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< Back Laura Mannino lauramannino@gmail.com http://www.lauramannino.com The Black List While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head Bitch In Charge Duchess in a school production of Twelfth Night. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. That set Laura up nicely for a life of performing stand-up, sketch, and improv at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA after graduating from NYU and UCB. Credits include Consulting Producer on MTV's Loveline with Amber Rose and Quibi's Sexology with Shan and Sketch Writer for Awestruck's Asshole Parents. Laura has also written for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital. Laura adapted her half-hour pilot, Bodice Rippers, into an audio drama. In her Substack, Flossing in the Apocalypse, Laura reflects on grief, eldest daughter syndrome, and bearing witness to systemic collapse as her perimenopausal hormones try to kill her. But it's funny. Promise! Passionate about progressive politics, Laura has written social media and voter-engagement videos for The Hometown Project, which pairs celebrities with down-ballot candidates. She also founded the grassroots gun reform group Drain The NRA, which has been covered by The New York Times, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter, and worked as a field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. Laura lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and terrier, Ruffles. Honors & Awards Fiction Podcast Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - BODICE RIPPERS Audio Drama - 2025 Comedy Semifinalist and Scholarship Winner, CineStory Foundation TV Retreat - BODICE RIPPERS - 2024 Grand Prize Winner, Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition - BODICE RIPPERS - 2023 BODICE RIPPERS Half-Hour TV Rom-Com Buddy Comedy BRIDGERTON meets HACKS with a wink & a nod to OUTLANDER When a romance fanfiction writer who prefers her laptop over the limelight helps a runaway princess in the Scottish Highlands, she’s thrust into a media firestorm and into the arms of the celebrity of her secret fantasies. STORM THE CASTLE Half-Hour TV Workplace Comedy ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets PARKS & RECREATION In this modern Robin Hood, obedient Robin returns to her hometown of Sherwood, NJ. There she finds her merry band of rogues to steal back what Sheryl Nottingham, the corrupt exec of Joust Castle, took from its workers to save her family’s legacy. FROST BITE Supernatural Horror Comedy Feature PRACTICAL MAGIC meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD On the longest night of the year, an uptight accountant and her goth teen daughter tap into their dormant witch powers to battle their vampire ancestor, who descends on their small town’s Christmas festival to carry out revenge hundreds of years in the making.

< Back Lisa Kors lisamkors@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131495/ A daughter of immigrants, Lisa Kors was raised near Yonkers, NY. Her love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball with FBI guys and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe not so weird…?) By second grade, Lisa could tell a story that would scare the bejesus out of her friends. To this day, Lisa likes writing stories about good people making bad choices for excellent reasons. She is also an excellent parallel parker. Honors & Awards Coverfly Top 2% of Thriller/Horror TV Pilots - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 THE DRAGON OF HANDALE TV, Drama Based on a popular British novel, The Dragon of Handale is a medieval whodunnit that follows a badass young widow who investigates a gruesome series of murders at the convent where bad nuns are sent to be punished. PRINCES' HOSPITAL TV, Drama (GREY'S ANATOMY x HOMELAND) Inspired by a real hospital in Saudi Arabia, PRINCES' HOSPITAL is a one-hour drama that follows the adventures of the extravagantly paid ex-pat doctors and nurses who treat only the 20,000 members of the royal family. Money, rules and secrets abound. FREAKY FURDAY Feature, Comedy Cat-astophe ensues when a pampered show dog and a scrappy feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes competition.

< Back Khari Wyatt Sheree Guitar Sheree Guitar Entertainment (310) 286-1900 sheree@shereeguitarent.com https://khariwyatt.com Khari Wyatt is the descendant of runaway slaves and inner-city America with its adversities, tragedies and triumphs; the son of high school sweethearts: a mother who is an artist and a father who courageously moved his young family from the rust-belt to our Nation's Capital to find a better life; the grandson of men who wore blue collars in auto plants and on railroad trains; the grandson of women who taught Sunday school and waitressed in greasy spoons. He is a writer. His screenwriting has placed in competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Program, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition and Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition among others. Some fellowships and grants he's received came from MacDowell, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant. His plays have been commissioned, developed or had readings at Chalk Rep, Circle X Theatre, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Co., and Moving Arts. He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David. He was a finalist for New Dramatists, and a semifinalist for the O'Neill NPC, Ashland New Play Festival, Dramatists Guild Foundation Virtual Fellowship, and Bay Street Theater New Works Festival. Wyatt is an alumnus of Howard University and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York. RUN DEEP Crime Drama Taylor St. Brown, a political fundraiser, is forced to confront the demons of his marriage as he engages in a no-holds-barred hunt to find his wife after she goes missing from the scene of a political assassination. JIMMY Crime Drama A banished preacher turned biker returns home to wheel through an odyssey of family secrets and political corruption to meet a destiny he cannot outrun. RUSH TOWN Crime Drama A disgraced LAPD detective enlists the help of friends as she hunts the criminal who cost her everything: the same man she's dangerously in love with.

< Back Nick Perlman nick@nickperlman.com http://www.nickperlman.com IMDb Nick is originally from Tarrytown, NY, which is – to be clear – not “upstate.” He's very passionate about this fact. He was raised on pizza, bagels, and pizza bagels. Pizza was on a bagel and he had pizza anytime. Anyway, Nick is a filmmaker and screenwriter and holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work is focused on telling authentic and heartfelt stories featuring the LGBTQ+ community. Nick has penned eight feature-length screenplays, two pilots, various short works and has directed and self-produced four short films, some of which have screened internationally and have been recognized by multiple festivals. He currently works as a freelance editor for television, streaming and social media. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, CineStory Foundation Feature Retreat - SILENT RETREAT - 2024 Finalist, WeScreenplay Feature Lab - LOVE IS SIMPLE - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship - LOVE IS SIMPLE - 2022 LOVE IS SIMPLE Coming-of-age/Dramedy When two out-of-the-closet high school seniors from dramatically different socioeconomic backgrounds become neighbors in a gentrifying building, they discover not only their similarities and differences, but come to understand everything that love isn't. SILENT RETREAT Dramedy When Jerome runs into his old flame, Luke, at – of all places – a silent retreat, their past threatens to unravel his present. I CARRY YOUR HEART Drama While reckoning with the abuse that has haunted his ancestors for over a century, a stubborn writer must forgive his estranged father before he can commit to being a father himself.

< Back Alexander Adell zander@magnesiumfilm.com Alex Creasia, Navigation Media Group https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011809/ Coverfly Alexander Adell, represented by Alex Creasia at Navigation Media Group, writes Sci-Fi and Drama features and TV filled with tangled and passionate characters who need as much therapy as he does, who claw their way through deeply researched, unforgiving worlds. He won at the 2022 Austin Film Festival with his fiction podcast pilot script CELERITAS, which he produced into a global top ten sci-fi podcast that was nominated for a Webby and received seven Signal Awards including Best Writing and Best Scripted Fiction Podcast. A former Pixar Technical Director now based in Austin, TX, he was regularly pulled out of grade school to hitchhike through developing countries, get hypothermia on Mt. Everest, drink cow blood, and witness the occasional public cremation. From a young age he was drawn to science fiction, which felt more familiar than the Americans around him. Now a father of two, his writing attempts to channel the fear and awe of his childhood, and the broken decision-making of adults who are raised in chaos. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award - Winner - CELERITAS - 2022 Signal Award for Best Scripted Fiction Podcast- Gold - CELERITAS - 2023 ANTLION (Drama Feature, Phantom Thread meets Saltburn) When a furniture maker is ruined by his wealthy clients, he lures them in with a mysterious luxury mattress and turns their methods of indoctrination against them. CELERITAS (Dark Sci-fi Scripted Podcast Series, The Revenant meets Interstellar) The first test of light speed flight hurls an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race, and the memory of his daughter.

< Back Justin Douglas https://www.justin-douglas.com/ Justin Douglas is a screenwriter, comedian, and retired Mascot based in Los Angeles. After diving into Sketch Writing and Stand Up at Arcade Comedy Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh, he studied at The Second City Training Center in Chicago and earned his MFA in Screenwriting with a Concentration in Comedy from DePaul University. In 2023, he was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow as well as a Finalist at the Austin Film Festival and was a Finalist for the Fred Rogers Productions Writers' Neighborhood the following year. Justin writes both television and features that are comedic and range from grounded to borderline absurd. His original sitcom pilot, “The Nuthouse” borrows heavily from his experience as a mascot for a Major League Baseball team while his animated pilot, “The Presidential Hamburger Hut” is his own way of trying to make sense of the political landscape of the last decade, but with cheeseburgers and a side of fries. Justin also works in the hour-long space with his co-writer, Corinthian Maldonado, which has seen Quarterfinalist and Semifinalist placements at ScreenCraft as well as Second Rounder placements twice at Austin Film Festival. Together, they’ve written pilots that take place in the Wild West, Victorian London, and modern-day Brooklyn, all focusing on sibling relationships, but with bounty hunters, vampires, werewolves, and the occasional New Yorker. Honors & Awards Fellow, Sesame Workshop Writer’s Room – 2023 Finalist (Comedic Spec Script) , Austin Film Festival – “Ghosts: Isaac & Nigel: A Lobster Tail” – 2023 Finalist, Fred Rogers Productions’ Writers’ Neighborhood – 2024 THE NUTHOUSE TV Pilot - Comedy - BRING IT ON meets EASTBOUND & DOWN When the Head Mascot of a Major League Baseball team announces his upcoming retirement at the end of the season, his assistant knows he’s a lock for the job, but when the team hires a second assistant, the two engage in a season-long battle to win the crown. PROMOTED Feature - Comedy - FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN When his favorite football team is relegated to the lowest tier of English soccer, a middle aged man dedicates himself to getting in shape for the team’s open tryouts. His trainer: his former Olympian sister, banned from professional sports due to her anger issues. THE PRESIDENTIAL HAMBURGER HUT Television - Animation, Comedy - BOB'S BURGERS meets VEEP Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama ponder their post-political purposes while operating a fast food joint, but when President Trump threatens to close them down, the three must do what they can to save an American Institution.

< Back Christine Sneed sneedchristine@gmail.com http://christinesneed.com In May 2018, Christine Sneed packed her bags, said goodbye to friends, frenemies, and family, and tossed out the ancient spices in her cupboards before pointing the car west from Chicago. A few days later she landed in southern California, lower back in outrage, hair in a semi-permanent snarl. Four+ years on, she still has some boxes to unpack, if we’re being honest here. She's written features and pilots based on her short stories and novels (three novels and two story collections published by Bloomsbury and indie press 7.13 Books, and a forthcoming story collection from Northwestern University Press) as well as original scripts. Comedy is her first love, but she's an experienced writer of dramas too. Her most recent books are Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos and The Virginity of Famous Men (stories). Direct Sunlight (stories) will be out in June 2023. She has an MFA in poetry and a bachelor’s in French, which has been useless job-wise but in her mid-20s she had a good-looking French boyfriend. Presently, she lives in Pasadena with her long-time partner and teaches part-time for Northwestern University's and Regis University's MFA programs (fiction-writing). Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl - THE FEMALE GAZE - 2020 Finalist, ScreenCraft Short Story Contest - QUALITY OF LIFE - 2019 Finalist, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize - PORTRAITS OF A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I'VE MADE CRY - 2011 FIVE ROOMS (Feature or limited series, YA dramedy - JUNO meets SCENT OF A WOMAN) Ignoring her better judgment, a lovelorn teenage girl, struggling over her own recent break-up, agrees to help the blind man she works for after school win back his unfaithful girlfriend. PARIS, HE SAID (Feature or limited series, drama - AUTUMN IN NEW YORK meets PARIS, JE T'AIME) Devil's bargain or golden ticket? When a young destitute painter in NYC is offered the chance to move to Paris and focus on her art, she must decide if it's possible to have the career she longs for without sacrificing her chance at true love. THE HEMINGWAY MYSTIQUE (Feature dramedy - THE BOOKSHOP meets YOU'VE GOT MAIL) When their store is threatened by an unscrupulous landlord, a bookstore owner and her son are helped by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, who has escaped the afterlife in order to check up on his literary legacy.

< Back Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo https://www.fromthefringeentertainment.com/ LinkedIn Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo, an award-winning screenwriter, story consultant, and founder of From the Fringe Entertainment, lives in Oklahoma City. She brings a unique and often underrepresented perspective to her work, particularly, focusing on LGBTQI+ experiences. Her journey as a storyteller is underscored by a strong academic foundation, holding an MFA in Writing for Film and Television from the prestigious Emerson College. This rigorous training has honed her ability to develop nuanced characters and engaging plots that resonate with audiences. Through her company, From the Fringe Entertainment, Kelly actively champions diverse voices and aims to bring stories from the margins to the forefront. Her commitment to inclusivity extends beyond her writing, shaping her approach as a story consultant where she helps other creatives refine their narratives with authenticity and impact. Beyond her screenwriting endeavors, Kelly is deeply invested in nurturing the next generation of storytellers. She served seventeen years as an Associate Professor of English and Screenwriting at Northern Virginia Community College, and she currently serves as a Professor of English at Oklahoma City Community College, where she shares her expertise and passion with aspiring writers. Honors & Awards Best Original Drama Screenplay, Richmond International Film Festival - LOVE LOSS - 2025 Winner, Best TV Pilot, New York Script Awards - RED DIRT RAINBOW - 2022 Selected Project, Stowe Story Lab's Connemara Writers' Retreat - LOVE LOSS - 2024 LOVE LOSS Psychological Romantic Drama Feature - Ordinary People meets The Miseducation of Cameron Post When a devastating car crash reveals a newlywed's secret life to her unknowing mother, her grieving wife must navigate a labyrinth of hidden truths, family prejudice, and profound loss to protect their shared love and find peace. RED DIRT RAINBOW 90s LGBTQI+ Drama Pilot - Tales of the City meets Pose In 1994 Oklahoma City, a disgraced country music star must defend her LGBTQ+ nightclub and found family from a politically powerful crusader, all while navigating personal demons and a simmering culture war that is about to explode into an act of domestic terrorism. SUMMER AT THE NORTH POLE Holiday Dramedy / LGBTQ+ Romance - Groundhog Day meets Happiest Season A cynical traveling nurse takes a job at an immersive, 24/7 Christmas-themed memory care facility to pay off her debts, only to discover her assigned patient is the estranged mother who disowned her over a decade ago.

< Back Hayley Nash hayleyannenash@gmail.com IMDB Fun, wild, and wacky in the most infectious way, Hayley Nash is a (somewhat) young comedy feature film writer. She aspires to be a female Mel Brooks but with better hair. Her work is known for its endless parade of jokes that entertains the masses and brings dishonor upon her family. After graduating from UCLA, she wrote, directed, and produced over a half dozen original movies for ONYX Films, a production company focused on stories by women, for women. Her work has been featured at the Austin Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and her grandma's house in the world-renowned suburb of Naperville, Illinois. Having lived in the Midwest (Chicago), the West Coast (Los Angeles), and whatever Florida counts as, she uses her experiences in the fields of entertainment, history, and private investigation to create rich characters, scintillating dialogue, and one-of-a-kind comedic odysseys. If you like absurdity, then Hayley’s the girl to see. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship - RANGER DANGER - 2025 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - HORSE HEIST - 2024 HORSE HEIST R-Rated Comedy The Hangover meets The Naked Gun Two estranged sisters decide to teach the rich a lesson by putting together a team of Kentucky locals to steal a thirty-million-dollar breeding horse. RANGER DANGER Horror-Comedy Happy Death Day written in the style of Anchorman A young detective joins the Yellowstone park ranger department to hunt down an environmentalist serial killer on the loose in America's oldest national park. STRIPPER LAWYER R-Rated Comedy Legally Blonde meets My Cousin Vinny at a strip club A former-attorney-turned-stripper must return to court to save her business and her best friend in a murder trial.

< Back Christopher J. Valin christophervalin@gmail.com 951-529-1596 http://www.christophervalin.com Coverfly Christopher J. Valin is a writer, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. In addition to his novels, he’s written and inked for independent comic book companies, written scripts for production companies, and has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as The Future Chronicles, Beyond the Stars , and Peter David's The Fans Are Buried Tales . His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won numerous awards and contests, including the BIBA for the first book in the Raptors superhero series, written (as CJ Valin) with Jaime Castle. Christopher received his master's degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line , is the expansion of his master's thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas. Honors & Awards Winner, Golden Age of Television Pilot Competition - THE NEMESIS - 2010 Winner, Scriptwriters Network Producers Outreach Program - SECRET DISCIPLE - 2000 Second Place, TVWriter.com People's Pilot contest - STAR ACADEMY 3013 - 2016 SIDEKICK: THE RED RAPTOR FILES (Superhero TV Drama Pilot - TITANS meets THE BOYS: GEN V ) The city's greatest hero has disappeared and it's up to his teenage sidekick to find him. But Red Raptor isn't prepared for the challenges he must face when he has to go up against their most dangerous foe without his partner. STAR ACADEMY 3013 (Sci-Fi Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE ORVILLE meets LOWER DECKS) The galaxy's best and brightest attend the Star Academy...and so do these guys. They may just experience great adventures some day, if they can survive until graduation. THE NEMESIS (Superhero Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE BOYS meets DESPICABLE ME) Alex's day was bad enough when his nemesis, Eaglestar, revealed to his girlfriend that he was a super-villain. But things go from bad to catastrophic when the other members of his evil league of villains decide to kill him for revealing their plan for world domination.

< Back Natalie Higdon natalie.higdon@gmail.com https://www.nataliehigdon.com/ Natalie Higdon is a comedy writer originally from Memphis, Tenn., where the top tourist attraction is a pyramid-shaped Bass Pro Shop. Her mother is a romance novelist who took her along to writing conventions instead of paying for summer camp. This is where Natalie learned foundational narrative skills like how to best describe a man’s “member” in prose and avoid getting sued by an ex who bears a striking resemblance to your lead villain. After graduating from The University of Memphis with a degree in Journalism (and completing an etiquette class at Dillard’s called White Gloves & Party Manners much earlier), Natalie set out to be a screenwriter and more importantly, move out of her hometown where she never quite fit in (see: pyramid-shaped Bass Pro Shop, above). These experiences inspired her love for writing darkly comedic stories with heart, about fish-out-of-water protagonists who are on a journey to discover and love who they truly are. Natalie’s screenplays have placed in competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and Austin Film Festival. She recently completed the 2024-2025 Paramount Writers Mentoring Program where she was mentored by Carly Berg and Sean Kotzin. Her short film, Dream Skin Mask, premiered as a Film Shortage Daily Pick. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Biscuit. Honors & Awards Paramount Global Announces Participants for 2024-2025 Writers Mentoring Program (EXCLUSIVE) non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ THE ONE One-hour, dramedy SQUID GAME meets THE BACHELOR When Madison is selected for a secretive dating reality show, she soon learns that finding ""the one"" will be her only way to survive. MALL MADNESS Half-hour, comedy THE GOOD PLACE meets SUPERSTORE When a self-absorbed fashion PR girlie dies unexpectedly, she’s sent to purgatory, a 1990s shopping mall, where she must work with an eclectic group of co-workers to pay off her moral debt and get to Heaven. Character-driven, Female-centric, Horror, Dark Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped