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< Back Sheila Rinear Marta Praeger at Robert A. Freeman Dramatic Agency mprfda@gmail.com http://www.sheilarinear.com LinkedIn Sheila Rinear is a playwright, screenwriter, teacher, mom, end-hunger advocate, women-in-theater activist, clothe-the-migrants worker, and beach-walking devotee. She's received grants, commissions, and awards for her work resulting in development, productions, publication, and readings nationally. She turned her attention to screenplays during the pandemic and has placed in many competitions and has had four projects on the now-defunct Coverfly Red List. Honors & Awards Finalist in ISA & Script Pipeline's The Great Pitch Competition for Feature , We Ourselves, 2026 Finalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest and on the Red List from 2020 to 2025 , Bound By Truth Semifinalist, Stage 32 Feature Drama , 2025 WE OURSELVES Historical Drama Feature During the 1916 Easter Rising, a naïve but fearless Irish farm girl accepts help from the rising Sinn Féin rebels to rescue her wrongfully imprisoned lover, framed by a treacherous British gun-runner desperate to bury his own crimes. Inspired by true events. SONS OF TREASON Historical Drama Feature In 1347 England, a desperate young King Edward III hunts a stolen treasury to save his failing realm...until he learns the treasure is not gold but a hidden half-brother raised, by the mother they share, to kill him. BUFFLEHEAD BAY Contemporary Dark-Comedy Stage Play After a superstorm destroys her hometown and kills her alcoholic father, a determined woman must overcome deep-seated family trauma and bureaucratic red tape to spearhead the community's restoration, discovering that the home she once fled is the only place she can rebuild herself.

< Back Julia Bergeron julia.bergeron@gmail.com http://www.juliabergeron.com Julia is an LA-based multi-hyphenate creative and storyteller. She gravitates to stories about underestimated heroes and the question: What would you do for family? As a mom to both a biological and adopted child, she defines “family” as traditional, adoptive, step, and found. Her feature screenplay Austen Time has an A-list star attached and Phil Traill (Chalet Girl, Modern Family, The Last Man on Earth) is set to direct. Her WW2 female-led drama Across Enemy Lines is currently being shopped by producer-director Natalie Simpkins (Father’s Day Breakfast with Troy Kotsur, The Token Groomsman with Andie MacDowell, Sarah Hyland, Taylor Lautner) and Pavel Edelman (The Pianist, Oliver Twist, Lee) set to DP. Meanwhile her horror feature Murder Van (starring Rachel Alig and Chad Ridgely) is in post-production. Her screenplays have earned repeated top placements at the Writers Lab, Austin Film Festival, Humanitas New Voices Fellowship, Stowe Story Lab and others. In music, she’s created 3D video story projections for artists including Rihanna, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Eminem, Pharrell Williams, Lana Del Rey, and Blue Man Group. In branding, she’s led campaigns for Tiffany, Cirque du Soleil, Ritz-Carlton, Porsche, and more. Honors & Awards Finalist, Historical Film, Page Awards, ACROSS ENEMY LINES , 2025 Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Programs and Fellowships Application Tangerine Entertainment - AUSTEN TIME - 2023 Runner-up, Script Pipeline - First Look Project - CHARLOTTE D'ARTAGNA - 2023 AUSTEN TIME Feature, Rom-Com - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE meets BACK TO THE FUTURE When Jane Austen is transported to the present-day, she dives into modern life, even falling in love. But when her books begin to vanish, she must somehow return to her time to prevent her legacy, and that of all the women writers she influenced, from disappearing forever. ACROSS ENEMY LINES Feature - WW2 Female-led drama - BEHIND ENEMY LINES with women In winter 1943, a closed-off WWII nurse and her team are shot down over Nazi-occupied Albania. To complete a mission that could save thousands, they must escape across the treacherous Accursed Mountains with the uneasy help of a rebel leader hiding his own agenda. CHARLOTTE D’ARTAGNA Action Comedy - THE THREE MUSKETEERS + BACK TO THE FUTURE High school loner and fencing champ, Charlotte D’Artagna, and two other teens are flung back in time to 1625 Paris, where life sucks big time. To get home, they must band together to save the Queen and prevent a war. It’s all for one and one for all – without wifi.

< Back Amaris J. Gagnon AmarisG@msn.com LinkedIn Amaris Gagnon is a New England native and the bi-racial daughter of a Trinidadian immigrant and French father. Amaris left her home state of Massachusetts and moved to Los Angeles to study theater at Loyola Marymount University. Amaris is a playwright, one-hour drama, and features writer, specializing in Horror and Science Fiction. She loves to write about dysfunctional families, small towns with secrets, and the internal and external monsters that live inside and around us. In her free time, she prides herself on being a ghost hunter and travels the country to see the most haunted places in America. Amaris was recently a 2025 Finalist for the Disney Writers Program and had her full-length stage play produced in Chicago this year. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon. WHAT HAPPENED IN MARIPOSA Feature - Horror/Thriller After their mother is found dead, two estranged siblings travel to Mariposa, California, where they find out she was involved in an alien cult called "The Six." Members start dying and they must find the answers to the questions their mother left behind. ALLIGATOR BLOOD Pilot - Drama/Thriller After dishonestly winning fifty million dollars in a lottery, a woman must protect her family when figures known as "The Collectors" target them. THOUGH I MUST GO Feature - Drama/Science Fiction In a future where every man and woman must legally be married by the age of forty, or join a one-way space Expedition, 39-year-old Rachel must decide whether to marry her boyfriend or rediscover her purpose among the stars.

< Back Edward G. Excaliber edwardexcaliber@yahoo.com LinkedIn The Black List Edward G. Excaliber is a Los Angeles-based, Miami-born Puerto Rican writer, a sci-fi/fantasy videogaming nerd who blends his darkly comedic, self-deprecating voice with emotionally sincere characters, focusing on grounded, personal stories in elevated genre worlds. The youngest of three, his passion for writing began at an early age, writing comic books, poems and lyrics, shifting to narrative storytelling in college, where he wrote and directed numerous stage plays. He transitioned to writing for film and television while attending the AFI Conservatory, earning an MFA in Screenwriting. Edward is an alum of the NBC Writers on the Verge and National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) writing programs. In 2024, Edward won the Hollywood Fringe Festival Theatre Theater Playwright Award. In 2026, he was selected for a reading at the Coconut Grove Theatre Festival in Miami. He’s written episodes of Parcast’s lost treasure podcast series, Gone. He’s worked as a story analyst for Sony Pictures, Amblin Partners, Focus Features, Austin Film Festival and Coverfly. Edward has twice been selected for the Read Latinx Initiative. Currently, Edward’s learning to play guitar, practicing amateur archery and developing new projects. Honors & Awards Winner - Theatre Theater Playwright Award, Hollywood Fringe Festival - 2024 Fellow - NBC Writers on the Verge - 2018-19 Fellow - NHMC Writing Program - 2017 GEMINI One-hour Sci-Fi Action/Adventure pilot - Dr. Who/Hitchhiker's Guide ... When her MIT-genius twin-turned-mailman is found dead, a gamer girl discovers his secreted mail truck, which morphs into a spaceship, leading her on an interstellar mission to rescue him, led by the galaxy’s foremost espionage program: The United States Postal Service. HOUND Historical Comedy feature - The Death of Stalin/Jojo Rabbit (tone) 14th Century Paris. Seeking revenge for the murder of his guardian, a hound repeatedly attacks the alleged culprit, prompting the king to decree an unlikely duel between man and dog. Based on a true story… if you believe the legend. SPELLBOUND Half-hour Supernatural Comedy pilot - Baskets A down-on-his-luck street magician who’s actually a real wizard spends his days trying to stay powerful enough to pay the rent. But when his estranged daughter shows up, more powerful than any other wizard he’s ever met, he sees a path to reclaiming his identity.

< Back Philippe Bowgen philippe.bowgen@gmail.com Tigran Babadjanian at Principal Entertainment LA http://www.philippebowgen.com PHILIPPE BOWGEN is a queer, Latinx writer and comedian who brings a bold, irreverent voice to stories exploring culture clash, family dynamics, and drawing outside society’s lines. Pulling from his multi-racial, multi-national, and multi-lingual background, Philippe’s work is deeply informed by his lived experiences. Most recently, Philippe finished co-writing the first season of THE SETUP, a scripted narrative romantic comedy podcast produced by SONORO Global Media, set to debut on iHeartRadio on Valentine’s Day 2025. It stars Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) and Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why) as part of Wilmer Valderrama’s My Cultura Network. Philippe has been recognized as a 2022 Willamette Writers Lab Fellow, a 2023 #ReadLatinxWriters mentee, a 2024 Pre-Rainbow Pages mentee, and a 2025 Mentorship Matters Fellow – mentored by Hilly Hicks, Jr (The Big C, Jessica Jones). He was also one of the Nickelodeon Writing Program’s top five finalists for 2025. Over the last five years, his scripts have placed or been recognized by the AFF, Sundance, Nashville Film Festival, WeScreenplay, Humanitas, Outfest, and myriad other competitions. MFA Brown; BSFS Georgetown Honors & Awards Mentorship Matters Fellow - KETALUMA - 2025 PreRainbow Pages Fellow - BROWN AND OUT - 2024 #ReadLatinxWriters Mentee - BROWN AND OUT - 2023 KETALUMA Half Hour Comedy - WILFRED meets OZARK When a failed novelist returns home to his estranged cat-loving parents, he embroils them in a ketamine drug ring on the cat show circuit and races to pay back a vicious kingpin, redeem his dignity, and save his family’s lives - all while vying to win the Cat Fancy Association’s National Championship. BROWN AND OUT Half Hour Comedy - ENTOURAGE meets VIDA When he’s exposed wearing brown-face while promoting his new movie, a white-passing Latin heartthrob agrees to re-learn how to be Latino in the public eye to win back his ex, save his career, and reclaim his heritage THE FAMILY SWINE One Hour Drama - SIX FEET UNDER meets WHITE LOTUS When a grieving mother and son travel to sultry Barcelona in search of their second acts, they discover a corpse and pose as the dead man’s family to run his butcher shop with dangerous criminal ties.

< Back Victoria Renee Manager: Jermaine Johnson of Zero Gravity Management http://www.VictoriaRenee.net Victoria Renee is a writer, director, and producer. She is a Georgia native from College Park and Southwest Atlanta, GA. She is also a George Lucas Scholar and 2021 Master of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Southern California (USC)'s School of Cinematic Arts (SCA). Prior to becoming a filmmaker, she was an award-winning researcher, who earned her Master of Arts from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Science from Barry University, both concentrated in clinical and forensic psychology. She often code-switched on and off parts of her authentic self. It sucked. Thankfully, her code-switch broke when she embraced her artistry. Likewise, Victoria writes about characters who navigate different worlds and wrestle with self-acceptance. She pens dramas and dramedies about people within the African Diaspora living ordinary to extraordinary experiences. She aims for underrepresented people to feel seen and empowered by her work. BY THE CODE (Hourlong Drama) Amirah avoided the family drug business and focused on software coding instead. But as she enters her freshman year at Columbia University, she reluctantly assumes control of the empire that killed her uncle in order to prevent a Bronx war. HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE (Coming-of-Age Black Family Dramedy) After her best friend passes away, psychologist and fun "Auntie," Candice, is now responsible for her godchildren, Diamond (14) and Onyx (11). Candice must help them heal as they all act out in highly inappropriate sexual ways. PURITY (Drama/Sci-Fi Feature) Iyanna strives to become a scientist as the Crispr corporation where she works expands into designer DNA. After conceding to her best friend's desire to join a trial for a treatment that replaces one's appearance with more eurocentric features, Iyanna must find a cure to save her and millions of others.

< Back Lisa Jeanne Rosenberg thewholestory@comcast.net Lisa Rosenberg is an AFI Screenwriting graduate and a narrative screenwriter focused on dramas, coming-of-age, and political thrillers. CURE, a thriller, was a Semifinalist for the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Writers’ Lab and Second Round in the 2022, 2021, and 2020 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions. A PLACE CALLED HOME, a political drama, was a 2024 Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition and previously an Independent Film Week selection. GRAFT, a period coming-of-age, won a 2023 Puffin Foundation grant for development as a stage play and was Second Round in the 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. CRAWL SPACE, a psychological drama adapted from the novel by Edie Meidav, was a 2015 Finalist for the New York Women in Film & Television Writers' Lab. Recent contracts include script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing CLIPPED WINGS (working title), a dramatic feature for Front Row Productions; co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions; and writing A PRAYER, a script for a short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher. Earlier projects she has written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, and a nomination for a Peabody Award. Honors & Awards Bold Voice Award and Semifinalist, NYWIFT Writers’ Lab – CURE – 2025 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition – GRAFT – 2025 Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – CURE – 2025 CURE (Political Thriller) When a gifted Nigerian medical student invents a malaria vaccine derived from sea life, he must challenge a powerful drug company bent on co-opting his work and patenting the creatures from which the vaccine would be made. GRAFT (Coming-of-Age) In 1903, a nineteen-year-old street girl, impersonator, and thief gains an unexpected chance to recreate herself on the stage, which may enable her to transform who she can be in real life. CRAWL SPACE (Psychological Thriller) When an unrepentant war criminal secretly returns home, desperate to clear his name, he meets a troubled drifter whose story mirrors his own, forcing him to run again to finally face what he has become.

< Back Noelle P. Wilson NoellePWilson@gmail.com http://www.noellepwilson.com Noelle P. Wilson (she/her) is an award-winning writer-director-actor born in Brooklyn and based in Queens. Scripts written and co-written by Noelle have won Best Original TV Pilot at the North Fork TV Festival, Best Pilot at the NYCTV Fest and the Tangerine Fellowship at Stowe Story Labs. She is a graduate of the Stony Brook University Masters program (Artistic Director, Christine Vachon of Killer Films and Director of TV Writing, Alan Kinsberg). Recent directing projects include the award-winning short films LIVE LONG (Best Drama at PopCon Film Fest, Audience Choice at Awesome Con Film Fest, PANO Network Development Grant Recipient) TILLIE (Best Short: Eau Claire International Film Festival), and THE HOPEFUL YARD (Best Director/Best Short NYLIFF). As an actor, Noelle can be seen on TV shows such as Law & Order: SVU (NBC), The Knick (Cinemax), Ray Donovan (Showtime), Chicago Med (NBC) and FBI: Most Wanted (CBS). Noelle is a current Teaching Artist at The Barrow Group in New York City, a member of The Independent Writers' Caucus and a volunteer with the 52nd Street Project, a mentoring organization dedicated to the young people who live in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. BY THE BOOK (Half hour comedy - Derry Girls, Abbott Elementary ) A modern 1990s woman must navigate the halls of an antiquated all-girls Catholic high school where she’s determined to teach sex-ed her own way… whether the nuns like it or not. LOVE AFTER LIFE (Half hour fantasy, dramedy - Ghosts, Pushing Daisies ) After her suicide attempt goes awry, a jilted hotel concierge must wait for the powers that be to decide her fate. But her limbo becomes a living nightmare when each of the sick souls she’s tasked to help prove hell bent on making her re-examine her own love life. OH JOY (Feature, Drama, Fantasy - It's a Wonderful Life, Back to the Future ) A grieving woman named Joy is transported to a magical realm where she discovers her name is on Santa’s Naughty List and the only way off is to travel back in time and be nice to the one person she hates the most… her eighteen-year-old self.

< Back Kathryn Machi Brian Judy, Bohemia Group brian@bohemiaent.com - 1.323.462.5800 IMDB Kathryn Machi earned her MFA in creative writing while raising two multicultural children, dealing with cancer, caring for family elders, and working part-time to help pay the rent -- in other words, as do most women, multitasking on many levels. Her writing focuses on intercultural, historical, and multi-generational stories, often with an arts or spiritual bent. Firebird , a dance and family drama set in the Cherokee Nation and the South of France, and TV drama, Clan (aka June Rose), set in 1960s San Francisco and Oklahoma, are both on the Indigenous List , representing "the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry." An erstwhile dancer and holistic practitioner, Kathryn is a Bay Area native, dual U.S.-French citizen, and proud, enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She lives with her husband on the foggy edge of Yelamu, also known as San Francisco. Honors & Awards Finalist, The Indigenous List, Sundance, IllumiNative, the Black List - JUNE ROSE - 2022 Finalist, The Indigenous List, Sundance, IllumiNative, the Black List - FIREBIRD - 2020 FIREBIRD Dance and Family Drama Ruby, a gifted teenage Cherokee ballerina, wins a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dance her dream ballet in the South of France, but her rowdy cowboy father insists on chaperoning her, with his own agenda -- to find Ruby's mother and bring her home to Oklahoma. LA DANSE L'AMOUR LA VIE Romantic period drama After surviving a near-fatal accident, a young photographer trades the foggy streets of San Francisco for the rock'n'roll dance clubs of Paris, where she falls for a charismatic DJ and his reckless best friend. GOD-STRUCK Drama, spirituality Feature EAT, PRAY, LOVE meets THE THREE GLORIAS . Feature film inspired by the true story and New York Times bestseller, A Book of Angels, by Sophy Burnham, with permission by the author. An agnostic, feminist, NY Times bestselling writer loses her family, friends, and almost her mind after she's saved by an angel.

< Back Kelly and Megan Anelons kanelons@me.com Kelly writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing teams. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh. Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister.

< Back Mage Lanz lanz.mage@gmail.com Mage Lanz is screenwriter and story editor currently working in feature development as a story editor at Inzide Media in Los Angeles. She’s written twenty screenplays and has one produced feature, with producing credits on upcoming projects. She was on last year’s Grey List and has placed highly in programs including the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab, Nicholl, the Disney/ABC Writing Program, and the Austin Film Festival, where she also worked as a paid reader. She’s also the author of an unpublished nonfiction book, “The Monist Mindset,” which explores the concept of oneness across philosophy, science, and religion, and an upmarket fiction novel “Inferno”, based on a screenplay of the same name. Honors & Awards The Grey List 2025 - Horror/Fantasy Feature - Oona in Halloweenland Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2024 - Drama Features Coventry; Oona in Halloweenland; One-Hour Pilot - Anne Bonny Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2023 - Comedy Features - Worst Date Ever; Valium Times Day; Half-Hour Teleplay Pilot - Bye Bye Body INFERNO Feature - Psychological Drama/Romance - Phantom Thread, Marriage Story, Blue Valentine, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, In the Mood for Love A newly divorced woman takes a job in a high-end restaurant where she ignites an affair with a brilliant but emotionally repressed chef whose need for control masks a lifetime of buried trauma. BYE BYE BODY Half-hour Pilot - Dramedy - Dead Like Me, My Name is Earl, The Good Place, Broad City, Barry A young, naive ex-con decides to open her own sea burial business as a way to make quick cash, but soon finds out it’s much more complicated than she thought. WORST DATE EVER Feature - Romcom - Date Night, Before Sunrise, Walk of Shame, Before We Go After being robbed of their phones and money on their first date, two middle-aged strangers must work together to get home on one crazy, awful night in Los Angeles.

< Back Reenita Malhotra Hora Manager: One Moorer Management ; james@onemoorer.com reenita.malhotra@gmail.com 415 531 8280 http://www.reenita.com Coverfly Reenita is the unrivaled 'Nora Ephron' of South Asian storytelling, crafting tales as vibrant as her culture—unapologetically Indian, filled with humor, and starring gloriously imperfect characters. LA Weekly hails her as a top Indie writer bringing Indian culture and humor to American audiences. A former journalist and editor, she has written for National Geographic Kids, Disney India, Cartoon Network Asia, The New York Times, CNN, Radio Television Hong Kong, and Bloomberg. Her accolades include the Eric Hoffer Book Award, IndieReader Discovery Award, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award, Script2Comic, Launchpad, and Emerging Screenwriters awards, with Operation Mom receiving second-round consideration for the Sundance Institute Development Slate. Beyond books, she’s the creator of two hit podcasts: The True Fiction Project (where reality collides with fiction) and Shadow Realm (a portal to thrilling narrative fiction). She’s also honed her screenwriting skills through Writers’ Bootcamp and Roadmap Writers, proving she means business. Her book Ace of Blades and screenplay Shadow Realm have been optioned, and coming soon is Festival of Lights (HarperCollins). Discover her world of humor, fantasy, and captivating stories at reenita.com . Honors & Awards Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award, OPERATION MOM 2023 Sundance Institute Development Slate, OPERATION MOM 2024 Emerging Screenwriters Finalist, SHADOW REALM, 2024 Finalist, Screencraft, FAMILY HONOR (AND OTHER LIES) 2024 Finalist, LaunchPad, VERMILION HARVEST, 2023 OPERATION MOM Feature; YA, Romcom - PARENTTRAP meets FREAKY FRIDAY with the tone of NEVER HAVE I EVER Desperate to get her obsessive mom off her back, a feisty Indian-American eleventh-grader becomes her mother’s secret matchmaker only to find love herself. SHADOW REALM Feature Kids/Family, Animation - PERCY JACKSON meets VEDIC MYTHOLOGY When an angry, rebellious teen causes an accident confining his mother to a coma, he needs to battle the 10-headed demon king in the land of the Ramayana mythology to learn to conquer his own inner demon before journeying home to save his mother. UNITED COLORS TV -Half-hour single-cam; YA coming-of-age - DERRY GIRLS meets FRESH OFF THE BOAT A feisty Indian-American teen and her ride-or-die besties devise crazy schemes to persuade their no-nonsense principal into helping her skip college for the family business.