became a personal trainer, a gold-medal winning body-builder, and actually married a dumbbell (Mike). Together, they’ve written four comedy feature screenplays. Michele’s the smart one. Mike’s the pretty one. ***Full Bio link.
NAOMI SHERIDAN - Screenwriter - nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Screenwriting. She won a Critic’s Choice Award and The National Board of Review award for the screenplay “In America.”
NARINEH TAHMASEBIAN -
Writer/Director -
A first-generation, Armenian-American. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Literature, has taken courses at UCLA Extension for Directing and she’s a member of the Alliance of Women Directors. Narineh is a two-time AFF Second Rounder, Top 15% Nicholl, Screencraft Top 10 Finalist, Female Voices Rock Finalist, as well as a Semi-Finalist in WeScreenplay, The Script Lab, Atlanta, and ISA, she has been featured on Coverfly’s RED List multiple times. She speaks Armenian, Spanish, conversational French and Farsi. Her comedy film GIRL'S NIGHT OUT has
Mark A. Burley (Orange is the New Black, Glow) attached as a director. ***Full Bio link.
NINO ALDI - Writer/Director - Nino's first feature film, WHO KILLED COOPER DUNN? was released on Showtime & Paramount+. Nino’s third feature film, BLACK BOUQUET has Britt Robertson and Denis O’Hare attached and is currently in development, while his 4th feature film, MERCURY RETROGRADE, is a Semi-finalist in Page International Screenwriting Awards and is being packaged. Prior to his features, Nino directed over half a dozen festival short films, most notably TRIBES, which qualified for the Academy Awards (Oscar Buzz Perez Hilton Article) and won multiple international short film festivals. ***Full Bio link.
NONY GEFFEN -
Writer/Director - Geffen has completed Columbia University Film and TV Intensive. His feature "Not in Tel Aviv," won the Jury Prize at the prestigious Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and was distributed in France, "Everything is Broken Up and Dances,” was selected for the Turin International Film Festival and nominated for three Israeli Oscars.
PIERCE MINOR - Screenwriter/Actor - Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Pierce has written and directed a few narrative short films, including Double Negative, which stars Nnamdi Asomugha (Sylvie's Love), Anna Diop (Titans), as well as Brotherlee, which stars Simone Missick (All Rise) and several feature screenplays, a few original television pilots, two novels, and three books of poetry.
SEIS STEVES - Screenwriter - A talented new screenwriter and a proud UCLA MFA Screenwriting Graduate with multiple wins and placements at UCLA MFA Screenwriting contests.
A native Texan, Seis is the liberal, queer black sheep of his family. Graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, Seis earned Bachelor’s Degrees in both Advertising and English, gaining an additional certificate in Business Foundations. ***Full Bio link.
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STACIA CRAWFORD - Director/Writer currently residing in the Southeast. She began directing in 2018 and in that time has directed several feature films that premiered on Netflix,
Lifetime, Tubi, UpTV, etc. along with two seasons of a TV series The Secret Life of Amy Bensen in Atlanta and multiple episodes of true-crime television for ID Discovery. ***Full Bio link.
STEPHEN VAGG - Executive Producer/Screenwriter. Executive Producer on a new Netflix miniseries.
Stephen Vagg is an Australian American screenwriter who lives and works in Australia and the United States. He served as the Co-Executive Producer on Rock Island Mysteries, an adventure series for Nickelodeon in Australia (he worked on 40 episodes), a Supervising Producer on the internationally-screened serial drama Neighbours for FremantleMedia supervising the writing department and plotting over one thousand thirty-minute episodes for a period of over three years and a Co-Producer, writer and Story Editor for several years on the internationally-screened serial drama Home and Away.***Full Bio link.
TURHAN CAYLAK - Screenwriter/Actor - Turkish American screenwriter and actor living in Los Angeles.
He's an NBC Fellowship finalist, SAG Awards Nominee and a graduate of the NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied acting and writing for theater, film, and TV.
WILLEM BOSCH - Showrunner/EP/Screenwriter - Showrunner on the Disney+ Original TV series NEMESIS and also an Executive Producer and Creator / Sole Writer of the series ONE OF US, a true crime TV series for CANAL+. In 2022, his script development company was acquired by the French NEWEN STUDIOS. His dark comedies: BOY MEETS GUN, ZINA and FEUTEN have had great success in Europe. ***Full Bio link.