THE BLACK LIST 2016 TV WRITERS STAFFING BOOK What is this book? We at the Black List have identified a group of writers who, based on the merits of their spec pilots, we believe have strong potential for staffing on television shows.
What’s included? We’ve included biographical information on all the writers along with information about their pilots. Additionally, we’ve provided links to their pilots on the site so you can read them where available. You’ll need to enter your industry login credentials in order to access these.
How is this organized? We’ve divided the book into drama and comedy writers. Well, technically into anything over a half hour and anything at or below a half hour.
What should I do to contact the writer? The best contact information is listed in each writer’s section along with his or her representation if applicable.
Can I pass this along to anyone? Absolutely, pass along the document to anyone who might find it useful. In order to access any available scripts though, you’ll need an industry account. You may request membership here if you do not already have it. EPISODIC COMEDY WRITERS listed alphabetically by last name Farhan Arshad Farhan holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Northwestern University. He is currently in the Disney Storytellers program where he’ll be writing a pilot for the Disney Channel. Farhan has also written for ABC’s Dr. Ken and Kirby Buckets on Disney XD.
Agency Agent APA Kyle Loftus [email protected]
Management Company Manager New Wave Entertainment Michael Pelmont
CREDITS Dr. Ken The McCarthys Webshorts Kirby Buckets Brownies Webseries
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Emory University Northwestern University B.A. Creative Writing M.F.A. Screenwriting
Adult-ish A young Muslim-American lawyer and her slacker boyfriend must take responsibility for her adolescent cousins after their father is deported.
GENRE Comedy Family Diversity
WHAT IT’S LIKE Fresh off the Boat, Blackish, Grandfathered
DOWNLOAD PILOT Erinne Dobson Erinne’s talent for attracting personal embarrassment began with her first job as a Viagra copywriter. When it became clear her comedic talents would not be needed, she began performing standup and writing dating stories for NYC magazines. She soon moved to L.A won the ABC/Disney Fellowship. Since then she’s been staffed on several comedies, and developed a pilot with Storyline Entertainment.
Management Company Manager Metamorphic Ent. Adesuwa McCalla (310) 770-4314
CREDITS Crash & Bernstein I Didn’t Do It “Parade Crasher,” “Release & The Crashen” Lindy in the Middle
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Carnegie Mellon University The New School B.F.A. M.F.A.
Last Man Standing Baby Daddy Writer’s Assistant Staff Writer
Crash & Bernstein Staff Writer
The Wrongs Two helicopter parents and their wayward teens inadvertently experience personal growth through weekly family therapy assignments.
GENRE Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Modern Family, Arrested Development
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Monique Kim & Nate Grams Monique is a Korean-American actress, singer, writer, and mashup artist. The New Jersey native graduated from Columbia University’s Barnard College with a BA in Psychology. Nate is an actor and writer from Seattle. He received his MFA in Acting from Columbia University, and BA in Theatre from the University of Notre Dame. Monique and Nate met while adapting Annie into a burlesque musical parody for a talent show, for which they won an award for “Most Pornographic.”
Email Phone [email protected] (917) 496-6442
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Barnard College University of Notre Dame BA in Psychology (Monique) BA Theatre (Nate)
Columbia University MFA Acting (Nate)
HOBOKEN INTERNATIONAL! “The Meat Cute” Odd-couple Port Authority Police Officers, quirky Kristen Krampf and by-the-book Mark Mendez, work to solve the crazy crimes at Hoboken International Airport, consistently ranked as the Tri- State’s worst. Supported by the ragtag group from the ticketing desk and Chili’s To-Go, the gang might not be perfect, but they know how to get the job done.
GENRE Comedy Workplace Procedural Silly Action
WHAT IT’S LIKE Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 30 Rock, New Girl
DOWNLOAD PILOT Andrew Hu Andrew was born in Taiwan but raised in Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington. At 18, he was offered an associate position at a Seattle law firm but instead pursued a successful career in business sales. Now a graduate of the American Film Institute, Andrew’s television writing has been honored by The Humanitas Prize, and he recently wrote and directed the short films OK FACES (2015) and JACKPOT (2016).
Management Company Manager Benderspink Daniel Vang
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND American Film Institute M.F.A. Screenwriting
CREDITS Humanitas Prize - Comedy Fellowship Finalist Austin Film Festival - TV Pilot Quarterfinalist Sundance Screenwriters Lab - Semifinalist
Nine to Nine “Harvard” At a mall cell phone store, a team of underachieving dreamers become best friends, family, and occasional exes while living the retail dream.
GENRE Comedy Workplace Comedy Diversity Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Black-ish, Superstore, Arrested Development
DOWNLOAD PILOT Jacob Isser Jacob has sold, optioned, and written projects on assignment, including feature comedy Danny Graves’ Man Cave, sold to Joe Roth and Sony Pictures, graphic novel The Expendable One, adapted for Intrepid Pictures, and How the French Do It, a short story for Nikki Finke’s HollywoodDementia. com. His pilot Hosers was presented as a live reading at the Skirball Center in New York, in association with Fast Company and Black List Live. Named to the 2015 Young & Hungry List.
Management Manager Artillery Creative Tom Carter [email protected] (323) 400-5577
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Yale University B.A. Cognitive Psychology
Hosers Parks & Recreation meets The Bad News Bears: a broad look at the mistakes, misfortunes, and misadventures of a thoroughly dedicated but utterly incompetent small-town volunteer fire department.
GENRE Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Parks and Recreation, The Office, Bad News Bears
DOWNLOAD PILOT Ben Kawaller Ben Kawaller has worked at United Talent Agent and CBS Television Studios. His half-hour pilot The Next Best Thing was the winner of the 2015 JHRTS Pilot Competition for best comedy, ranked among the top 2% of entries in the Tracking Board’s 2015 Launch Pad competition, and was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival’s 2015 Teleplay Competition. He was an official artist at the 2015 NY TV Festival. He has a degree in sociology from Harvard University.
Management Manager Bellevue Productions Jeff Portnoy
Email Phone [email protected] (917) 697-4945
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Harvard University B.A. Sociology
The Next Best Thing A middle-aged gay man faces the upheaval of his closest relationships when he decides to start dating women.
GENRE Comedy Dramedy LGBT
WHAT IT’S LIKE Transparent, Togetherness, Catastrophe
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Nick Lopez & Russ Nickel Nick and Russ became friends at Chapman University. Nick currently works as the Writers’ Assistant/Script coordinator on IFC’s Maron, and before that, competed nationally on the tennis circuit. Russ co-wrote and co-produced Bear with Us, an independent feature starring Christy Carlson Romano and Cheyenne Jackson, and teaches screenwriting at Stanford University’s summer program.
Email Phone [email protected] (925) 451-5979 [email protected] (619) 818-2295
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Chapman University MFA, Screenwriting (Nick & Russ)
Maron Bear with Us, Feature Film Writers’ Assistant/Script Coordinator (Nick) Co-writer & co-producer (Russ)
Graceland Geomon, Video game acquired by Yahoo! Showrunner’s Assistant (Nick) Staff Writer (Russ)
The First Family Viral Video 2, Trisha Paytas’ Youtube Channel Writers’ Assistant/Script Coordinator (Nick) Writer (Russ)
Graceland Online Interactive Game Writer (Nick)
Otter Space The bullheaded Captain Maximus Otter (an actual otter...who is not literally bull-headed), commands the starship Sclerpo III and its crew of talking animals who’ve been relegated to tasks deemed too menial for the rest of the galactic federation.
GENRE Comedy Sci-Fi Animation
WHAT IT’S LIKE Teen Titans, Futurama, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
DOWNLOAD PILOT Dylan Visvikis Like many people, Dylan was born. Some time later, he graduated from USC with a Screenwriting B.F.A. In between, he played on a Grammy-nominated album as a musician and wrote several scripts awarded by the Austin and Slamdance Film Festivals. Since, he’s written and directed a feature and short, respectively, for producer Stephen Brown (Se7en) and produced an ad for Chevrolet. Now 22, Dylan would like to apologize on behalf of all Millennials. For... everything.
Agency Agents Brady, Brannon & Rich Brandon Lucas & Mark Masten [email protected]
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND USC School of Cinematic Arts B.F.A.Writing for Screen and Television
Sketch “How Can You Not Get Romantic About Sketch Comedy” A group of romantically challenged college kids endeavor to put on a live sketch comedy show every week. They’re often unsuccessful.
GENRE Romantic Comedy Workplace Sitcom Dramedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Sports Night, Love, You’re The Worst
DOWNLOAD PILOT EPISODIC DRAMA WRITERS listed alphabetically by last name Ashley Barrett Before turning his focus to writing, Ashley worked as an actor in film/TV for nearly a decade. He is also an established commercial photographer in the LA/NY markets.
Management Manager Atlas Artists Nick Todisco
Email Phone [email protected] 310-953-1449
Death Of A Parent “Homecoming” After accidentally killing his boss’s brother, hitman Sam Foster flees Los Angeles for Florida, where he reunites with his sister Becca to mourn the death of their mother -- and figure out what to do with their cantankerous father Frank.
GENRE Family Drama Crime Dramedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Bloodline, Transparent, Sopranos
DOWNLOAD PILOT Danielle Barros Danielle joined the workforce full-time at an early age, thus limiting her formal education, but found the life-experiences gained invaluable to her as a writer. When not writing, Danielle holds a screenwriting workshop for low-income elementary school children and is in the process of organizing a filmmaking program for high-risk youth. Danielle has won a number of screenwriting awards and has placed in the 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015 AMPAS Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
Email Phone [email protected] (650) 703-4534
Freud “Rose White” The untold true story of a 29-year-old Sigmund Freud as he struggles with addiction, sexuality, love, and loss while opening his first practice.
GENRE Drama Period Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE House, Masters of Sex, In Treatment
DOWNLOAD PILOT Chris Basler Chris worked as a copywriter for a marketing firm before receiving an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Since then, he’s written for the Blumhouse-produced horror game show series Hellevator, and is currently the script coordinator on the A&E series Bates Motel. He’s developed scripts with Fox TV Studios and Intrigue Entertainment, and his pilot The Governess was the the first ever featured pilot script in the weekly Black List industry emails.
Agency Agent ESA Antoni Kaczmarek, Varun Monga
Management Company Manager Industry Entertainment Ava Jamshidi, Micah Klatzker
Email [email protected]
CREDITS
GrO w - Short film featured in 2015 Tribeca Film Festival 2
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND NYU Tisch Trinity College M.F.A. Dramatic Writing B.F.A. English
Bates Motel Hellevator Script Coordinator Story Producer
The Governess “Chapter I: See to the Children” In 1906 Newport, Clara, a young governess with a troubled past, begins a new job at a house plagued by scandal--but soon finds herself at the center of its darkest mystery.
GENRE Gothic Thriller Period Drama Psychological Horror
WHAT IT’S LIKE Downtown Abbey, Penny Dreadful, The Affair
DOWNLOAD PILOT Greg Cabrera Greg Cabrera is a Filipino-American writer from Southern California. He graduated from UCSD with a degree in Visual Arts Media. He honed his skills as a screenwriter attending Robert McKee’s famed Story Seminar as well as Jeff Gordon’s Writer’s Bootcamp, and was a semi-finalist in NBC’s Writers on the Verge Fellowship. Along with developing his TV and feature projects, Greg is currently building a presence in the digital space by writing and developing scripts and web series for digital platforms.
Email Phone [email protected] (626) 221-9886
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND UCSD B.A. Visual Arts Media
OddLot Entertainment Marquee Entertainment Development Assistant Producer’s Assistant
Truffle“Flounder” A former drug dealer breaks into the high-end food industry, working the lucrative, insular, and competitive career of a black market truffle dealer, in hopes of living a legitimate life and regaining custody of his daughter.
GENRE Drama Dark Comedy Action Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Chef’s Table, The Wire, How To Make It In America
DOWNLOAD PILOT Jaquen Castellanos Jaquen graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English and Political Science. After college she went on to work as an NBC Page. While in their rotational program she worked at Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and The Tonight Show. After completing the program she went on to be actor Robert De Niro’s personal assistant. Most recently, she has worked as the assistant to a showrunner and writer of Showtime’s The Affair.
Email Phone [email protected], (305) 804-2158
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Columbia University B.A. English, Political Science
The Affair, Showtime Tribeca Enterprises Assistant to Anya Epstein Assistant to Robert De Niro
NBC Universal East Coast Page Program SNL Desk Page
REM “Chapter One” An abducted young woman wakes from a four-year coma with the information necessary to topple the galaxy’s corrupt regime — she soon discovers that in her absence, she and her childhood friend have settled into wildly disparate political camps, pitting them against each other in the fight to establish a new empire.
GENRE Action & Adventure Sci-Fi Horror Action Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Battlestar Galactica, Orphan Black, Firefly
DOWNLOAD PILOT Christopher Durai Chris leads a small team of creative professionals at a successful organic coffee roasting company in Nashville, Tennessee. His diverse work experiences include commercial fishing for wild salmon in Alaska and driving an 18-wheeler across the United States. He is currently finishing work on his first independent feature film Brood XIX.
Email Phone [email protected] (615)330-4081
Solid State “M.H.CHAOS” A disenchanted CIA officer discovers that the stressors of work are shadowed by those of family life as he becomes increasingly engulfed in both agency and family scandal during the boiling social anxiety of Nixon’s 1970’s.
GENRE Historical Drama Family Drama War Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Mad Men, The Americans, The Wire
DOWNLOAD PILOT Chris Dymond Chris Dymond is a writer/director born and raised in Toronto. His feature film, In Return (eOne; 2012), received audience choice awards in the US and Canada. His screenplay Schooled was in consideration for The Black List’s Martin Katz Canadian Independent Screenwriting Fellowship in 2014. His original TV pilot Cinephile is a tribute to his love for both TV and Film.
Email Phone [email protected] (416) 827-0646
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND University of Toronto, Victoria College Hon. B.A. English Specialist
CREDITS In Return, Feature (Dist. eOne) Writer/Director
Cinephile An hour-long crime thriller about an LAPD detective that secretly battles early-onset Alzheimer’s as she hunts down a serial killer who recreates murders from iconic Hollywood films.
GENRE Crime Drama Crime Thriller Mystery & Suspense
WHAT IT’S LIKE True Detective, Castle, Hannibal
DOWNLOAD PILOT Alex Fletcher Alex Fletcher is a Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. She founded Lovestruck Literary, a boutique digital publishing company of YA/teen titles, which has released several books that have been downloaded over a million times each. Two of her pilots have been Second Rounders at the Austin Film Fest.
Email [email protected]
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Premedicated An ambitious medical school student embeds herself in the chaotic world of pharmaceutical advertising—risking her life and professional dreams— as she works as a corporate spy gathering evidence for a law firm specializing in class action suits.
GENRE Crime Drama Crime Thriller Spy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Homeland, Damages, Mad Men
DOWNLOAD PILOT Ed Gass-Donnelly Ed is an accomplished writer and director. His first two films, This Beautiful City and Small Town Murder Songs, both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and landed him on Variety’s coveted 10 Director’s To Watch list. His latest film, Lavender, stars Abbie Cornish, Dermot Mulroney, and Justin Long, and premieres at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. The Valley Dark is Ed’s first pilot.
Agency Agent ICM Doug MacLaren, Harley Copen, Howie Tanenbaum
Management Company Manager Untitled Jennifer Levine (310) 601-2100
CREDITS Lavender, The Last Exorcism Part II, Small Town Murder Songs, This Beautiful City
The Valley Dark “You Are The Light Of The World” Deep in the heart of Pennsylvania’s rural Mennonite community, where religious fervency and political corruption run deep, the apparent suicide of a troubled girl forces Jakob Rudin to return home after 15 years of exile only to find his once righteous family now entrenched in drug running and organized crime.
GENRE Thriller Crime Drama Family Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Breaking Bad, True Detective, Justified
DOWNLOAD PILOT Brian Golden Brian is a playwright, teacher and sometimes journalist interested in stories about the impact of politics on ‘ordinary people.’ His plays have been nominated for awards in Chicago and LA, and he served as Artistic Director of Theatre Seven for eight years, developing new plays about Chicago life. Brian’s teleplays have been honored by Acclaim TV and Screencraft Pilot Launch. He has taught active-duty US forces on four continents and reported news for both print and digital outlets.
Management Company Manager Myra Model Management Myra Model
Email Phone [email protected] (312) 806-6577
CREDITS Cooperstown (Play) We Live Here (Play) Jeff, Ovation & BTA Award Nominee Jeff Award Nominee
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Washington University Columbia College B.A. Drama Journalism
Theater Seven of Chicago Department of Defense Artistic Director, 2006-2014 Military Instructor
Quad-City Times, Rivals.com, The Scribbling Journalist
The Bang “Pilot” A female Iraq War vet, pushed to the brink by an underfunded VA and the demands of motherhood, copes with her crippling PTSD by seeking ‘the bang’ -- filling the void war left behind with the high of crime, danger and risking it all.
GENRE Crime Drama Fish-out-of-water Female Anti-hero Sociopolitical Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Breaking Bad, The Wire, Jessica Jones
DOWNLOAD PILOT RC Gray RC Gray received her MFA in English from the highly competitive Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, where she currently teaches as a Composition lecturer. She has a background in media production and operations management and, over the years, has worked as a PA and freelance editor for a myriad of independent projects, writers, and directors.
Email Phone [email protected] (310) 595-6858
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND UC Irvine University of Alabama M.F.A. English (Creative Writing) B.A. Telecommunication (Media Production)
Flatlands “Pilot” A group of dysfunctional business partners struggles to salvage their courier company and humanity in a set of dangerous, dystopian territories loosely patrolled by the US government... territories formerly known as the American Midwest.
GENRE Dystopia Drama Sci-Fi Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Firefly, Sons of Anarchy, Top of the Lake
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Seth Harrington & Matthew Feitshans Seth and Matt are writing partners and D&D gamers. Seth graduated from Rutgers with a degree in German Literature and has written/produced shows such as Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Emmy Nominated in 2010). Matthew is a graduate of the USC Cinema/TV School and has worked as an AD and a development executive. His first feature, Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer’s Curse, was released in 2015. They write TV dramas with grounded sci-fi/supernatural elements. Real people. Big canvass.
Management Manager Rain Management Group Garrett Greer (310) 954-9520
Email [email protected]
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Rutgers University (Seth) Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich (Seth) USC School of Cinematic Arts (Matthew)
CREDITS Project Runway Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Writer (Seth) Writer (Seth)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerers Curse Writer (Matthew)
Prisoners After an earthquake, the guests and staff at a luxury resort in Belize are taken prisoner by a tribe of 9th century Mayan Warriors. One astronomer will discover the truth behind their captors and rally her fellow prisoners to escape.
GENRE Drama Adventure Sci Fi Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Colony, Lost, Battlestar Galactica
DOWNLOAD PILOT Daniel Hogan Daniel is a scientist turned screenwriter from La Jolla, California. Originally graduating Summa Cum Laude from UCLA, Daniel later received his MFA in Film Writing from Loyola Marymount University, where he won the annual screenplay showcase for his feature, The Preserve. Most recently, Daniel developed an EDM-oriented crime drama for Intrigue Entertainment and worked as a Writers’ PA on the latest season of Family Guy.
Management Company Manager Lee Stobby Entertainment Lee Stobby
Email Phone [email protected] (858) 531-2759
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND UCLA Loyola Marymount University B.S. Environmental Science M.F.A. Screenwriting
Bad Wolf Ltd Family Guy Assistant to the Executive Producers Production Assistant
CREDITS Film Outside the Frame Festival Best Screenplay
Locals Only After a drug-related murder shakes the opulent and sheltered beach town of La Jolla, CA, rival teen surfers struggle with the limits of wild within their gritty surf culture.
GENRE Teen Drama Coming-of-Age Crime Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE The O.C., Skins, Friday Night Lights
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Bryce Hubner & Andrew Ladd After having optioned several drama and romantic comedy features, Andrew Ladd recently began writing for television. He joined forces with high school classmate and best friend, Bryce Hubner, a former journalist whose work has appeared around the world in outlets ranging from Men’s Journal to Mac|Life and ESPN Radio.
Email Phone [email protected] (310) 463-9142
Black & White When a brazen journalist with an embattled past chases a dubious lead, he finds himself immersed in a terror conspiracy — seeking the truth in a world governed by lies.
GENRE Action Thriller Political Drama Spy Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Mr. Robot, Homeland, House of Cards
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Kevin Scott Joiner, Jason McMahan & Adrian Vanderbosch Kevin and Jason’s writing partnership has spawned a rock opera, a web-series, the introductory novel for Sleepwalk, and other projects in various stages of development. Kevin, a professional musician, performs weekly and has songwriting placements across various media. As an actor, Jason has series credits with Nickelodeon and Disney. Adrian has served as writer/producer/director on multiple commercials, sketches, and short films. After writing a spec screenplay for the smash- hit video game/book franchise MYST in 2010, he became a rights-holding producer.
Email [email protected]
Sleepwalk “Pilot” In the summer of 1916, a mysterious and haunted physician arrives in an Appalachian backwater, searching for the expectant mother of a special child. Greeted with cold suspicion by the superstitious people of the valley, he finds himself caught amid an inferno of racial conflict, violent moonshiners, scores of inexplicably pregnant women, and dark forces that want the child for their own malevolent purposes. But the increasingly bizarre and disturbing episodes of “lost time” he experiences lead the doctor to doubt his own sanity and the reality of his mission. Though beset by terrors both supernatural and psychological, the doctor soon discovers the real evil he must face is all too human.
GENRE Drama Horror Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Penny Dreadful, Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders
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Michael Koehler & Ryan Patch Michael and Ryan met at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where they co-directed their thesis film in 2009. Since then, Michael has worked in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and Ryan has shot documentaries around the world. Currently, Michael runs Lights Film School, an online education platform, and Ryan leads Storytellers Ink, a full-service creative production company.
Management Manager Buffalo 8 Steven Adams [email protected] (310) 492-5575
Email Phone [email protected] (303) 506-1389
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND NYU Tisch School of the Arts Royal Holloway University of London B.F.A. Film & TV Production (Michael & Ryan) M.F.A Screenwriting (Ryan)
CREDITS The Sheol Express: Short Film The Offering: Short Film Writers/Directors (Michael & Ryan) Writer (Michael), Director (Ryan)
They Came At Night: Short Film The Sea In Between: Feature Documentary Writer (Michael) Writer/Editor/Producer (Ryan)
Lineage “Pilot” A young homeless woman discovers she’s one of the last surviving members of a royal family that once ruled an alternate, intertwined version of New York City. With civil war brewing and a quantum catastrophe on the horizon, she struggles to unite longtime leaders, upstart guerrillas, and embattled turncoats under the banner of a resistance she’s not sure she wants to lead.
GENRE Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones
DOWNLOAD PILOT Judith (J.C.) Lutz Judith started as a journalist in local TV news and as a magazine editor. Soon after, she sold a longform suspense drama to ABC. Two subsequent feature film dramas were sold and optioned, several times, by several production companies. Judith then developed a drama pilot with Tartikoff/ Ebersole Productions and has been hooked on one-hour TV ever since. Judith is a graduate of the Syracuse University School of Journalism and The American Film Institute.
Email Phone [email protected] (323) 854-8200
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Syracuse University American Film Institute School of Journalism Screenwriting
DROP HOUSE An idealistic woman’s seemingly perfect life is ripped apart when her husband unexpectedly dies and she discovers his downtown LA garment factory is part of a coyote smuggling route controlled by a cartel. To uncover the truth about her husband and protect her daughter, she becomes a player in a world she never knew existed.
GENRE Crime Drama Drama Family Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE The Bridge, Breaking Bad, Weeds
DOWNLOAD PILOT Tim Mannion Tim wants to live in a world full of truth. He expects that won’t happen. His stories tend to focus on those terms. He’s been produced once: Brake was released by IFC Films in 2012. He has extensive experience in multiple areas of production and post production, having worked at ESPN and MTV, and crewing on TV shows, including Arrested Development.
Email [email protected]
CREDITS Brake (IFC Films) Writer
The Nameless & Faceless “Jordan Rules” As riots rock the city of Detroit, a suspended cop is called back for one night only to track down a brutal gangster holding a detective hostage.
GENRE Crime Thriller Conspiracy Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Homeland, Training Day, Narc
DOWNLOAD PILOT Lindsay McRae Lindsay is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Journalism and Legal Studies, as well as a minor in Film. She interned as a PR assistant at Historic Royal Palaces in London, working closely on location with several television and film projects at the famous Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, and Kensington Palace. She received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and is currently working in IP law at a Boston firm.
Email Phone [email protected] (508) 208-1320
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suffolk University Law School B.A. Journalism and Legal Studies J.D. Certificate in Film Studies
Unity “The Unity” After being banished to indentured servitude in America by Oliver Cromwell in 1650, a Scottish military commander and his men must survive seven years of oppressive ownership, wary Puritans, and the perilous work conditions of the untamed land in order to secure their freedom.
GENRE Period Drama Action & Adventure Romantic Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Outlander, Deadwood, Hell on Wheels
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Jennifer Morris & Robbie Sublett Jennifer and Robbie are writers/actors and members of the acclaimed New York theatre company The Civilians whose work has been produced at BAM, Playwrights Horizons, and The Public Theatre. They were the inaugural company-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015. Their play You Better Sit Down had digital partnership with NPR/WNYC during its off-Broadway run. Jennifer co-produced the feature length documentary Mentor from Academy Award winning Wider Films. Robbie has appeared in numerous TV shows/films including The Good Wife and HBO’s Codes of Conduct.
Management Manager Liebman Entertainment Cory Richman [email protected] (212) 982-6666
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND UCSD NYU Tisch School of the Arts M.F.A. (Jenny) B.F.A (Robbie)
CREDITS Mentor, Doc Wider Films Tiffany, Doc Short PBS Producer Producer
The Art House An upstairs/downstairs drama set at the world’s premier auction house in New York City. Upstairs, we follow the rich and famous—art collectors, billionaires, wheelers and dealers. Downstairs we track the lives of the art handlers many of whom are aspiring artists. The series explores the intersection of class and race set against the backdrop of NY’s exploding contemporary art market
GENRE Drama Upstairs/Downstairs Drama Workplace Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE Mozart in the Jungle, Flesh and Bone, Mad Men
DOWNLOAD PILOT JS Morris JS Morris is a screenwriter and novelist. Two of his books What Lies Within and Melophobia have been published by Amazon’s imprint Kindle Press. He’s also taught “Developing the Short Film” at UCLA Extension. In his spare time, he enjoys paddleboarding.
Email Phone [email protected] (323) 935-5790
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School B.A. English Lit & TV/Radio/Film Production
CREDITS Smallville The Dead Zone Crossing Jordan The 4400
Pawn “Pawn” A brilliant but abusive ego-driven ex-Grand Champion Chess Master tries to create a chess legacy through his own school before his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s takes everything away from him.
GENRE Drama Family Drama Mystery & Suspense
WHAT IT’S LIKE Six Feet Under, Better Call Saul, Whiplash
DOWNLOAD PILOT Gabriel Olds Gabriel’s first passion-project script, The Blood of The Land, got him signed at William Morris when he was 17 years old. Olds then starred in Tony award-winning Broadway plays, won two Best Actor Awards, and has appeared in over 50 TV shows and films. After studying at Yale and NYU, Olds shot and edited his first feature film, Low Story, wrote articles (Salon/NPR), TV specs (Transparent, E-Ring, House MD), and three TV pilots. His Transparent spec recently placed in two contests, and his pilot, Kane, placed in four contests, and was ranked #1 on the Black List.
Email Phone [email protected] (323) 314-0986
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Yale University New York University B.A. Film
United States Senate Over 50 TV Shows and Films Research LC for Louisiana Sen. John Breaux On set experience
Black Dahlia Theater Script Doctor Founding Company Freelance
CREDITS Low Story The License Writer/Producer/Director/Actor Writer/Producer/Director/Actor
Kane “Mask” When small town mayor Tom can’t get erect and nearly loses his wife, he finds he can perform again if he secretly explores the hidden world of BDSM -- but Tom’s also in a tough re-election, and if his judgmental town discovers Tom’s secret, it’ll mean disastrous, gut-wrenching talks with his wife and children, and Tom will lose his family, his career, and maybe even his life.
GENRE Drama Dark Comedy Family Drama Dramatic Comedy
WHAT IT’S LIKE Big Love, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Breaking Bad
DOWNLOAD PILOT Jamie Parker Jamie is a television and feature film writer with an extensive background in designing and developing digital products for a variety of platforms including web, mobile, game consoles, and streaming video devices. Most recently he helped Showtime launch their new over-the-top subscription service and is currently leading the new products team at Viacom in New York City. Jamie has also written and produced two short films and is currently producing and co-writing an independent animated series.
Email Phone [email protected] (480) 381-3111
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Viacom Showtime Senior Director, New Products Product Manager, Showtime Anytime
The Television Academy Active Member (Interactive Peer Group)
Wrong Way Home Four hundred years after Earth was ripped apart by a catastrophic celestial event, a young woman searching for her way home must protect a mysterious child harboring a secret that could save what’s left of humanity, or destroy it.
GENRE Sci-Fi Adventure Drama
WHAT IT’S LIKE The 100, 12 Monkeys, Into the Badlands
DOWNLOAD PILOT Enio Rigolin Enio is a first generation American who spent his childhood between the shores of Chicago and the beaches of Brazil -- a cultural dichotomy that would shape his perspective and help define his voice. After graduating from New Trier High School, he earned a BFA from Syracuse University, where his 20 minute film Ravinia won best picture his senior year. Embracing his inherited wanderlust, Enio went on to study Renaissance art in Florence, music in Rio de Janeiro, and broadcast television in Sao Paulo, before settling in Los Angeles to write his first Black Listed feature screenplay, The 13th Man. Inspired by a new era of groundbreaking television, Enio has written his first TV pilot and show bible, an original one-hour serial drama titled Fiend.
Agency Agent Kaplan & Stahler Agency Shan Ray [email protected] (323) 202-1295
Management Manager Heroes & Villains Entertainment Markus Goerg & Mikhail Nayfeld [email protected] [email protected] (323) 850-2990,
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Syracuse University B.F.A. Film Drama
Fiend “Hunting Monsters” A young protege of Sigmund Freud returns to class-divided Boston, where he delves into the city’s darkest slums to hunt down America’s first serial killer, the Boston Fiend.
GENRE Historical Drama Crime-Thriller Serial Romance
WHAT IT’S LIKE Dexter, Downton Abbey, The Knick
DOWNLOAD PILOT Michael Schatz Michael graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. His early days in Los Angeles were spent working production at a television network. Michael’s scripts were semi-finalists in the 2011 LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival and a finalist at the 2013 Beverly Hills Film Festival. His current pilot, Five Stars, was named a semi-finalist at the 2015-16 Table Read My Screenplay Contest (Park City).
Management Manager Bellevue Productions Jeff Portnoy (818) 207-8172
Email Phone [email protected] (323) 807-3290
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Mississippi State University Broadcast Journalism
Five Stars “Snap” The trials and tribulations of Prince Harper, a much hyped high school basketball star, whose journey to a better life is threatened by the greed of others, mounting pressures and his own troubled past.
GENRE Drama Family Drama Sports Drama.
WHAT IT’S LIKE Friday Night Lights. Empire. Survivor’s Remorse.
DOWNLOAD PILOT Claire Weaver Claire is a British-American screenwriter, comic book writer, and journalist. Despite being a hardcore fan of horror and sci-fi, she was a writer on the children’s animated series Eddie is a Yeti. In 2014, she was featured on the Tracking Board’s Young & Hungry List of “100 Writers on the Verge”. She has several TV pilots and a feature in development, and she also co-hosts a comedy/talk podcast about writing, the film industry, and life in Los Angeles.
Agency Agent Paradigm Martin Spencer
Management Manager Grandview Merideth Bajana
Email Phone [email protected] (323) 717-9043
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Chapman University
Black Hills In 1832, a remote trading post on the very edge of the American Frontier is besieged by a dark supernatural power. While the occupants struggle to identify a murderer in their midst, old secrets and lies come to the surface and a discovery is made that will affect every man and woman in the Black Hills.
GENRE Supernatural Horror Western Crime Thriller
WHAT IT’S LIKE Penny Dreadful, Salem, Twin Peaks
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