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< Back Brad M. Johnson bmj@diydprods.com IMDB Brad is a Pacific Northwest-based writer-producer-director who returned from a 15-year detour into the world of corporate marketing to focus on a more personal form of storytelling. His work has been recognized by Final Draft, The Black List, the Walt Disney Company, and MGM among others. In 2022, Brad launched The Grey List, an initiative to push back against ageism in the entertainment industry by curating a selection of production-ready feature and pilot scripts from writers over the age of 40. Brad is also a filmmaker through his company, Daisy If You Do Productions. His directorial debut, CHAT, won the Audience Favorite award at the Poulsbo Film Festival (2023), and his most recent production, SENSE OF EMERGENCY, debuted at the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival. He will be directing his next film, DEEP FAKE, in 2026. Brad is currently looking for the right representation and is open to OWA’s. When he isn’t working on his next script or film, Brad spends his time watching curling (hoping to one day join a team) and making bad puns that make his family’s eyes roll. non-WGA Male, 40+ WELCOME TO LAZARUS Feature | Crime-Drama Desperate for a new start, a corrupt cop in a dying Midwestern town accepts a job to kill a mob informant, but his world unravels when his target turns out to be the father who abandoned him as a child. BLOOD MOON Feature | Western-Horror As the sun sets on the American Old West, a young priest and a grizzled bounty hunter must work together to save a small frontier town under siege by vampires HOLY HELL Feature | Action A former government assassin who walked away from his old life and is atoning for his violent past as a small-town priest sets aside his collar and picks back up his guns when the organization he worked for discovers his whereabouts and comes looking for vengeance. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Horror, Dark Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Lisa Gold lisasmgold@gmail.com http://www.lisamgold.com Coverfly Writer/director Lisa Gold grew up all over North America, leaving her confused and also Canadian. Dual citizen Lisa now lives in Long Beach, which looks out at oil derricks disguised as palm trees. Perfect for Lisa, who loves dressing up painful truths in unique genre material. Lisa wrote and/or directed eight award-winning short films which played in 100 festivals. Her screenplays won a 2024 PAGE Bronze Prize, CineStory Screenwriting Award and the Nashville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize; other scripts reached the Finals of the Nicholl Fellowships, PAGE Awards and Script Pipeline TV Competition. She twice reached the Austin Semi-Finals with a feature and a TV pilot. Lisa is currently completing a YA sci-fi novel based on her script, while also working on a couple of alarmingly timely TV and feature scripts. With a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from UCLA, Lisa recently worked way her downward, receiving an A.A. in cinema production from Los Angeles City College. A graduate of Second City Conservatory, Lisa performed improv comedy at crappy coffeehouses all over LA. Honors & Awards Winner, Bronze Prize, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA, 2024 Finalist, The Writers Lab Canada - CANADA RESISTS - 2024 Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - FOREGLOW - 2021 non-WGA Female, disabled, Over 40 CANADA RESISTS (TV action-thriller pilot - a reverse THE AMERICANS meets Norwegian thriller series OCCUPIED , with more satire/female empowerment like DIPLOMAT ) Following a far-right wing U.S. government takeover of Canada, a Toronto hockey mom becomes the unlikely leader of the secret Canadian resistance…pitting her against her CIA husband. THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA (family action-adventure feature - a kid-centric RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK meets the fun of HARRY POTTER .) Following clues left by his late mother, BRANDON, 11, tricks his emotionally distant father into taking them on a perilous but healing journey to the mythical paradise of Shangri-La. TRIPPIN’ (YA sci-fi time travel pilot - DEAD TO ME meets CRUEL SUMMER) After her little sister is killed, snarky artist Lexy, 16, loses her voice. Along with brother Kyle, 17, she travels back to the past to save their sister, but instead ends up creating alternate realities, upending her family and her high school’s social order. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Snarky Female, disabled, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Catherine Vouvray cathvouvray@gmail.com http://commelevin.com Coverfly Catherine Vouvray grew up gay in God’s country – the bible belt South – fearing for her life at home with mentally ill parents and out in the rural world, where those in the LGBTQIA+ community were killed for sport. Education saved her life, but writing saved her soul. Her work is focused on empathy, relationships, mental health, and finding the funny in dark times. A published short story writer and produced writer/director, Vouvray’s mission is to add to queer cinema while often placing older (gasp!) women at the epicenter of stories ranging from comedy to drama, to rom-com, to family, and finally, to animation. Oh, and yes, she also writes straight stuff for the youth. Vouvray is in post-production on her first independent feature film, All Wounds , which apparently needs a new title because it isn't a horror. Her influences include Waller-Bridges, Sciamma, Gaudagnino, and Manuel-Miranda. When not indulging in filmmaking, Vouvray writes novels, including The Months of Payne. Catherine is currently a proud fellow of the Michener Center for Writers. Honors & Awards Universal Global Talent Development & Inclusion - Semifinalist - LES GO! - 2021 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ LES GO! Lesbian rom-com After using a lesbian-dating app to research a new role and accidentally meeting Ms. Right, a lonely, middle-aged movie star must redefine what love and career mean to her before she loses both. AUTHOR OF THE EPILOGUE romantic dramedy An elderly woman journeys home to England with her husband's ghost to reconnect with the love she left behind--a woman--before her son puts her in a nursing home. CODENAME: MAME 1/2 hour TV spy comedy An insular, sexy, sixty-year-old spy forced into retirement secretly continues targeting an international crime syndicate who then comes after her and her first-ever friends in the retirement community where she's gone undercover. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, International Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Ann LeSchander Ann.LeSchander@gmail.com IMDB Originally from upstate NY, Ann started as a touring singer in musicals before moving to Los Angeles to record film soundtracks, sparking her passion for storytelling and a pivot to filmmaking. Ann’s historical feature, FREIDEL, won Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Competition. As a Creative Director for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ann has written and directed commercials, trailers, and promos for Sony content including Cinevault, Murder & Mayhem, Sony Movie Channel, Game Show Network, and more. She is the winner of a Promax Gold Award for her “Hellevator Interruptus” campaign with Blumhouse Entertainment. Ann wrote and directed the indie feature THE PARK BENCH, which won “Best Feature” awards in NY, Toronto, Chicago, and Argentina. It is available on multiple streamers and a popular pick in libraries across the US. (The daughter of a librarian, this makes Ann very happy.) Ann holds a BA in English from Colgate University, and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts. Honors & Awards Winner - Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition - FREIDEL - 2024 Top Ten Final Draft ""Big Break"" (& selected for The Writer's Lab) - PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ MASTERPIECE Episodic TV Pilot Castle , White Collar After a reckless mistake, a rugged LA Homicide Detective is ""transferred"" to Art Theft thrusting him into LA's billion-dollar art scene. Paired with a snobby art scholar, he tracks crimes through the city while while trying to solve the one murder case that has eluded him." FREIDEL Feature - Historical Action/Adventure Arctic , The Nightingale After her family is murdered in a pogrom, a young Jewish woman embarks on a perilous journey through the Russian wilderness to escape across the border and receives help from an unlikely ally, a young Russian soldier shot for disobeying orders. PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS Feature - Comedy Get Him to the Greek , Topsy Turvy An aspiring singer is thrilled to drive famed opera star Porter Douglas to his sold-out concert in upstate New York, until the carousing tenor goes AWOL and she must enlist a former marine to help find him before he ruins her fledgling career. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Romantic, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Phoenix Black phoenixblackthewriter@gmail.com https://phoenixblackthewriter.com/ The Black List Phoenix is a Black List recommended screenwriter on Network ISA's 'Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch' list. She is a Sri Lankan Australian foster parent and former UN aid worker, based in Sydney. Phoenix is the daughter of Australia’s first immigrants of color. She grew up waitressing in her parents’ restaurant and globetrotting in the family Kombi van. Being the only child of color many people had ever seen, informs her stories of personal chaos and adventure, identity and loss. She writes stories intended to be repeatedly dissected by audiences with characters that linger. Phoenix’s style is influenced by her mother’s weaving stories, told over cups of tea, creating emotional postcards. Phoenix’s career spans being an HIV/AIDS physical therapist, designing health education programs and public policy to emergency operations with UNICEF and Oxfam in disasters and war zones. She is now embarking on her writer/director journey. Honors & Awards Final Draft Big Break - Top 5 Finalist, - KEANU REEVES IS MY MUSE, MY SON IS A DRAGON - 2022 Roadmap Writers Diversity Initiative - Runner-up - FATHER TRINITY - 2022 The Stunt List - Best Sports-Centered Scripts - FIRE KINGS 2025 " non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Disabled, 55+ FIRE KINGS - Action crime drama feature POINT BREAK meets THE BIKERIDERS When two police officers - one a war veteran, the other the son of war refugees - infiltrate rival motorcycle gangs, the secret to breaking their case lies hidden in their own war-torn pasts. FATHER TRINITY Drama psychological horror feature MAGNOLIA meets MULHOLLAND DRIVE On the set of a martial arts horror TV show, three lives spiral: A stuntman's tween son sabotages his father's affair, A sex addicted star falls in love and A grieving stagehand finally faces his demons. An exploration of masculinity, guilt, and obsession. KEANU REEVES IS MY MUSE, MY SON IS A DRAGON Family fantasy dramedy BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA meets HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON When a chaotic, grieving writer fosters a boy convinced he’s a dragon, the two must navigate loss, imagination, and identity to forge an unexpected family - with Keanu Reeves. Based on a true story. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, International, Magical Realism Female, BIPOC, Asian, Disabled, 55+ unrepped

< Back Rudi O'Meara rudi@rudiwithaneye.com https://www.rudiwithaneye.com The Black List Rudi O’Meara is a Black List Recommended action/adventure screenwriter based in Marin County, California. He got his start in the industry working as a junior development exec for Oscar-winning indie producer David Weisman. In his 20s, he pivoted careers and worked as an award-winning Creative Director for some of the world’s best brands. But after three back-to-back near-death experiences (blood clot, ski crash, blood clot) nearly took him out, he decided to finally listen to that voice in his head that kept asking why he wasn’t writing. Since then, he’s won or made the finals of numerous screenwriting competitions including: Roadmap Writers, ScriptPipeline, Page, Big Break, ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, ISA, WritersXWrtiers, Filmmatic, and Outstanding Screenplays. His work tends to focus on misfits and outsiders struggling to face their mortality, fight their fears, and redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And he sees genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways. Honors & Awards WritersXWriters Screenplay Competition - Winner - THE ESCAPIST - 2024 Filmmatic Pitch Now Competition - Winner - AMENDS - 2023 Script Pipeline Pitch Competition - Runner-Up - REJUVENATION - 2023" non-WGA Male, 55+ THE ESCAPIST WWII Drama Feature ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT meets THE ARTIST In a bid to survive WWII without firing a shot, a naive young jazz-obsessed musician joins the Musikkorps Leibstandarte-SS (Hitler’s elite personal orchestra) and soon finds himself thrust into some of the fiercest fighting of the war." THE 10th WWII Action Feature SAVING PRIVATE RYAN meets MERU Two headstrong mountaineers (one American, one Austrian) find themselves playing an unexpectedly pivotal role in the first high-stakes WWII mission of the US 10th Mountain Division—America’s first alpine infantry unit. REJUVENATION Horror/Thriller Feature STEPFORD WIVES meets EX MACHINA After discovering her husband is cheating on her, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, both women find themselves being hunted down by their younger, hotter, optimized selves." Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Limited Series, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped

< Back Saiya Floyd saiya.floyd@gmail.com https://saiyafloyd.com Saiya Floyd is a Japanese-American screenwriter. As a kid, she was too shy to talk to people, so she made up stories in her head. She had so much fun that she decided to make this her career and went to study at Boston University. She graduated with a degree in Film and Television with a focus on screenwriting. (She learned to how to talk to people somewhere along the way). In her work, Saiya explores new perspectives in historical, fantasy, and sci-fi stories. Her scripts are dramas, and often female-led. Through heightened worlds, she uncovers traits that make us the most human. She has been a finalist at the Austin Film Festival, a winner at WeScreenplay, and placed in the Launch Pad Top 50. Her short play Five Star First Date was part of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s NuWorks Festival. When not writing, Saiya practices martial arts, cooks, and dreams of traveling to new places. She is interested in history, folklore, and mythology. non-WGA Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic THE DEVIL'S BROOD (Historical pilot - VIKINGS meets THE WHITE QUEEN) The ambitious daughter of Henry I must navigate court politics, fight sexist nobles, and defy her own family in order to secure her rightful position as England’s first Queen. A THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES (Historical Action Pilot – LEVERAGE meets WARRIOR) San Francisco, 1925: A headstrong Japanese woman runs afoul of politicians, captains of industry, and gangsters in her quest to pay her father bloody retribution for betraying and abandoning her mother decades earlier. Anthology series inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly . THE TRIDENT EXTRACTION (Sci-fi Feature – ROGUE ONE meets OCEAN'S 11) After her mission to rescue two scientists and their water producing machine goes horribly wrong, a war-weary colonel teams up with the scientists’ grieving daughter to assemble a band of rebels, steal the machine back from an oppressive regime, and save their parched planet. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

< Back Steve Holbert Steveisholbert@gmail.com Coverfly Steve comes from a long line of carneys and sex workers. He grew up in the trailer parks of Georgia’s poorest town. He paid the bills by selling food stamps and tombstones. After becoming a first-generation college student, he paid the bills hosting drag shows and doing wedding makeup. Steve moved back to the trailer park when his dad became terminally ill. He was his caregiver until his father died. Then, the state dropped two kids on his porch, and he became a foster parent to his teenage and four-year-old cousins. Now, he is a thirty-year-old grandpa. Growing up, the media always portrayed Appalachian Americans as victims, so Steve makes sure the next generation sees themselves as heroes. Then, life can finally imitate art. He writes hour TV and features that explore bi-ness, using queer teens, horror, and the South. He's had generals with Glen Mazzara, Berlanti Productions, Paramount, and others, and was a writer’s assistant for Heidi Schreck, Evette Vargas, Katie Tabaldi, and AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS. When not writing, Steve is an amateur ghost hunter. He volunteers at nursing homes, so has attended over 300 funerals. He was a classical pianist for ten years. If Pokémon were real, he'd be an ice-type gym leader. MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch School Of The Arts. non-WGA Male, LGBTQ+ EM & TOBY VS. THE GULCHES (Feature - WRONG TURN meets SHAMELESS) In this horror remix of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz , a waitress saves her runaway brother from a family of killers and learns the meaning of “home.” SLAY (Hour Drama - MEAN GIRLS meets THE LOST BOYS) A trailer park virgin sneaks off to his first Pride seeking community. But he finds a herd of killer unicorns. SCRAPS (Hour Drama - SWEENEY TODD meets SHAMELESS) A broke foster parent is losing his family’s barbecue shack – until he finds a killer, free meat supply. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, YA, Dark Male, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Matt Rollins mattrollins13@yahoo.com Born and raised in the Washington DC area, Matthew decided to go after his dream of becoming a professional storyteller. He packed up what he could carry in his little car and set forth towards the Mecca of entertainment, Southern California. Matthew takes with him a lifetime of experience in Medical, as a professional and a patient, Governmental processes and a rich imagination of a world that could be. non-WGA Male, Disabled, 55+ THE ADVENTURES OF GG Coming of Age, Thriller When GG started at her new school, her new found friend was kicked out for nefarious reasons. GG, along with other classmates, go after the corrupt principal to take her entire operation down." Medical, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age Male, Disabled, 55+ unrepped

< Back Cynthia Crofoot Cynthia.crofoot@gmail.com 416.826.0608 http://www.cynthiacrofoot.com IMDB Profile Cynthia’s female-driven drama and genre screenplays combine robust story arcs with well-defined characters in complex, nuanced worlds where moral and ethical tenets are challenged. Her completed screenplays have consistently received positive recognition from industry peers and professionals and to date has penned over 20 screenplays, with several of those in the hands of producers, managers and directors in Los Angeles and Toronto. Her produced films have been well received on the festival circuit, garnering national and international praise for her talents. With over 25 years in the industry, Cynthia continues to excel in her creative pursuits and currently has several projects in various stages of development. She is a dual Canadian/American citizen. Honors and Awards Big Apple Screenplay Competition , Semi-Finalist - BRACEWATER - 2020 Hamilton Screenplay Competition , Top Ten Finalist BRACEWATER - 2021 Hollywood Just 4 Shorts , Winner- SAVIOR - 2021 Toronto Independent FF , Winner - SAVIOR - 2021 Global Shorts , Top 10 Finalist - SAVIOR - 2021 non-WGA Female, 55+ ONE DATE... Romantic Dramedy A widowed mother and her single daughter find new love with the help of friends and on-line dating platforms, but their happiness is jeopardized when they discover the troublesome past that links the new men in their lives. PAUSE Horror/Thriller A menopausal FBI agent hunting a group of vicious women who maintain their youth through cannibalistic rituals, must embrace the strength and beauty of her older self in order to defeat the murderous sect. BRACEWATER Cop Thriller/Drama A highly decorated small town detective is put on leave after her sister commits suicide, but when a close family friend disappears, she convinces her captain to reinstate her, unaware that the DA involved is withholding pertinent information about a murderous criminal they believe is responsible for the kidnapping. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Horror Female, 55+ unrepped

< Back Tracy Held tracyheldconsulting@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6326686/ Tracy Held (she/they) is an award-winning, multi-racial Chinese/Eastern European American writer for stage and screen. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Tracy has a background in nonprofit fundraising and conservation science. She is a do-gooder with a heart of puns who writes like Rachel Bloom on PBS. Tracy uses her writing to defeat pessimism and to inspire collaboration and connection. Winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, she is a co-founder of Erosion films, founder of All Terrain Theater, and served as a former Executive Director of the nonprofit Play Cafe. She is the Vice-Chair of the Writers Guild of America West Asian American Writers Committee. Tracy has a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC, Berkeley and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Multi-Ethnic SCIENCE FAIR (Coming of Age Musical Feature) All Katie wants to do is save the world, and she has a step-by-step plan to do it, but first she needs to win her high school science fair which means accepting the hard-to-believe truth that she may not always be right. NATURE ORGANIZATION (Comedy, Pilot) Theresa Chin's first act as the new Executive Director of the struggling nonprofit Friends of the Local Parks is to eliminate the office hierarchy, but the human and animal staff fall apart without their beloved structure, and the newly-hired horse just wants to stop being stuck in the door. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Science, Coming-of-Age, YA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

< Back Matija Šraj matijasraj@gmail.com Coverfly Matija Šraj is an Australian/Slovenian screenwriter from Melbourne, Australia. With a lifelong obsession for storytelling, Matija has had a circuitous pathway to screenwriting – from working in an Aboriginal school in the outback, to working as a refugee and conservatorship lawyer, to working as a fitness instructor. Immediately prior to screenwriting, Matija worked for the Australian Greens political party, including as an adviser to senators and a lead adviser during Australia’s marriage equality campaign. As an LGBTQIA+ person and the child of an immigrant, Matija writes mostly queer multicultural stories. Matija works in the Australian screen industry as a production assistant and writers’ assistant, including on Amazon's global hit, DEADLOCH. Honors & Awards CineStory Foundation TV Competition - Fellowship Winner QUEENMAKER - 2024 CineStory Foundation Feature Competition - Semifinalist/scholarship winner - THE RIP - 2023 Page International Screenwriting Awards - Honorable Mention QUEENMAKER - 2025 non-WGA Non-binary, Multi-Ethnic, LGBTQ+ ANONYMOUS Action thriller - THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets RED SPARROW After being double-crossed in a black ops mission gone wrong in Europe, a queer American spy must uncover an international conspiracy to clear his name and save the anonymous hookup who’s inadvertently caught in the crossfire. QUEENMAKER Comedy - VEEP meets RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE After a cash-strapped, publicity-seeking drag queen who impulsively decides to run for Australian parliament is unexpectedly elected, he has to overcome childhood trauma, inept housemates-turned-staffers and constant battles with the Prime Minister to try and change politics for the better. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Dark, Snarky Non-binary, Multi-Ethnic, LGBTQ+ unrepped