LITERARY TALENT
(in alphabetical order)
ADAM LEVY - Writer (USA series The 4400, Starz series Crash, SyFy series Alphas, etc.) ***Full Bio link.
ALVERAZ RICARDEZ - Actor/Writer, studied film and literature at UCLA, and has appeared in numerous network series (Snowfall, Bosch, Schooled…). Currently developing a sci-fi pilot with the producers of Umbrella Academy ***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.
COLLEEN DAVIE JANES - Director - Colleen is a multi-award winning feature film & TV director. Colleen directed: a romance comedy feature film Seduction & Snacks, an independent comedy pilot How Am I Doing and a thriller feature film that will air on Lifetime, for Johnson Production Group. ***Full Bio link.
DAVID F.M. VAUGHN - Screenwriter - David is a Story Editor on a kids’ TV series “Tab Time.” He 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.
DEJAN ZECEVIC - Serbian film/TV director & screenwriter - directed over 100 TV episodes and 10 feature films. Dejan’s newest feature film Offenders has been selected by his homecountry of Serbia as its official contender for the 2019 Oscars in the foreign-language category. ***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.
ERIC TOMS - Screenwriter - Eric’s writing has won recognition with The Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Austin Screenwriting Festival. ***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 Nickleodeon, 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 ***Full Bio link.
IAN NILES - Director/Actor/Creator of the new comedy TV show "Millenniums" on Amazon Prime. Watch the entire First Season
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 - Screenwriter - a British-Punjabi writer and filmmaker from Birmingham, England. He specializes in Drama and Comedy screenplays, such as the TV Crime Drama “NASHAA” (PAGE Awards Bronze Prize Winner), and the eerie TV Comedy “DARK MOORS”. In all of Jas’s stories, South Asian characters are front and center; ever-passionate in having his community represented up on our screens. ***Full Bio link.
JAY M. GORDON -Screenwriter - Received a Bachelor's in UCLA's Film/TV program & Master's degree in UCLA's Film MFA Screenwriting program. His writing was awarded the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting prize from UCLA's Film and Television Program. ***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 (which she is also a survivor). ***Full Bio link.
JOE STRAZZULLO - 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. ***Full Bio link.
JOSH HOPE - Writer/Director - His latest feature film ‘Alex/October’ starring Ethan Cutkosky was released in 2022 in select US theaters by Deskpop Entertainment, and is currently available on Apple TV & Prime Video. ***Full Bio link.
JULIET TONDOWSKI - Screenwriter/Actor - Studied Theater and Dance at Bennington College. Juliet can be seen on such shows as Life in Pieces, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Feud, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I’m Dying Up Here, Hand of God and many more. ***Full Bio link.
KATE MINES - Writer/Producer/Actor
on the Amazon show "Dropping The Soap" starring Jane Lynch, Missi Pyle and Patrick Fabian. Jane Lynch Won an Emmy for this short form comedy series. ***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.
MATTHEW CURRIE HOLMES - Writer/Director - is a multi-award-winning, Canadian-American screenwriter, director, and actor; having appeared in over 40 films and television series, most notably FIREWALL (Harrison Ford), THE FOG (Maggie Grace) and WRONG TURN 2 (Henry Rollins). ***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, born and raised in Glendale, California. 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’s an Indie Fest Winner and has been featured on Coverfly’s RED List multiple times. Narineh aims to have strong, nuanced, fallible women as subjects for her content. She speaks Armenian, Spanish, conversational French and Farsi. ***Full Bio link.
NINO ALDI - Writer/Director - Nino's first feature film, WHO KILLED COOPER DUNN? was released on Showtime & Paramount+. His second feature, LONESOME SOLDIER, was released in 113 theaters - with Regal Cinemas being the main chain. 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.
PETER HARMON - Screenwriter - Pete’s faith-based drama feature PRODIGAL HUSBAND was released in 2020 and he currently has a horror/thriller feature, RAW FOOTAGE, in production and slated for release in this year. ***Full Bio link.
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.
RAINY KERWIN - Canadian and American Director/Writer - directed and/or wrote multiple feature films: The Wedding Invitation, A Neighbor’s Vendetta, Marrow, etc. Speaks French. ***Full Bio link.
RENE ASHTON -Writer/Creator/Actor - Optioned three feature films and written, as well as produced, three award-winning spec television pilots/short films. ***Full Bio link.
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 multiple episodes of true-crime television for ID Discovery. ***Full Bio link.
STEPHEN VAGG - Screenwriter - Co-Executive Producer on Rock Island Mysteries, a 20-episode adventure series for Nickelodeon in Australia.
For over three years, Stephen was a Supervising Producer on the internationally-screened serial drama Neighbours for FremantleMedia, supervising the writing department and plotting over one thousand thirty-minute episodes. Prior to that, he was a Co-Producer, writer and Story Editor for several years on the internationally-screened serial drama Home and Away. .***Full Bio link.
TED LANGE - Writer/Director - A
graduate of London’s Royal Academy. His four-camera expertise includes sixty episodes for
Entertainment Studios’, The First Family and Mr. Box Office, and twelve episodes of Are We
There Yet?. ***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.