William Zide

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After enjoying all the many possibilities presented by the forced hiatus that the industry experienced as a necessary result of the WGA/SAG strikes that followed my two years working production on network and streaming TV shows as an HSM running a department charged with production continuity, I have been focusing on finishing three writing projects to go out with in the new year. One is a blac...

Wyatt Wakeman

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I graduated from USC's Undergraduate Professional Writers Program and while there, I won the Edward W. Moses Prize for Excellence in Fiction Writing, the program s highest honor. My screenplay BORDERLAND won the Grand Prize in Final Draft Magazine's Big Break International Screenplay Contest. I am also the only writer in the contest's history to have two scripts land in the Top Ten in the same ...

Emily Wahlund

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Emily grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and received her B.F.A. in acting from Carnegie Mellon University. After moving to Los Angeles, she performed stand-up comedy, completed the Groundlings program, and sharpened her writing skills at UCLA Extension. Emily has a diverse portfolio of comedies, thrillers, and horror. She aims to write character driven pieces with a strong focus on female voic...

Nikolai Von Keller

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Nikolai von Keller is one half of the writing & directing team Ink Run (www.inkrunfilms.com) along with Teal Greyhavens. They specialize in high-concept genre storytelling that focuses on underrepresented characters people and occupations that you don't normally get to see in genre films. Their award-winning work has screened at festivals around the world, including Fantastic Fest, Cinequest, M...

Chandra Thomas

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chandra thomas is a writer-performer, originally from New York. She was most recently Executive Story Editor on the single-cam comedy, TACOMA FD. Previously, chandra staffed on the Emmy-nominated farewell season of the multi-cam hit, MOM, as well as a new adult-animated comedy series for Amazon. She also recently sold an hourlong drama to Paramount TV Studios. chandra was the sole comedy writer...

Alex Rubin

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Alex is a fixer. A former press manager, she can fix your image. A former Apple Genius, she can fix your phone. A former PA for the Radio City Rockettes, she can fix… anything. And while she doesn't recommend fixing people, her work explores broken families as they attempt to piece themselves back together. This is, of course, inspired by her own fascinating family of government agents, body sn...

Staton Rabin

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STATON RABIN is a working screenwriter and a YA novelist (Simon & Schuster) with a global audience. She's hired for her skill in adapting IP, true stories, & biographies into scripts with roles that are catnip to A-list actors. She wrote a feature script based on Alex Rosenberg's WWII novel THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW, and a TV pilot "Instruments of Night" (based on Thomas Cook's mystery novel), for A...

Joseph Mwamba

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Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's currently the Writers' Assistant & Freelance Writer for Season 2 of Netflix's upcoming anime TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL, right after being the Writers' PA for Season 4 of Netflix's psychological thriller YOU and Season 2 of the Apple TV+ mystery-comedy THE AFTERPARTY. Previously an assistant for two TV Lit agent...

Marlowe Mitchell

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Marlowe is an interdisciplinary artist who recently graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he wrote, directed, and composed music for a visual-audio moodboard exploring queerness in the horror genre as his final piece. His work is grounded in researching the vast and intersectional history and culture of the queer and transgender community. In 2022 his feature length tran...

Linda MacPherson Davidson

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Linda's stories reflect her Boston roots and often showcase complex female characters in the messy throes of change. Raised among New England neighbors who resorted to murder and the actual assassination of her beloved black Lab, Luther, Linda admits turning to late-night window peeping to answer the burning question: Who the hell are these people? Linda now looks for answers in her screenplays...

Adelita Lopez

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Adelita (aka Lita) Lopez grew up on the dusty community theater stages of Odessa, Texas, received a Bachelor s degree in Acting & Writing from the University of Evansville, IN and spent her twenties on the storefront theater stages of Chicago. Shifting to film/tv, she has been a working actor in Los Angeles since 2006 and a proud SAG-AFTRA member since 2015. In 2019 she launched Luna Loba Creat...

Amanda Lopez

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I am passionate collector, and sharer of stories. As a professional listener, I've heard more than my share of true stories about defying potentially insurmountable odds, and clinging on to the sometimes foolish feeling of hope. I am most often a keeper of the light for others, at times, I hold it for them until they are able to grasp it again, move forward, and shine on. Whether my lived exper...

Jeremy Leder

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Jeremy Leder is a writer from New York who began performing stand-up comedy at 16, before realizing it is much less painful trying to make people laugh when you aren t standing right in front of them.That led him to study screenwriting at Emerson College, where he honed his craft, blending humor and pathos in stories that tend to make you laugh and then, not long after, cry.Jeremy currently wor...

Hope Lasater

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Hope Lasater writes about womanhood, female friendships, and bonkers bad parties. A Gen-Zer who grew up watching every era s comedy masterpieces at the click of a button instead of doing her homework, Lasater brings the best elements of yore into bold, contemporary comedies. She also quotes Frasier too much. After reading Lasater s award-winning feature script ADULT CONTENT, the ISA Development...

Rachael Kelechi Caulker

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Daughter of West African parents, USC Marshall School of Business, Cinematic Arts minor grad, and self-proclaimed TV addict, Rachael has worked at companies including WME and Fabel Entertainment. She recently received her TV Writing Certificate from UCLA Extension. Her psychological horror pilot, Check Out Time was ISA s 2021 Horror/Thriller Grand Prize Winner, and was ranked in the top 5th per...

Rae Jones

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Rae Jones is a 26-year-old writer based in Atlanta, Georgia focusing on intimate scripts with 2 to 3 characters in multi-genres as well as formats. She received her bachelor of arts in film and media with a minor in art history from Georgia State University in 2021. Growing up in rural north Georgia, one of her first achievements was an essay on Hamlet which gained her admission as well as an a...

Kate Holland

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Kate Holland (she/her) trained in London at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. As a writer, Kate is primarily collaborative, centering queer stories and women's writing. She created the story and characters for the play No Provenance with award-winning playwright Caroline Prugh. Kate directed and co-wrote the short film No Monsters in Berlin which won the Diversity at Cannes Grand Jury...

Joey Day Hargrove

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Joey Day Hargrove is a comedy writer who fell into working with teenagers for her career and is often disturbed by how lost they all seem, especially the girls. So she tends to write quirky stories about lonely (often young) women finding belonging in the least likely of places through uplifting, often irreverent, journeys of self-discovery. Growing up in Oklahoma, Joey never quite fit in. So a...

Ariane Hahusseau

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A French cosmopolitan expat, Ariane studied literature in Paris and London, before graduating from the American Film Institute Conservatory with an MFA in screenwriting. Passionate about art and history, Ariane s screenplays focus on female empowerment with passionate protagonists who fight society's injustices to find their voice. If period dramas are her favourite genre, Ariane s dark sense o...

Teal Greyhavens

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Teal Greyhavens is one half of the filmmaking team Ink Run (www.inkrunfilms.com) along his writing & directing partner Nikolai von Keller. They specialize in high-concept genre storytelling that focuses on underrepresented characters people and occupations you don't normally get to see in genre films. Their award-winning work has screened at festivals around the world, including Fantastic Fest,...

Gallo And Harris

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Caitlin Gallo (right) and Brittany Harris (left) met at a theater conservatory - hidden behind Lincoln Center in New York City - many years ago. They couldn t have been more different - Caitlin, NY born and LA bred child of a music executive and Brittany, good ol southern girl - descendant of Mary Todd Lincoln. (Seriously.) But they connected instantly - soulmates born worlds apart, brought tog...

Tray Epps

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From the Concrete Jungle to the suburbs of England, Tray usually finds himself in peculiar situations, some of which have him repeatedly shutting down judgements made based on his appearance which has led him to explore stories with underlying themes of identity and place in the world. He writes character driven comedy dramas that tugs on heartstrings and tickles funny bones. After years of ham...

Mike Doyle

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Mike Doyle is a professional screenwriter currently repped by Jeff Belkin at Zero Gravity. He's in the process of working with Arcana Comics, Exit 44, and getting ready to go into production on a supernatural/horror feature. He's written projects featuring Milla Jovovich, Javicia Leslie (Batwoman), and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost, The 100) He's also written, produced, and directed short-form thrille...

Julie Dare

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At age 13, Julie Dare was knocked out of The National Spelling Bee by a tichorrhine, an extinct woolly mammoth. This established her lifelong missions: to conquer the written word and exact vengeance on tichorrhines. Since then, she's garnered writing credits on the streaming drama series 5th Ward, audio description for hundreds of hours of film and television (including Reservation Dogs, Sundo...

Aloura Charles

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What I'm doing: I'm thrilled to have two pilots selected as grand prize winners for Emerging Screenwriter's Competitions, STAR SISTERS for Genre and RESTORATION for Sci-Fi & Fantasty! This one is currently in development with Roddeberry Entertainment. My animation feature, THE GOLDEN SNAIL based on the successful picture book by Graeme Base, is being packaged by APA, and I'm currently finishing...

Dan Bronzite

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Dan is a produced writer/director, best known for his supernatural horror LONG TIME DEAD for Working Title Films/Universal and for his "Brit List" horror DO OR DIE for Michael Kuhn s Qwerty Films. He studied graphic design and photography before pursuing his passion for cinema and a full time career in film. He has directed three multi-award-winning shorts and has written several features, incl...

Emma Barrow

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Emma Barrow is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She comes from a family of artists and has a BFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. Her writing often centers complex intergenerational family dynamics and her goal is to tell compelling stories centering Native people. She was a 2022 ISA Fast Track Fellow, made it to the second round consideration for the Warner Brothers TV Writers...

Tim Auld

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A writer/director whose veteran action film, Minotaur, has won 4 competitions and placed as a top 10 finalist in a dozen more. Tim's short films have been selected for various festivals, most notably Palm Springs International. In 2022 he directed a pilot for a 6-part television series set in London. Tim is determined to make meaningful action films that his wife and daughter would watch over a...