MFA Screenwriting Graduates 2021 Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television a Letter from the Dean

MFA Screenwriting Graduates 2021 Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television A Letter from the Dean

2021 MFA Screenwriting Graduates LMU School of Film and Television

I’m proud to present the 2021 MFA Screenwriting Directory featuring the work of our talented Writing for the Screen and Writing and Producing for Television graduates.

In the LMU School of Film and Television students are encouraged to bring to life those stories that only they can tell; stories of lived and cultural experience; stories that speak diversity, adversity, and triumph; stories that spark imagination and repressed memories; and stories that touch the heart, stir the mind, and activate social change. Enclosed you’ll find projects that explore a broad range of genres that are told with a mastery of the craft that seek to expand the stories told in the industry. I am honored to introduce you to the vital voices of our 2021 cohort. The directory includes each graduate’s bio, loglines for their original screenplays and pilots, and contact information. I’m eager for you to be able to work with these incredible writers and producers.

Producing creative work through this markedly challenging time in our collective history is no small task. Resilient and irrepressible, each graduate is poised to launch a thriving career in the industry, offering fresh perspectives on the human struggle. I look forward to seeing their work in the public consciousness for years to come.

Kind Regards,

Bryant Keith Alexander Interim Dean, LMU School of Film and Television Dean, LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts

1 LMU Drive 310 338 5800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 [email protected] sftv.lmu.edu Writing for the Screen

Writing and Producing for Television

sftv.lmu.edu 1 2 Writing for the Screen Graduates 01 Erin Boyle

919 260 1954 [email protected]

4 With her love of travel, history, and Ever Thine (Pilot, Drama, dreams of being Nancy Drew, Erin Adaptation) In the summer of 1799, has found adaptation to be the most Josephine Brunsvik, a free-spirited, rewarding form of storytelling. When aristocratic lady, falls for her poor, watching “based on true story” films or low-born piano tutor, Ludwig van shows, she keeps a search browser open Beethoven. When their affair is to research every character and to solve discovered, pressure from Josephine’s history’s greatest unanswered questions. family to marry someone of equal She hopes to further develop stories nobility threatens their romantic and about figures forgotten by history, and professional futures. when she’s not playing video games or escaping rooms for fun, she’s planning Lucid (Feature, Transmedia Sci-Fi/ her next trip abroad so she can reach all Adventure Video Game) Emilia wakes seven continents by 2030. from a twenty-year coma to find herself in an unfamiliar, futuristic lab run by Capa & Taro (Feature, Drama, a mysterious neuroscientist. As she Adaptation) As political tension investigates how she got there, she spreads across 1930s Europe, Endre uncovers a disturbing plot concealed in Friedmann and Gerda Taro create the a vast, spellbinding simulated world. persona of American photojournalist Robert Capa to conceal their Jewish identities. Under the guise of Capa, they put their lives on the front line to expose the humanitarian horrors of the Spanish Civil War.

sftv.lmu.edu 5 02 Theodore Bronson

630 244 7745 [email protected] Instagram: @ted.four

6 With a B.A. in Biology and Japanese, Forgotten Depths (Feature, Sci-fi/ Ted has no trouble dissecting a fruit Mystery/Thriller) Tokyo, 2083. fly or navigating Tokyo. But after When a loner detective is hired by graduation, he realized neither subject an injured amnesiac to recover her was his true passion. Add heartbreak identity, he’s forced to dive into his and social isolation in his homophobic own haunted past. hometown to the mix, and he had the perfect recipe for a quarter-life crisis. Rosefrost (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ Amidst this low point, though, he Horror) When a mentally unstable realized he had to express himself— ex-psychologist finds new work as he had to be a writer. Embracing the a groundskeeper at the isolated lessons of his rocky road as well as his Rosefrost Hotel, she discovers dark visually bold imagination, Ted writes magic that manifests inner demons sci-fi and horror tales that explore and resolves to save the hotel’s identity, loss, and love. unsuspecting guests.

Stonebleeder (Feature, Horror) A Finalist—ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script love-struck coal miner is haunted by Competition 2021 a mysterious man made of smoke who claims he can help him secure his Lifepasser (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ fragile relationship with another miner Sci-Fi) Amidst a galactic civil war, a … if he’s willing to shed some blood. soldier having a crisis of faith absorbs an alien substance that grants him a Winner of LMU's Samuel Z. Arkoff Award godlike power over life and death. for Best Unproduced Screenplay

sftv.lmu.edu 7 03 Kendra Copeland

661 312 5870 [email protected] kgcope.wixsite.com/qandanla Instagram: @kg_copeland1 Twitter: @Kendra94795929

8 Born in an under-resourced small town Nannerl (Pilot, One-Hour Historical in Missouri, the only vegetarian in a Drama/Mini-Series) Mozart’s equally sea of barbecue-obsessed carnivores, brilliant sister, Nannerl, plays her dying Kendra felt isolated. She used films to brother one final melody. By his side, see beyond her circumstances, falling she recounts Mozart’s rise to fame in love with the cinema and developing while societal oppression stifled her a comprehensive knowledge of its dreams of being a composer. history, inciting her dreams of being a screenwriter. But life had different Retrospective (Feature, Drama/ plans. Kendra became a caretaker Thriller) A tennis coach is attacked by for her three nephews—learning to her adoptive son, the #1 ranked tennis cook and change diapers. She traveled player, resulting in his suicide and her from Shanghai to London assisting memory loss. While struggling to regain prominent curators and became a crisis her identity, her son's ghost prompts response professional helping college her to investigate the circumstances students who’ve endured assault. behind the attack, forcing her to face However, her love of screenwriting dark deeds she committed as a mother. never ceased. Now, to promote greater compassion, Kendra writes sincere Bodies Without Blemish (Feature, and character-centric stories about Drama) A struggling actress and single women of color who overcome trauma mother is cast by a renowned director despite the odds. seeking women who have bodies without blemish, triggering a harrowing The Griever (Pilot, Half-Hour Dark on-set odyssey that reaches a predatory Comedy) A professional griever is boiling point. hired by dying narcissists to perform fake heartfelt eulogies at their funerals. Recipient of the Henry Bromell But after a near-death experience, Scholarship 2020 she’s blackmailed by her dead clients’ reformed spirits to rectify their wrongdoings on Earth.

sftv.lmu.edu 9 04 Isabelle Davis

843 610 7606 [email protected] Instagram: @izzybelledavis Twitter: @izzybelledavis

10 Izzy is from the least exciting Florence Super Bowl. in the world … Florence, South Carolina. Growing up in the traditional world of Joan of Arkansas (Feature, Comedy) A cotillions and debutantes, she had the willful college sophomore in California, delight of wearing a wedding dress at far away from her uppity southern the age of nineteen without a fiancé. hometown, is forced back home for her Because no sports injury has ever debutante ball and has every intention been as traumatic as that experience, of ruining it for everyone. she chose to focus on sports and has yet to give up on her Olympic dreams Queen of Carts (Pilot, Half-Hour … though some suggest she should. Comedy) Kat Fischer’s life is planned When she’s not trying to turn her around her soon-to-be pro-golfer six younger siblings into the next boyfriend, until he breaks up with her Harlem Globetrotters, she’s using their unexpectedly because she isn’t “golf- incapacities (okay, and her own) to drive wife material.” She takes on a job at his her comedic, coming-of-age stories. country club to win him back and prove him wrong. Clean Sweep (Feature, Sports Comedy) Dealing with their mid-life Five Golden Rings (Feature, crises, two best friends—a former Romantic Comedy) Childhood best hockey player stuck in past glories friends, Danny and June, promise to get and a try-hard single dad—create a married at the age of thirty, if they’re curling team of misfits in pursuit of both single. That promise becomes the Olympics. a nearing reality, as June strays from commitment and Danny copes with Madame Ram (Feature, Drama/ four failed engagements. Sports Biopic) After the death of her husband, former showgirl Georgia Rosenbloom is made the first female owner of an NFL team and arguably the most controversial. That year, while Rams fans and the media cope with a woman at the top of a man’s world, she takes them to their first ever

sftv.lmu.edu 11 05 Andrew Hammersmith

330 612 7695 [email protected]

12 Andy was born in the entertainment Deep Cut (Feature, One-act Play, capital of the world, Akron, Ohio. His Comedy) An unsuccessful rock band family introduced him to films from returns to their former high school to the absurdity of the Marx Brothers to play the talent show. Minutes before the spectacle of James Bond. He turned the gig, the selfish members argue his binge watching into a passion for over their future as their bass player storytelling. As he began to write, he unexpectedly croaks. developed an inner comedic voice that allowed him to circumvent his shy, outer Insulin (Feature, Dramedy) Unable to candy shell. Strange ideas escaped his afford insulin, an uninsured diabetic brain, including a totally normal biopic divorcé smuggles drugs to survive. about Guy Fieri and a mockumentary When he’s not hustling for idiotic about Mr. Clean. When he isn’t watching gangsters, he tries to be the world’s old movies, he writes comedy and greatest dad for his daughter. On genre pieces about absurd people doing a dad weekend, he’s forced to take absurd things. her along for a pickup across the Canadian Border. Tom, Dick, and Harry (Feature, Spy Comedy) Presumed dead, a cantankerous retired assassin hides out in a senior living home. When the CIA tracks him down, he enlists his fellow residents to trade in their walkers for weapons to protect the facility from a death squad.

Bellview Blues (Pilot, Half-hour Comedy) Imprisoned in a remote Wyoming town, an inept con man must repay his debt to society by turning the town for profit. Desperate, he passes off the local stream as a holy site with “magical properties.”

sftv.lmu.edu 13 06 Luke Hart-Moynihan

443 254 0942 [email protected]

14 Luke was born in Rome, Italy to a family Out of the Sea (Feature, Myth/Epic of historians. He grew up in Annapolis, Fantasy) A witch’s daughter on the Maryland and attended the College fringes of her small community will of William & Mary, where he studied stop at nothing to gain the love of her Neuroscience, Mathematics, and the sister’s betrothed in the brutal winter real moneymaker: Ultimate Frisbee. of 10th-century Iceland. Based on the Disillusioned by the way science Saga of Eric Brighteyes (1890) by H. degrees seemed to act as a funnel into Rider Haggard. defense contracting careers, Luke decided on the pen as his weapon of Aralkum (Feature, Survival Drama) choice. Luke’s writing is guided by a With no other way to earn money for deep admiration for ancient stories, food, a father and son set out across particularly tales exploring themes of the desert of a former seabed to nature mysticism. He spends his days scavenge resources from an abandoned coaching ultimate and teaching calculus bioweapons facility. in his time away from translating myths into scripts. God’s Dice (Pilot, One-Hour Historical Drama) Physicists of the Liebe Lise (Feature, Historical Drama) early twentieth-century struggle Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Mietner to survive and keep their humanity struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany through two world wars, flight from while her work leads towards an earth- persecution, weaponization of their shattering discovery—nuclear fission, the work, and discoveries that alter the key to the atomic bomb. course of history.

The Táin (Feature, Myth/Epic Fantasy) In mythic iron-age Ireland, an exiled king allies with a proud queen to steal a magic bull and retake his former kingdom, but his semi-divine foster-son stands in their way. Based on stories from the Irish Ulster Cycle.

sftv.lmu.edu 15 07 Jillian Ibarra

661 621 1470 [email protected] Instagram: @jillianbibarra Twitter: @jillianIbarra Facebook: jillian.ibarra.3

16 Born and raised in L.A. to Mexican and Aliento (Feature, Drama) Valentina Guatemalan, Catholic immigrants, leads a social justice movement within SoCal is engrained in Jillian. Since her Latinx community by taking down childhood, she dreamt of working the bigoted cop that unjustly killed in film and even earned degrees her brother. in Theatre and Film Studies, but doubts led her down a different path. Sabor A Mi (Feature, Drama) Set in the She worked with domestic violence ‘90s, an impoverished Latina is saved victims and graduated with a Masters by a conflicted white supremacist after in Educational Counseling. Yet, she colliding in a car accident, they fall in found herself with a degree and job love and face dangerous consequences. she didn’t hold passion for. With a strengthened backbone, she decided Golgotha (Feature, Drama, Thriller) to forge a new path towards her true To pay her sick mother’s medical bills, dream, screenwriting. Embracing her Bianca, a street-smart teenage drug roots, Jillian writes with her California- dealer, works for a vicious drug queen, bred, Latina voice to give the Hispanic but when a Narcotics Officer begins community representation in film tracking her, she must escape the and TV. Jillian is the proud recipient dangerous drug underworld. of the 2021 Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship.

L.A. (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) After Novia, a medical student, living in L.A., with her undocumented father, Jose, a doctor from Mexico now a Paletero man, helps an injured non-citizen, they discover the desperate need for medical help in their largely uninsured community and open an undercover medical center.

2020 LMU SFTV Award: Best Graduate Pilot Finalist

sftv.lmu.edu 17 08 Max Kubisiak

406 241 2740 [email protected] Instagram: @the_obligatory Twitter: @paperbackwrit20 Facebook: maximilian.kubisiak

18 Born in Fargo and raised in Montana, Plastikuni (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ the American West is in Max’s blood, Sci-Fi) “Organics” battle “Artificials” in though he harbors a healthy skepticism a world where plastic has altered all life toward its founding myths. Growing forms. Against Organic laws, a young up in a mixed-race white/indigenous Artificial named Ishmael gives birth to family in a liberal town in a conservative a child. The child is special—a living state, Max is equal parts sensitivity and amalgam of the human and the plastic. cynicism. It’s the contradictions! If you could open his head, you’d find Black Butte, America (Pilot, One-Hour Sabbath’s “Paranoid” playing on loop. Drama/Period Western) An Irish rebel His inner darkness hasn’t stopped him on the run, a Blackfoot saloonkeeper from loving and writing stories about who survived the Marias Massacre, characters facing overwhelming odds, and a Chinese-American doctor especially in Westerns. He will take the meet in the streets and gutters of genre beyond its white male frame, if it’s Butte, Montana—a town they love the last thing he does. and struggle against with their hearts and fists. Bigfoot Nation (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) An outcast Bigfoot who Advanced to the second rounds of studies humans, a Ted Kaczynski Sundance's Episodic Lab competition and conspiracy theorist, and a bored Gen Austin Film Festival's Drama Teleplay Z-er are all unwittingly drawn into competition. a ring of political, corporate, and international intrigue in a small Rocky Mountain town. The trio bumbles through the absurdities of a classic western conspiracy.

sftv.lmu.edu 19 09 Gabriel Lugo

787 403 0546 [email protected]

20 Growing up Puerto Rican gave Gabriel The New Wave (Feature, Musical a unique perspective on what it means Drama) A momentary bliss that shaped to be American and a serious case music forever. From love affairs to of Spanglish that encouraged him to Grammy Awards, see the origins of explore nuanced characters in exotic Bossa Nova through the eyes of the Girl backgrounds. He grew up in a family of Ipanema herself, Astrud Gilberto, an of engineers and doctors. But when insecure housewife in 1950’s Brazil who his island was devastated by Hurricane struggles to step out of her husband’s Maria, he had too much time to think shadow, João Gilberto. and even more stories to tell. He daydreamed about a kid that finds a Untagged (Feature, Romantic magical golden gas can for his generator Comedy) After a messy breakup, which brings him a much-needed Anthony and Dyanne meet on vacation hot shower and accolades for his first and get stuck traveling together after production. Having achieved both, their companions get lost on a party he dove into screenwriting, hoping to tour bus. The ex-lovers must work ignite in others the passion he feels for together using social media to find troubled but talented souls searching them in time for the biggest soccer for a deeper connection. match in Italy.

Blackout (Feature, Tragicomedy) An Brobots Pilot, (Half-Hour Animated anti-social, grieving son avoiding his Comedy) A shiny next-gen robot, its 21st birthday, his overworked mother outdated counterpart, and their harsh stranded on a business trip, and his AI spaceship, struggle with free will commitment-phobic older sister after returning from a long mining reliving her youth, reunite during a mission outside the solar system to find major blackout in Puerto Rico after a their human overlords destroyed by devastating loss to the family. nuclear warfare.

sftv.lmu.edu 21 10 Jamil A. O'Quinn

424 298 9581 [email protected] jamilakimoquinn.com Instagram: @joquinn06 Twitter: @joquinn06 Facebook: jamilakimoquinn

22 A queer nerd from Compton, Theodicy (Pilot, One Hour Drama) California, navigating life with a Sex, drugs, and debauchery is not what disability, Jamil loves media arts and you expect in divinity school. But for academia in a world that imposes a this theological protégé who enters narrow vision of what it means to be a seminary, the sacred veil of religion Black man. A writer, director, and actor, is lifted when cutthroat competition he holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and threatens to reveal his darkest secrets a Master of Divinity from Princeton. that could destroy his family legacy. After performing in the national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” Jamil Street Sweep (Feature, Drama) The returned to Los Angeles for an MFA in ivy league becomes a distant dream Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount once Jordan Price is thrown on the University. As an LMU student, Jamil streets and has to navigate her pursuit created and produced the inaugural of college from a Los Angeles homeless “Black” in Business speaker series, tent community. highlighting top Black executives from Diverse Representation, JuVee LMU SFTV Social Justice Screenplay Productions, and HBO. Jamil is Award 2020 dedicated to writing layered, queer, family narratives that give voice to systemically voiceless communities.

And, A Child Will Lead (Feature, Drama (Based on a True Story)) When the most powerful man in the march to freedom fails to break segregation codes in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, the last person anyone would expect to make Dr. King’s dream a reality is a 10-year-old girl known as the "Civil Rights Queen."

sftv.lmu.edu 23 11 Simon Sierra

747 275 9815 [email protected] simonsierra.com Faacebook: Simon Sierra

24 It was the violence of the Medellín Here Comes Midnight (Feature, Cartel that sent his parents running, but Drama) Toiling away at a demolition it was the infidelities of his grandfathers project going nowhere on the cruel that kept them from ever going back. coastline of Vancouver, a deadbeat The son of two Colombians who seizes the chance to start anew when exchanged car bombs and estranged he steals his dead brother's identity and families for a quiet life in Vancouver, with it, his brother's dreams of making Canada, Simon was born out of their it in Hollywood. search for something better. Growing up listening to stories told in a language The Ballad of Clancy Fogle and Arlo that wasn’t his about a world he’s never Rhodes (Pilot, One-Hour Crime known, he turned to telling stories of Dramedy) A pair of Alcatraz escapees his own. In his writing, Simon traces his reunite after more than half a century parents’ steps to confront what they left on the run, bringing an obsessive behind and what they went looking for— Marshal and his blind dog back onto the journeying alongside the dreamers who trail of their suddenly not-so-cold case. risk everything to cross the frontiers of his pages so that he, too, can search for Jack-Rabbits (Pilot, One-Hour something better. Drama/Biopic (Limited Series)) Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and 99¢ Dreams (Feature, Crime Montgomery Clift gather in the middle Thriller) Desperate to post bail after of Nevada in hopes of making “the the love of his life is seized by ICE, an ultimate motion picture”—only to end undocumented dishwasher descends up with a box-office flop and a fatal, into the underbelly of California’s final act to each of their lives. Based on Central Valley and a bloody bidding war the 1961 production of The Misfits. for the severed head of a man everyone is looking for.

sftv.lmu.edu 25 12 Savannah Solorio

817 422 6443 [email protected]

26 Growing up in a strict Catholic cover band has her free-spirited household, Savannah was taught that lifestyle threatened when her thinking out of the box is dangerous. estranged daughter is kicked out of But when searching the web for Juilliard and comes back into her life. answers to questions she wouldn’t dare ask in church, she stumbled upon The Way We Are (Feature, Drama) a “Gay Test.” Her score? “99% - YAS, At Brigham Young University, a QWEEN!” That one quiz led Savannah journalism student is tasked to cover down a baby gay rabbit hole which breaking news of the LDS church culminated in consuming six seasons of declaring LGBT members traitors. “The L Word” in a month. As an adult, After interviewing a lesbian student, Savannah now recognizes the negative she begins to fall in love, forcing her portrayal in the past and (lez be honest) to question the bigoted ideas of her recent queer storylines. She became a Mormon university and religion. screenwriter in hopes to bring positive LGBT representation to the screen Winner: 2020 LMU SFTV Pope through stories depicting badass female Francis Award protagonists finding their way in this convoluted world. Nominee: 2020 LMU SFTV Awards Best Graduate Feature The Poetess (Feature, Period Dramedy) "After a thwarted Metamorphoses (Pilot, One- assassination attempt, renowned Hour Drama/Fantasy/Horror) A poet Sappho is forced into exile in bartender discovers that she’s the ancient Sicily, where her hubris and last surviving member of Medusa’s terrible advice on love from Aphrodite bloodline, hunted by Poseidon. jeopardizes her dreams of artistic Chased back to the all-female cult she greatness. once escaped, she seeks protection in the form of an Athenian prophecy. The Motherscratchers (Pilot, One- Hour Dramedy) A forty-something middle school teacher in a classic rock

sftv.lmu.edu 27 13 Stanley Swindling

954 701 0693 [email protected] stanswinfilm.com Instagram: @stanswinfilm Twitter: @stanswinfilm

28 Stanley Swindling is used to straddling group of “Gen Zero” twentysomethings two worlds. Born into the cultural convene in a Palm Springs mansion to wasteland of 1995 South Florida, he’s celebrate their final hours on Earth. too young to identify as a millennial, too old to claim Gen Z. While earning Winner: Best Graduate Screenplay, 2020 a BFA in Film, Stanley found himself LMU SFTV Awards torn between a love for both studio tentpoles and arthouse cinema. His Armadillo (Feature, Thriller/Horror) work reflects this dysphoria, charting Central Texas, 2003: Easton, a stoic a provocative middle ground between line cook still grieving the loss of his the independent and the mainstream. younger brother, befriends a close-knit Recurrent themes in his scripts include trio of eccentric locals. Unearthing the mania, identity, and the exploration of group's deadly secret offers him the privilege and masculinity. With training chance to move on ... if he can use his in directing and acting in addition to wits to survive. writing, Stanley aspires to triple-threat status, producing genre-blending Magic Time (Feature, Historical stories which speak to the zeitgeist with Drama) Idiosyncratic coffeehouse startling authenticity. owner Joe Cino allows queer playwrights to stage their radical The Enigma (Feature, Erotic Thriller) productions amidst the turbulent Novelist Dan Alistair is reeling from a milieu of 1960s Greenwich Village. public scandal when he meets beguiling Based on the true story of the newcomer Evan Verde at a secluded Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off- writer’s retreat. When Evan uses their Off Broadway. experiences to tell a twisted story, Dan becomes obsessed with uncovering his False Crime (Pilot, One-Hour Dark secrets, pushing them beyond erotic Comedy) When a run-in with an fixation to the brink of madness. old acquaintance turns fatal, public radio host Ezra Webster uses his Nights on Fire (Feature, Drama)In misfortune to fuel a sensational true- 2051, when the effects of climate change crime podcast. have made the planet inhospitable, a

sftv.lmu.edu 29 30 Writing and Producing for Television Graduates 01 Alexandra Aguas

212 203 2872 [email protected] Instagram: @lexaaguas Twitter: @lexaaguas

32 As the daughter of an immigrant, Doom Dames (Pilot, Half-Hour Lexa was encouraged to take every Comedy) An unskilled duo of opportunity presented to her and twentysomething women must try to follow her interests. As luck would have survive as they road trip across the it, she was interested in everything! country in the midst of total societal While others were collecting Pokémon collapse. Where can a bitch get brunch in cards, Lexa collected hobbies: scuba this wasteland? “Broad City” meets “The diving, golf, playing the piano and Last Man on Earth.” double bass (not at the same time, she’s tried), hydroponic farming, and more. Kurt Vonnegut’s Tomorrows (Pilot, This insatiable curiosity brought her One-HourDrama-Dark Comedy/Sci Fi) to study Biotechnology at Rensselaer In a population-controlled utopian future Polytechnic Institute in frigid upstate where death only happens via volunteer, New York. In her writing, Lexa draws on assisted suicide nurse Leora Duncan her experience of being a queer woman uncovers the dark secret that a schism in the male-dominated sciences. She has split the country into two vastly tells authentic and inclusive character- different societies ... and both are being driven stories infused with her unique deceived Based on a pair of short stories viewpoint by combining sci-fi and by Kurt Vonnegut. comedy. Currently, Lexa is exploring her high-octane hobby of extreme The Denunciations (Pilot, One-Hour keyboard building. Historical Drama/Limited Series) Under threat of the brutal Gulag Labor Tesla’s Totally True Adventures (Pilot, camps in 1930s USSR, prodigious Half-Hour Animated Sci-fi Comedy) composer Dmitri Shostakovich is Brilliant engineering student Dot condemned by Joseph Stalin. The must keep her boss, famed eccentric timid artist must choose: cower to the inventor Nikola Tesla, out of trouble as totalitarian leader to protect his young his absurd contraptions wreak havoc on family or become a martyr for the sake of 1920s New York City where he battles advancing music. Based on a true story. his longtime rival, Thomas Edison.

sftv.lmu.edu 33 02 Emanuella Bettarello deOliveira

954 683 8845 [email protected] Instagram: @ebettarello Twitter: @ebettarello

34 Ella was always a puzzle solver. As a kid, Exchanged (Pilot, Half Hour Teen she watched bloody true crime shows Dramedy) A Brazilian exchange student with her mom, where they’d scream obsessed with American pop culture their theories at the TV about who the navigates life in the U.S. as she compares murderer was. At 17, she moved from reality to characters and circumstances her home country of Brazil to the United she grew up watching—all while States to pursue her own American desperately dodging deportation. dream. There, as an outsider, she pondered a new puzzle: where do I fit in? The Penthouse (Pilot, One Hour During those first few years of adapting Teen Drama/Mystery) One year after to a new culture, Ella found comfort in two horrible murders take place in a writing her own teen murder mysteries luxurious penthouse, a guilty teenage to post online for her friends back home. girl and her four best friends must face Her work gained more traction than she the consequences of their involvement ever anticipated. Strangers engaged in that tragic night as they learn their with the world and characters she had lies might have helped the killer escape. created! With a renewed confidence, Ella found that her home could not Huxley Valley (Pilot, One Hour be far away as long as she was able to Drama) A fucked-up reality TV show create mysteries for others to unfold. family—addicted to the spotlight and Nowadays, Ella writes for all of the other their made-up season arcs—has to puzzle solvers out there who feel alone. cover their asses when one of them brazenly commits a murder. Fallmore (Pilot, One Hour Drama/ Horror/Mystery) After a nightmare where her best friend is killed by a terrifying creature, a teenage girl wakes up to find that not only is he missing in real life, but no one in the seemingly perfect town of Fallmore seems to remember he ever existed.

sftv.lmu.edu 35 03 Calee Coleman

585 205 0120 [email protected] Instagram: @cal_a_cola Facebook: Cal Coleman

36 Once upon a time in a land far away, a Gardenia (Feature, Animated Family young princess, Cal Coleman, grew up Feature) In a once lush and magical in the New York countryside. She twirled kingdom, two quarreling siblings, about in footsie pajamas & a plastic tiara, Ida and Ezra, must learn to see from singing (screeching) about adventure, each other's point of view as they true love, and her desire for something travel into the past to find a magic beyond the confines of the tiny rural dancing flower and save their kingdom town. Her wishes on shooting stars, from its arid desert future. Inspired dodging of potentially fatal apples, and by Hans Christian Andersen's Little inclinations to kiss frogs forced her to Ida’s Flowers. realize that you have to morph those lofty dreams into a permanent reality yourself. Zoey & Zara & the Zaniest Zoo (Pilot, An idealist and hopeless romantic, Cal Half-Hour Comedy/Children's hopes to write stories that will make Animation) After their parent's open children and parents alike think deeply a zoo and wildlife rehabilitation center about the real-life heroes and villains that full of fantasy creatures, sisters Zoey encompass them every day. With magic and Zara learn communication and in hand, she sets off, no longer singing social cues through song and sign terribly about the something more she language with their new animal friends. longs for, but creating it herself. Down Memory Lane (Pilot, One MYTHIC (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ Hour Drama) When the death of their Animated Family) Inspired by the childhood friend leaves them the deed works of Hans Christian Andersen. After to a house, six friends are forced to the theft of Peatopia’s magic royal pea, reunite and use the lessons they learned the mystery of Mother Mythic unfolds as playing together as kids as a map for Princess Viv, Prince Agner, and Farmer navigating adult life. Penelope venture off into lands unknown to protect the magic and prevent a young girl from becoming a true villain.

sftv.lmu.edu 37 04 DeLaynna Corley

734 353 5966 [email protected] delaynnacorley.com Instagram: @ladeeda____ Twitter: @delaynna_corley

38 While other kids were outside catching We Are The Unicorns (Pilot, Half Hour cooties, DeLaynna was inside, watching Mockumentary Sitcom) After several television with her family. They saw failed attempts to obtain a job, Mellie, an television as art, scheduling their aspiring and whimsical teacher, decides to lives around shows and ignoring calls create a co-ed scout troop for kids who are from bill collectors as the theme songs unpopular oddballs like her. played. Bouncing between two Black worlds with a Caribbean mother and a The Shopping Network (Pilot, Half- Southern father, DeLaynna spent her Hour Comedy) Corinne, a struggling days growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, empty nester, gets the opportunity to start surrounded by too many white people in her career for the first time by landing a AP classrooms and choir leagues. While job as a co-host on a failing and eccentric attending Columbia College Chicago, shopping network, after posting a viral fan she completed her Creative Writing B.A. video about the company. early, and fell in love with her added minor in Television Writing. Her stories Other People (Pilot, Half-Hour are inspired by her family, and luckily, Dramedy) After being fired from another they haven't disowned her yet because job, Chace, a passionate yet stubborn of them. As a writer, DeLaynna focuses journalist, decides to create an online on Black female leads and coming-of- magazine with the help of her juvenile age narratives with themes of friendship, brother and apathetic sister, hoping that romance, and second chances. it will reshape their careers and lives.

Sid and Bugaboo (Pilot, Half- Zelda (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) Based Hour Animated Series (Age 8-13 on a true story about fashion designer, demographic)) When an adventurous Zelda Valdes, who created the iconic eleven-year-old girl gets into trouble Playboy bunny suit. Through glamorizing one too many times, a Bogeyman is sent dresses for curvier women, Zelda fights to scare her straight. But this monster racism, sexism, and inner turmoil in an turns out not to be the scary creature that industry that was never designed for her. she thought he would be, creating an unlikely friendship between the two.

sftv.lmu.edu 39 05 Samantha A. D'Amico

302 373 7096 [email protected] Instagram: @samantha_annn14 Twitter: @sam_damico14

40 Born and raised in Delaware to a chef hunting game by the offer of a wealthy and a scientist in a progressive Catholic investor, Dr. Ginny Gold must grapple family, the First State is engrained in with her personal demons in order to Samantha’s heart. After beginning lead a crew of experts in search of the her college career as a pre-med major, world’s most elusive treasures. Samantha soon realized her love of television outweighed medicine. Pretty Who Killed Sister Kathy? (Pilot, soon, Samantha knew she had to be a One-Hour Drama/Crime Procedural) writer to truly express herself. While Special Agent Elizabeth Jett and pursuing a degree in Communications, her unit re-open unsolved murder she decided to finally embrace the cases throughout the MidAtlantic formidable imagination she has shared region, all while Jett attempts to solve with her twin sister since childhood. the cold case of her twin sister, a Samantha writes dramas, each Benedictine nun. intertwined by a historical thread, which explore love, grief, family, and HMHS Royal Comfort (Pilot, One- being who you are, and being that well. Hour Historical/Medical Procedural) She is represented by Matt Prater at Eleanor Allen and a group of British CSP Management. Army nurses and doctors must treat and care for the wounded men on The First State (Pilot, One-Hour board a hospital ship during World Historical Drama)Set in the industrial, War I as they battle their own personal primarily immigrant, town of secrets and traumas. Wilmington, Delaware in 1905, Eileen Brennan, a new Irish immigrant, must Old Mother & The Street Rats (Pilot, navigate politics, love, and betrayal. One-Hour Historical/Action Drama) Meanwhile, the family she works New York City 1865: Confidence for, the aristocratic Beauchamps, woman Birdie Dox is forced by a battle to stay atop the social and mysterious and conniving woman to professional ladder. team up with a group of young thieves called the Street Rats to perform Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Drama elaborate heists to keep her criminal Competition (2020) enterprise afloat.

Gold (Pilot, One-Hour Adventure/ Drama) When a socially anxious genius is tempted to return to a treasure

sftv.lmu.edu 41 06 Michaela Deaton

516 592 1066 [email protected] Instagram: @michaeladeaton

42 Michaela grew up in the town of Flight of Kin (Pilot, One-Hour Massapequa, New York, where she Family Drama) While on a tour full of lived within blocks of her whole family. sex, drugs, and lies, a band comprised Being from Long Island, she has a lot of four talented siblings fight with of family members in law enforcement their label for more independence and only noticed it's not a very common but are sabotaged by their manager, thing until she went to the University who also happens to be their of Tennessee to study journalism as a controlling mother. first-generation college student. While working at a news station, Michaela Devil’s Mark (Pilot, One-Hour realized she wants to create stories and Fantasy/Crime Drama) Witches are not just track them down. She uses her dying at the hands of exorcists, and on upbringing and investigative skills to the anniversary of her mother’s death, write crime and family dramas that a witch regains her lost powers to be involve ambitious ensemble casts. the savior she never planned on being. With these abilities, she must face the Coney Island (Pilot, One-Hour demons from her past, including her Historical/Crime Drama) Coney missing father and estranged brother. Island, 1881—In a town built on blood and money, a charming henchman Bluff Cove (Pilot, One-Hour YA infiltrates a prominent gang to avenge Drama) In this “West Side Story” his family, all while Coney Island is on the beach, a group of go with the on the rise to becoming America’s flow teens get up at the crack of dawn playground. to catch some waves and escape the pressures of life, but the waters get Bomb Squad (Pilot, One-Hour overcrowded when a group of rival Drama/Crime Procedural) The surfers encroach on their territory. fearless officers of the NYPD Bomb Squad don’t just make up a unit, they’re a family. With each of them chomping at the bit to draw the short straw to suit up and defuse any threat, the families of these thrill-seeking individuals struggle to understand their drive to rush into harm.

sftv.lmu.edu 43 07 Seth Finkelstein

781 248 9720 [email protected] sethfkl.com Twitter: @SuperSeth64

44 Rocketed to Earth from the planet Lord Chamberlain's Men (Feature, Krypton by two desperate scientists, Historical Heist Comedy) After their Seth Finkelstein touched down north landlord refuses to extend the lease of Boston and was taken in by a kindly on their theater, William Shakespeare Jewish couple. After attending NYU’s and his acting company decide to steal Experimental Theatre Wing where the entire building plank-by-plank and he majored in rolling around on the relocate it to secure a future for their floor and screaming, Seth moved out creative work. to LA to pursue his dream of writing TV comedy. A lifelong nerd, he loves Archenemy (Pilot, One-Hour Drama) picking apart and finding new angles on Stuart Stevens is sure that he’s going historical, sci-fi, and animated genres. to become a superhero when he’s Seth performs live comedy at UCB and audience to a science experiment gone The Pack Theater, contributes to the wrong. But when his jock former best video game satire website Hard Drive, friend saves him and gets superpowers and visits Disneyland way more than an from the accident, Stuart decides to adult man should. Don’t get him started become a supervillain and take back the on the Haunted Mansion. powers that are rightfully his.

Toonmates (Pilot, Half-Hour Live Lil' Miss Kate - Ward of the State Action/Animated Comedy) It’s a (Narrative Comedy Podcast) The dream come true when flesh-and- continuing adventures of 1941’s second- blood fanboy Alex Kepple moves in favorite precocious orphan adventurer! with cartoon former child star Roy Will 10-year-old Kate and her motley Thompson. Now, he just has to hide that crew of adult enablers finally find her his family are the ones gentrifying the long-lost parents? toon town he now calls home.

sftv.lmu.edu 45 08 Hannah Herman

717 419 3268 [email protected] hherman.work

46 When everyone was more upset about operating base in war-torn Iraq, finds the harvest delay than her cousin’s three himself reckoning with the past as he missing finger digits, Hannah realized and his peers handle the everyday duties the rural midwest wasn’t built for an that rarely make history. anxious and uncoordinated kid like her. Eventually escaping her big irreverent Failure to Thrive (Pilot, Half-Hour family and the Amish farm towns of Dark Comedy) Lenny tackles a chronic her youth, Hannah landed at Boston illness and her twenties without University as an immunocompromised getting pregnant, married or killed. guinea pig and Blue Chip scholar. She’s Welcome to the underworld of the been told her compulsive laughter immunosuppressed, where ports and during injections is just a nervous pills act as a life support, but even that response to pain, but Hannah also finds can’t prepare her for the trauma that it emblematic of her work highlighting is adulting. the inevitable overlap between joy and suffering. Hannah writes about Pot Town (Pilot, One-Hour Crime/ dysfunctional families, institutional Family Drama) When two brothers failings, and the unconventional ways find themselves on opposing sides people cope with pain and trauma. in California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, allegiances Barren (Pilot, Half-Hour Dark are tested within the tight-lipped Comedy/Magical Realism) In the community that calls America’s pot aftermath of their baby’s stillbirth, capital home. eccentric couple Marlow and Dev clash with overbearing loved ones, outspoken Codependent (Pilot, Half-Hour neighbor kids, and each other while Dramedy) Years after their mother trying to reconcile their newfound died of breast cancer, neurotic Quinn, reality. Bottling up her emotions, now a mom herself, feels a lump and Marlow begins to hear inanimate enlists the help of her estranged older objects speak as they spew out the sister Marti, a recovering addict, to feelings she hopes to keep suppressed. hide her diagnosis from her young family. The two codependent sisters Boots (Pilot, One-Hour Military soon realize family history has a way of Drama) A combat soldier, demoted to repeating itself. a squad of lowly grunts on a forward

sftv.lmu.edu 47 09 Mackenzie Hively

805 910 6067 [email protected] Instagram: @machively Twitter: @MacHively

48 As a descendent of Mary Queen of Scots, family must join him in rehab, where Mackenzie knew that in order to succeed the entire family’s problems are put in life she’d need a good head on her under a microscope. Addiction is a shoulders, so she became a debutante. family disease. Unfortunately, family is Unfortunately, that wasn’t a viable career incurable. option. Instead of being proposed to by the eligible bachelors of Thousand Oaks, Reckoning (Pilot, One-Hour California, she’s been kicked out of a Dystopian Fantasy Drama) After sorority, tased, broken eight bones, and losing everything to the fallen angels was once convinced she was pregnant that have taken over the world under with the Messiah (don’t judge, Catholic the cruel direction of the Archangel school does things to the rational mind.) Gabriel, impulsive Evie Porter is After studying Political Science and hell-bent on joining the underground Theatre at Tulane University, Mackenzie human resistance and getting revenge realized she was closer to losing her against anything with wings. head than ever before … so she became a writer! Mackenzie writes about strong Night Falls (Pilot, One-Hour Fantasy women forced to reckon with their Drama) The city of Night Falls has demons—personal and otherwise. a vampire problem. To protect her brother and avoid being a midnight Immaculate (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) snack, Stella Vaughn becomes the The Second Coming is ruined when the assistant to eccentric vampire detective Angel Raphael accidentally impregnates Axel Dubois, while he investigates a the wrong woman with the next Messiah. string of perplexing vampire deaths that Now, as punishment for his mistake, have thrown the entire city into a tizzy. Raphael is forced to live on Earth as a human and help the not-so-virgin Mary Stoney Lonesome (Pilot, One-Hour through her journey as the (accidentally) Drama) With her reputation and bank chosen one. account in turmoil after her husband is arrested, a spoiled socialite moves Dysfunctional (Pilot, One-Hour in with her estranged sister to rebuild Dramedy) When a college freshman her life and their relationship from the discovers her straight-laced, nerdy father ground up. is addicted to crystal meth, she and her

sftv.lmu.edu 49 10 Candice Horde

281 740 2015 [email protected] linkedin.com/in/candicehorde/ Instagram: @CandiceGabrielleH Twitter: @CandiceHorde

50 The youngest of eight, Candice was with extreme anxiety that manifests in an extrovert to avoid being forgotten imaginative ways, a recluse embarks and a goody-two-shoes to balance on nail-biting and deeply personal her rebellious siblings. Stories full of adventures in the hopes of forging adventure and community became her unbreakable bonds with new friends saving grace after her step-dad died. from film school and living a life she can His death and those stories helped sell in a screenplay. her realize life was too short to live in mundanity, so she became a rebel The Fittest (Pilot, Half-Hour Drama, without a cause. However, after a wild Anime/Fantasy/Sci-fi) Newly deemed high school life filled with two non- terrorists set out to prove their loyalty violent arrests and an egged police car, by capturing their country’s most- she realized life wasn’t short enough wanted terrorist group called Specter. to live in jail. So, post collegiate soul However, as they spend more time searching, she chose an equally radical with the country’s undesirables, they but fully legal career plan that allows start to question where their loyalties her to tell stories about intersectional should lie. women overcoming past traumas to live lives full of adventure and community. Charm School (Pilot, Half-Hour She prays one day her stories enrich lives Dramedy) Three enterprising college the way others' stories did for her. freshmen, forced to attend Charm School classes, promise to help each CTRL (Pilot, One-Hour Drama, other take back their personal agency. Grounded Fantasy/Sci-fi)A sheltered Their first order of business? Starting teen thought her biggest obstacle in an enterprise that rivals OnlyFans. high school would be grieving her dad. Little did she know, his death makes her DIVE (Feature, Drama/Sci-fi/ the target of multiple magical factions Psychological Thriller) In a post wrestling for her powers and hacking WWIII world that criminalizes emotion skills crucial to finding a totem that and inefficiency, the patriotism of a awards god-like power. top bio-psychologist and his guard are gravely tested when they’re forced to Everyone and Everything Sucks mentor a high government official’s (Pilot, One-Hour Dramedy) Riddled manic daughter.

sftv.lmu.edu 51 11 Alexis F. Hunter

615 438 7779 [email protected] alexisfhunter.com

52 Alexis is watching you. But not in Good Vibes (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) a creepy way. Really! She’s just an Ex-nun Rosie, 20s, returns to her observant person. Or at least she likes to childhood home and is tasked with think so. Growing up the second of four saving the family business: a sex shop. children, in a southern household that Now she must survive religious guilt- spanned four generations, she realized trips, awkward encounters with old foes, early she had a strong desire to really and self-righteous zealots who want the understand people. It took her a little shop gone. longer to realize that would be through writing. Armed with that innate curiosity, Old Swan Hotel (Pilot, One-Hour a very expensive Psychology mistake Drama/Historical/Limited Series) (oops, I mean degree!), and a painfully In patriarchal England, soon-to-be dry sense of humor, Alexis writes stories divorced mystery writer Agatha Christie about people searching for their place in orchestrates the perfect crime, her own the world—with her own special brand of disappearance. She must figure out how reluctant optimism. to put her shattered life back together before the quirky detective hot on her tail Botany Bay (Pilot, One-Hour catches up to her. Inspired by her real-life Drama/YA Adventure/Fantasy) disappearance. When a troubled young woman’s investigation into her high school Peachy (One-Act Play) A confrontation- crush’s disappearance leads her into an averse bride-to-be and her opinionated entirely new dimension—a failed penal younger sister’s bond is tested as an colony with supernatural forces, feuding evening of wedding planning dissolves inhabitants, and mortal danger– she into attempted sabotage and chaos, must find the truth while also trying to revealing old strains in their relationship. find a way back.

sftv.lmu.edu 53 12 Mario Johnson

619 341 9629 [email protected] rioeddie.com Instagram: @rioeddie Twitter: @Rio_Eddie Faacebook: facebook.com/rio.eddie.9

54 Whaddupdoe! Rio sprouted from Pirated Dreams (Pilot, Half-Hour the streets of Motown Hitsville USA Comedy-Fantasy (Animated/Live and General Motors, surrounded by Action)) A recently orphaned boy senseless crimes, while trying to enjoy moves in with his cranky uncle and a Coney Dog. By the grace of God, discovers another world within his Rio was able to escape to a ship that dreams where he searches for his lost sailed around foreign and domestic parents in a flying pirate ship with his seas, where he fought bad guys to motormouth pooch by his side. protect home. This happened after he was tricked into signing a 4-year SPUDS (Pilot, Half-Hour Animated contract by a guy wearing a cape and Comedy) In a Potato Universe, one a dixie cup hat … A Navy Recruiter. Hashbrown discovers the true identity Rio was their only option. He was of a long-lost fallen hero known as deployed twice and damn proud. He Spudderman and rehabilitates him, doesn’t curse that much, I promise. and the two team up to keep their eyes Rio’s adventures overseas are largely peeled for tater-ous foes. classified. You can expect to see those experiences channeled into his trippy Sidelined (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) stories. Rio is dedicated to inspire other After suffering a career threatening young minority writers that anything injury, an aging basketball phenom is possible if you believe, even if you’re struggles with accepting a backseat to from the Dirty Glove … Detroit. his wife as she becomes the family’s sole breadwinner. Whittier (Pilot, One-Hour Mystery/ Sci-fi Drama) A Navy sailor enlists at a mysterious Naval Reserves base to be closer to his dying mother and discovers he’s transporting aliens and an unknown medicine that could potentially save his mom’s life.

sftv.lmu.edu 55 13 Patrick Kelly

781 974 5940 [email protected]

56 As a kid, Patrick moved back and Demon Code (Pilot, One-Hour forth between North Carolina and Drama/Sci-Fi) After a teenaged hacker Massachusetts, never knowing exactly summons a sardonic demon through where to call home. For hundreds her computer, the two band together of years, his ancestors had a similar to hunt down legions of escaped history of bouncing between the same hellspawn in order to restore her two states. Looks like they didn’t know mother’s sanity. where they belonged either. The loudest of five kids in an Irish Catholic family, New Alaska (Pilot, One-Hour Drama/ Patrick found a home onstage in high Thriller) A Native fisherwoman and school and went on to get a Theater a jaded veteran take on the state, degree. After college, he worked a the feds, and the world as they start series of odd jobs. He was employed as a revolution to make Alaska its own a “chore boy” on an island commune, a independent nation. custom art framer, as well as a tutor at a non-profit for at-risk kids in rural North The Tide (Pilot,One Hour Drama/ Carolina. Patrick channels his years Thriller) After stealing from an spent wandering into stories about the international terrorist, a modern little guy rising up to fight the man, and day Indonesian pirate finds himself outsiders in search of home. tangled in a CIA investigation led by a ruthless agent. Black Friday (Feature, Horror Comedy) When the overly chipper manager of a corporate craft store goes on a homicidal rampage the night before the biggest shopping day of the year, a beaten down employee and his co-workers will have to fight for their lives (and minimum wage)!

sftv.lmu.edu 57 14 Edwin L. Martin

786 501 3046 [email protected] xlorenzom.com

58 From Miami, not Florida, Lorenzo’s After Hours (Pilot, One Hour Drama) stories reflect his many eclectic After her boyfriend Clayton goes interests, personal encounters, and missing and stuck with mounting eavesdropped conversations. Having debt, Chanel dances to make ends grown up in multiple environments, meet while trying to figure out what and earning his BA in English and MFA happened to him. in Television Writing and Producing, Lorenzo has developed skills in Big Dick Energy (Pilot, Half-Hour adapting his experiences and molding Comedy) Unhappy with his life them into multifaceted characters. (and lack of endowment), Charlie’s When not taking photographs, he problems are about to get a whole lot writes (or avoids writing) pilots and bigger when he undergoes a penis screenplays featuring black leads enlargement surgery. with multi-dimensional personalities challenging every stereotype imaginable.

Black Men Don't Cheat (Pilot, Half-Hour Comedy) Tired of doing what’s expected of him, Marcus leaves medicine to pursue acting while he and his roommates, Jaylen and Andre, figure out life in a rapidly changing South Central LA.

sftv.lmu.edu 59 15 Ethan Raduns-Silverstein

646 271 2658 [email protected] Instagram: @ethan.big.man Twitter: @ethan_raduns Facebook: Ethan Raduns-Silverstein

60 An actor at heart, Ethan learned to Tent Play (Feature, One Act Play) hog attention and hold for applause. During a pandemic, two acquaintances He’s the loudest person he knows, but house-sit their friend's apartment prides himself on being a good listener. and discover a tent with an unknown Born in New York City, the middle of resident inside. three brothers and the son of a dildo salesman and a shrink, Ethan is driven The Horizon Air Disaster (Feature, to make people laugh with his particular One Act Play) A baggage handler at a brand of brash, bohemian sarcasm. He small airport hijacks a plane and takes likes to write larger-than-life characters it for a joyride, before nose-diving into with relatable, existential problems. Puget Sound. This is his absurd, mostly Since moving to Los Angeles, Ethan has true story. focused on writing snappy dialogue, thought-provoking situations, and not Three-Five (Pilot, Sketch Packet) getting into car accidents. A collection of three, five-page sketches. Inside you’ll find the true The Last Greatest (Pilot, Half-Hour story of Augustus Gloop, an only child Comedy) Fighting bankruptcy, the struggling to function as an adult, and a owner of the last traveling circus train chivalrous virgin finally getting lucky. in America must improve the act and generate ticket sales or it's curtains for him and his eclectic cast and crew.

Jew Camp (Pilot, One-Hour Comedy) In the early 2000’s, three mischievous preteens accidentally infiltrate their counselor’s pot-selling business in the forest in Canada.

sftv.lmu.edu 61 16 Preston Ray

405 882 8994 [email protected]

62 Raised in the middle of nowhere Weird (Pilot, One-Hour Supernatural Oklahoma by both a psychologist and Drama) When committing any of the a funeral director, Preston learned two seven deadly sins can transform her things at an early age: Everybody is into a devilish monster, a very sarcastic crazy and we’re all going to die. With and naïve college freshman decides to this came more than his fair share of harness the power of this curse to battle morbid curiosity. That, and a certain the sinister demons of the supernatural inclination towards writing in the field world hidden just below the surface of of specters and spells and slitherings in Austin, Texas. the cellar. Regarding the horror story as the highest form of art, Preston Project Rewind (Pilot, One- continues sifting through the sludge Hour Drama/Science Fiction) A of our subconscious fears to write new disillusioned CIA drone operator is tales of terror that tingle the spine recruited into a top-secret military time and touch the heart, always drawing travel operation that sends him back to inspiration from personal slices of 1950s Las Vegas, where he is the last life that he carefully carves with a line of defense between Soviet spies very large, sharp and possibly blood- and the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. splattered knife. The Listeners (Feature, Horror No Man's Land (Pilot, One-Hour Thriller) A young husband and Drama/Historical Horror) In a wife with a strained marriage are dying Dust Bowl town suffering from moving cross country when they find the outbreak of a strange disease, themselves lost on an isolated desert a headstrong epidemiologist finds highway where they are terrorized and herself facing off against an ancient, attacked by an insane, Bible-thumping, supernatural entity. talk radio host.

sftv.lmu.edu 63 17 Addison Woodside

503 277 8886 [email protected] addisonwoodside.com Instagram: @4ddison Twitter: @addisonwoodside Facebook: Addison Woodside

64 Addison was born in Singapore to two Hen House (Feature, Dark Comedy white Americans. She moved all over Horror) A young bride-to-be and her Asia with her Evangelical Christian five bridesmaids retreat to a secluded parents. They weren’t technically vacation home in rural Oregon. After missionaries, but she did try to convert partaking in the Oregonian rituals of her International classmates by leading eating shrooms, drinking, and—of her own Bible study and youth group in course—smoking weed, the girls find high school. It didn’t work. She loves to themselves stalked and trapped in the write about her experiences growing up desert by a strangely familiar man. overseas, losing her religion, and just, like, how it feels to be a girl. Addison Drastic Times (Pilot, One-Hour Sci- managed to spend a few formative years Fi-Thriller-Dramedy) Two women: a in Portland, Oregon. Yes, she’s seen bumbling FBI agent and a shy physicist Portlandia and, yeah, it is like that. fall in love while trying to save the world from an invisible force set loose Evangelicals (Pilot, Half-Hour by a cult of power-hungry scientists. Dramedy) When wannabe investigative reporter Jess Navarro goes undercover at a trendy new Evangelical church, her secular worldview turns technicolor as she experiences a wild spiritual transformation—leaving her boss and childhood best friend in utter disbelief.

Virtually Real (Pilot, Half-Hour Sci- Fi-Comedy) After buying a virtual reality game that lets you re-live your memories, a failed computer engineer hacks the software to rewrite her lackluster relationship with her first (almost) boyfriend.

sftv.lmu.edu 65 Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television

Founded in 1911, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a premier Catholic university in Los Angeles rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions. Movie industry moguls helped establish LMU’s Westchester campus, on the bluffs above West L.A., in the 1920s. By 1964 LMU was formally teaching a film and television curriculum, and in 2001 the School of Film and Television (SFTV) was established as a standalone school within the university.

SFTV offers two intensive, three-year graduate screenwriting programs, conferring Master of Fine Arts degrees in Writing for the Screen (for aspiring screenwriters) and Writing and Producing for Television (for aspiring showrunners). Admission to these programs is highly selective, with fewer than 20 students in each cohort to keep classes small and engagement high. Our programs develop each student’s artistry and unique voice, while also providing professional mentoring and networking opportunities that prepare students to successfully navigate the rapidly changing media and entertainment industry.

66 Notable LMU Screenwriting Alumni

Melissa Blake (One Mississippi, Sleepy Hollow, Ghost Whisperer, Heroes, Criminal Minds) Effie Brown (Producer: Dear White People, Real Women Have Curves CEO of GameChanger Prods) Gloria Calderon Kellett (One Day at a Time, How I Met Your Mother) Bryan Davidson (Head of Skydance Animation) Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum) Brian Helgeland (Legend, 42, Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) Sarah Nicole Jones (Legends of Tomorrow, Longmire, Waco) Francis Lawrence (Director and Producer: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I Am Legend) Evan Romansky (Ratched) Emily Spivey (Modern Family, Masterminds, Saturday Night Live) Camille Tucker (The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel) James Wong (The X-Files, Scream Queens, American Horror Story)

LMU Screenwriting Faculty

Karol Ann Hoeffner (Chair) Catlan McClelland Patricia K. Meyer (Graduate Director) Marc Pitre Marilyn Beker Mark Evan Schwartz Ernie Bustamante John Strauss Paul Chitlik Tom Szollosi David Clawson Stephen Ujlaki Michael F.X. Daley Lauren Wilson Jeffrey Davis (Chair, 2011-19) Stephen V. Duncan Michelle Amor Gillie Aurorae Khoo Mary Kuryla

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