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< Back Merridith Allen merridith.allen26@gmail.com http://www.merridithallen.com Coverfly The Black List Merridith Allen proudly comes from a big, loud, Jewish family in New York City with deep roots in the theater and performing arts. A writer/director/producer, Merridith tells stories about women in the martial arts, drama and action spaces. She has won several writing scholarships and fellowships from such prestigious organizations as the Sewanee Writer's Conference, the San Miguel de Allende Writer's Conference, Stowe Story Labs, and VCCA. Notably, she was a finalist for the Austin Film Festival's writing competition, The Blacklist/WIF TV fellowship, and the Juilliard Fellowship. Merridith's plays have been produced and published nationally and abroad, and her first short film, BLACK ROSE, based on the award-winning feature screenplay, is set to come out in 2025. Further, Merridith enjoys creative non-fiction, and she has been published by The Sun Magazine, Burlesque Press, and The Edinburgh University Review. Merridith's day jobs have included screenwriting/creative writing instructor, martial arts instructor, audio description writer, true-crime podcast writer, and yoga instructor. When Merridith is not diving into a story on her lap top or throwing people across the room on the mats, she can be found searching for the perfect cup of coffee and a decent bagel in her adopted city, Los Angeles. All suggestions are welcome. Merridith is absolutely thrilled to join IWC and looks forward to creating and collaborating with the wonderful writers in the organization. Honors & Awards Finalist, Austin Film Festival - SENSEI - 2023, Finalist, Stowe Story Labs FINALIST, Stowe Story Labs - THE LAST DAYS OF ROCK AND ROLL - 2024 FINALIST/LONG-LIST, The Blacklist/WIF TV Lab - STUNTWOMAN - 2024 non-WGA Female, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ SENSEI supernatural horror - BLACK SWAN meets KILL BILL In order to inherit her lover's dojo, a troubled martial artist travels to Japan for one final test, where she must face all of her demons...and may just become one herself. STUNTWOMAN half-hour dramedy, single cam TV Jordan Lee attempts to curb her alcohol dependency and take care of her ailing mother by pursuing her latent dream of becoming a stunt performer…at age 40. Character-driven, Female-centric, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Dark, International, Magical Realism Female, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ unrepped

< Back Megan J. Wilson megan@dirttotem.com Megan lives in Los Angeles but considers the Pacific Northwest home. She’s worked at a publishing house in Seattle, a law firm in North Carolina, the NFL in New York, and a cannery in Alaska – and yes, there were bears. She was a writers assistant for CBS for 3 years, and she wrote and produced a 6-episode webseries (The Sanctum, 2009). She writes action/drama, action/sci-fi, and action/comedy, and her stories often feature families dealing with mental illness. She’s been finalist for the PAGE Award, quarterfinalist for the Nicholl, Script Pipeline and Austin Film Festival and she's been featured on the Red List and the Next List. Megan currently has two features and a short in development. Megan is active in the LA-writing community, as co-founder of the League of Women Writers and co-founder of the Writer X Director Mixer. She loves quilting, snowboarding, writing graphic novels, and has a complicated relationship with her crockpot. Honors & Awards Finalist, PAGE Awards - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2022 Official Selection, The Next List - 2024 - https://www.tracking-board.com/the-next-list-2024/ non-WGA Female, 40+ AVALANCHE EXPRESS (Action Feature) When a passenger train traveling through the Alps is caught in an avalanche, the Syrian-Swiss conductor must surmount her own fear of being buried alive to lead the remaining passengers in a struggle for survival. DROP ZONE (Hourlong Procedural) When the prodigal daughter of a firefighting family returns home to Montana as a forest service firefighter (a “smokejumper”), she clashes with the father who disowned her and confronts the sister who married her high school sweetheart. DUSTRISE (Horror Feature) When two sisters take a back road to Burning Man to avoid the fees, their dream trip becomes a nightmare, as a 100-year flood wakes terrifying monsters from a dry riverbed to feed on festivalgoers. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Rebekah Mueller Jake Weiner, Good Fear rebekahlmueller.writes@gmail.com http://www.rebekahmueller.com Coverfly The Black List Rebekah Mueller is a drama and genre writer from the Bible Belt of rural Pennsylvania, where she always knew she was close to home by the "Repent or Burn in Hell" barn murals. Growing up with mysterious seizures, she learned early on the importance of self-advocacy in finding your way through the rabbit hole. She began her career as a video editor before pivoting into the tech industry. Her disillusionment as an executive for Fortune 50 companies led her to write her TV pilot, MOONRISE, featured on the Blood List and winner of WeScreenplay's Diverse Voices Lab. Rebekah loves to create characters who escape societal and familial pressures to discover one's true self by embracing chaos. Her scripts have trended #3 on the Black List, and have been selected by the Austin Film Festival and ScreenCraft. She participated in Stowe Narrative Lab, Stowe Producing Lab, and UCLA’s TV & Film Producing program. Rebekah is currently in the 2025 cohort for the Paramount Writers Mentoring program. In addition to writing, Rebekah helped produce the drama short SUNKISS. She is in development on her first horror-thriller short, as both writer and director. Rebekah is repped by Good Fear. Honors & Awards Paramount Writers Mentoring Program , Paramount - BLOOD RELATIVE - 2025 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - EVIL "The Sin of Forgiveness" Spec - 2024 Official Selection, Blood List - MOONRISE - 2021 non-WGA Female, Disabled BLOOD RELATIVE (Thriller - DEXTER meets KILLING EVE ) As problems pile up in her life, a tightly-wound woman reconnects with her protective older sister. KILL THE RABBIT (Darkly Comedic Psych Thriller - UNITED STATES OF TARA meets BABY REINDEER ) A recently widowed game designer struggles to balance work, motherhood, and her own individuality when visions of her dead husband encourage her to stalk her new coworker. MOONRISE (Sci-fi Thriller - TRUE BLOOD meets DISTRICT 9 ) When an ambitious scientist uncovers the barbaric truth behind a cure-all DNA therapy, she must choose between healing her father’s illness and destroying her employer’s cruel vampire-industrial complex from within. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Dark Female, Disabled Repped

< Back Steven Goldman sgoldmannn@aol.com Escaping NY in his 20s, Steve started working in the UK with a comedic essay he slipped under the door at The Sunday Times . Apparently, it wasn’t half bad. Over the years, he's had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Birkin at a sewage treatment plant in the South of France, discussing Andrei Tarkovsky with Woody Allen in Chinatown while staring at his shoes (brown), and not getting thumped by Harvey Weinstein over lunch. He's been embedded with a film crew in a Panamanian rainforest, watched a surgeon give a man breast implants, and attended more press conferences than he would care to remember (or admit). Along the way, Steven has written two pretty cool cartoons (voiced by Tim Curry & Lynn Redgrave) based on the Eloise books by Kay Thompson and Hilar Knight. He teaches sea kayaking (at UCLA), has completed two circumnavigations of Manhattan (we made up), co-led two open-sea crossings to Catalina, and, most recently, joined a small group of volunteers banding hummingbirds in southeastern Arizona. non-WGA Male TRANSITIONAL BOB (Animated, Limited Series/Dark Comedy) An eccentric drifter on the run from the law sets off to find his long lost brother, only to discover the man he’s looking for is the same man who’s pursuing him, and the mystical hitchhiker he’s picked up along the way may be planning to eat him. DOUBLE TROUBLE (Feature Comedy) A well-meaning minion turns his life into a living hell when he gets his wild man best friend a job as his assistant - but as he struggles to get rid of him, neither one is aware that the workplace itself is a front for a criminal operation and they’re both being set up as fall guys. Character-driven, Animation, Limited Series Male unrepped

< Back Tony Ferrendelli ajferrendelli@gmail.com 720.988.7203 https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm14584960 Coverfly The Black List Tony Ferrendelli is a Colorado native who sporadically relocates to Southern California because it doesn’t snow. There are more reasons but this is the short version. His background is comedy and there’s a strong humorous element that leans toward sarcastic or observational present in his writing. His stories are largely character-driven and include people uncomfortable with themselves who must change to move forward. Tony is equally versed in developing and delivering a strong dramatic story. Much to the dismay of his 4th grade English teacher, and Mom, he can’t conjugate a verb to save his life. Luckily for him, screenwriting allows a little leeway in that area as confirmed by his Top 50 placement with Academy Nicholl Fellowships and recent win at the Austin Film Festival. Current project: Exploring the dark comedic depths of medically-assisted suicide with his writing partner, and the significantly funnier, Kim Turner. non-WGA Male, 55+, Over 40 SAIGON DOLL (Feature/Drama, Historical Fiction) In the final chaotic hours of the US exodus from Saigon, a grieving Marine struggles against enemy soldiers — some of whom share his uniform — in order to shepherd an orphaned 8-year-old Vietnamese girl to the American embassy. 2ND RATE FAIRY (Pilot/Comedy; Hybrid live action and animation) An irresponsible fairy in danger of being expelled from the fairy union and reduced to mere human status, forces her godmothering services on a comedian who has trouble saying no. OUTSOURCED (Feature/Supernatural Comedy) A down-on-his-luck 20-something accidentally sells his girlfriend’s soul to Satan and must go to Hell to retrieve it. Character-driven, Dark, Snarky Male, 55+, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Jori Lynn Felker joriwritestv@gmail.com Agent: Michael Chung (Verve) Coverfly Forged amidst the biting winds of Chicago with a Nintendo joystick in hand, Jori once earned a Neuroscience degree just to spite a misogynistic ex. But upon realizing GREY’S ANATOMY poorly resembled her vision of being a doctor, she disappointed her conservative Jewish family, pivoting into entertainment. With eight years in the support staff trenches, Jori's eclectic journey spans from Disney kid’s comedies (GABBY DURAN & THE UNSITTABLES) to erotic thrillers (THE IDOL). Yet, it was in the universe of her frozen-time coming-of-age drama BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS where Jori's distinctive whimsical voice found its home. Science, family, and sexuality permeate her writing, often engineering high concepts to unveil the unsavory and complex facets of her characters. Currently, Jori is penning the feature adaptation of the indie-darling game THE UNFINISHED SWAN for PlayStation and supporting the writers’ room on the first season of the FOR ALL MANKIND spinoff show on Apple. Between saving Zelda or 'catching 'em all' in Pokemon, Jori works her way through her 'alphabet hobbies,' which have included everything from Blacksmithing to Exotic Dancing. She is currently on the letter ‘H’ and taking courses in ‘computer hacking.’ Honors & Awards Writer’s Lab - Bonfire (Baobab) 2020 Nicholl Fellowship – (Top 10%) The First Year - 2020 Unique Voices – Finalist - The First Year - 2020 Current member Female, LGBTQ+ THE UNFINISHED SWAN (Feature - Magical Realism) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND meets GROUNDHOG DAY Struggling with a tough decision, a teenage boy accidentally stops time, but can’t figure out how to restart it. Based on the video game. PlayStation producing. GLITCHIKER (Pilot - Sci-fi/Drama) THE DROPOUT meets MR. ROBOT. A disgraced tech CEO must decide how far she’ll go to redeem her legacy when she stumbles upon technology so earth-shattering, the world might not be ready for it — teleportation. THE FIRST YEAR (Feature - Drama/Coming of Age) AN EDUCATION meets TULLY An introverted freshman is taken under the wing of her peculiar RA and finds herself forced to grow up in ways she never expected. Character-driven, Science, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Coming-of-Age, Magical Realism Female, LGBTQ+ Repped

< Back Carolyn Kras Manager: Doorie Lee, 42 - doorielee@42mp.com 213-354-9700 https://carolynkras.com Carolyn Kras has developed projects for 20th TV Studio, Escape Artists, Welle, and more. She was named to ISA's List of "Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch." Her former experience working at a law firm influenced her writing as she enjoys telling stories of ambitious people in high-stakes conflicts. Her awards include the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab, Alfred P. Sloan First Place Screenwriting Award, Visionary Playwright Award, New York Television Festival Official Selection, Plume & Pellicule Screenwriting Award, Middlebury Script Lab Selection, Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship, and a Fulbright to the United Kingdom. She has been a writer-in-residence at Ucross Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, Ragdale Foundation, and Anderson Center at Tower View. Her plays have been produced or developed at The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Theatre 40, Pacific Resident Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Stage Left Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Williams Street Rep, Theater Masters, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and more. Carolyn is an alum of the NBC Page Program, Women in Film Mentorship Program, and Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre Program. She has a B.A. in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Chicago, Carolyn is now based in LA. non-WGA Female CUTTHROAT (Teen Horror Feature - SCREAM meets CLUELESS) The competition to get into college is killer…literally. When a masked murderer targets top students at a prestigious prep school, Senior Class President Ruby and her friends attempt to solve the mystery of his identity—but they have to hurry before they become the next victims. NEW REALITY (Romantic Dramedy Feature - DESK SET meets UP IN THE AIR) When a major tech corporation flies international H-1B visa holders into the U.S. to cut costs by replacing its American staff, Maggie is directed to train Shen to take over her job. She's torn between sabotaging him to save her dream career and falling for him. THE SECOND CITY (TV drama/crime procedural - PEAKY BLINDERS meets BOARDWALK EMPIRE) In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an escaped convict invents a new identity and joins the police department as the city struggles to rise from the ashes. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Procedural, Romantic, Horror, Historical/Alternative History Female repped

< Back Robin Fusco robin@robinfusco.com 323-645-0133 http://www.robinfusco.com Coverfly The Black List Robin creates layered psychological thrillers that take the women you love to hate, put them in fucked-up situations, and make you root for them. She previously coached physicians from around the world on empathy and medical ethics, and she draws on this expertise to bring emotional truth to complex, morally ambiguous narratives. Robin was a recent WIF Writing Circle Mentee as well as a NYSCA/NYFA Screenwriting Fellow, and her scripts have placed in numerous competitions including WeScreenplay, ScreenCraft, and Cinequest. She’s also a commissioned and published playwright whose work has been produced internationally. A proud member of the Independent Writers’ Caucus and The Dramatists Guild, she was awarded an MFA in screenwriting from Point Park University. Robin tells stories that immerse us in lives unlike our own, and when she’s not writing, you can often find her out in nature hiking and conquering mountains — another way in which she expands her perspective. Robin is based in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Writing Circle Mentee , Women in Film - 2022 Screenwriting Fellow , NYSCA/NYFA - 2019 Winner, WeScreenplay Television Contest - COLLATERAL DAMAGE - 2018 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ CAPITAL (Hourlong Drama) After her best friend is murdered, a high-end sex worker’s quest for justice unravels a dangerous conspiracy involving her longtime john and his covert political group that’s intent on dismantling the U.S. from within. THE AYON HIVE (Hourlong Premium Drama) A lost and desperate woman gives up everything to join a happiness commune only to discover that the leader of this supposed utopia is using psychological and physical torture to mold select devotees into perfect, made-to-order wives for wealthy, powerful men. BIOGENESIS (Hourlong Crime/Medical Drama) An ambitious biochemist must outmaneuver her narcissistic husband, protect her children, and avoid capture by the FBI as she infiltrates the ranks of the hacktivists who have turned her revolutionary, widely distributed heart implants into murder weapons. Science, Medical, Crime, Procedural, character-driven, female-centric, psychological, dark Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Kelly Jo Brick kellyjobrick@gmail.com https://kellyjobrick.com Kelly Jo Brick is a Sundance Fellow and alum of the Women In Film Writer/Showrunner Mentoring Program. She received specialized training through both the FBI and LAPD community academies and is a member of a national intelligence-gathering agency dedicated to protecting US infrastructures. Originally from a small town in the heart of Wisconsin’s dairy country, Kelly Jo developed a love for storytelling when as a child she’d gather up her stuffed animals and toy horses to create adventure after adventure. With degrees in creative writing and English, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin where she played trombone in the highly acclaimed Wisconsin Marching Band. She writes "The Bricks of Breaking In," an interview series for Final Draft that focuses on breaking in and growing your writing career and is currently the Vice Chair of the WGA Genre Committee. From crime and mysteries to underdogs and dysfunctional families, Kelly Jo is fascinated with building the journeys of characters put into situations where they have to struggle, grit, and grind through huge hurdles and do so with heart, perseverance, and passion. WGA Associate Member Female THE RIDGE (TV Crime Drama) A Las Vegas FBI agent exposes corruption in the police department of her suburban Pittsburgh hometown, resulting in her being appointed interim chief, set with the task of chasing down a powerful drug ring while also having to survive her wildly dysfunctional family. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Procedural Female unrepped

< Back Veronica Chavira v.chavira@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2737758/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Veronica is a Los Angeles-based queer Latinx feature and TV dramedy writer whose family hails from East Los Angeles. She writes character driven coming-of-age stories about people who challenge the status quo and forge new paths with humor and gusto to create a better world. She attained her MFA in Screenwriting from Stephens College and is a proud active volunteer at the LGBT Center in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Semifinalist - Austin Film Festival - NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - ON HER TURF - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - THE WIN - 2022 non-WGA Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL (One hour Drama - think SELF MADE, MAID) In 1915, Asian American film pioneer Marion Wong decides to become a silent filmmaker after watching a racist Hollywood film of actors in yellow face to tell authentic Asian stories in the face of her family and society’s opposition. ON HER TURF (Half-hour Dramedy - think FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, GLOW) Identical twins Summ and Sarah were raised by their father, an NFL legend, to be athletic and driven. Together they dreamed of playing on the university football team until Sarah finds a newfound calling: to join a sorority. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Billie Jo Mason lapdawg3@gmail.com 805-907-1500 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7620465/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 As a lifelong reader of science fiction and fantasy, Billie Jo wanted to be an astronaut so she studied electrical engineering in college until she realized that an inner ear problem was going to keep her from actually going to space, so she became... a writer! Billie has worked in the story departments and as a union story analyst at most of the major studios and William Morris, though her claim to fame is smuggling a rescued baby chicken into the story department at MGM and keeping it in the script library (long story). Billie recently wrapped the room on the Apple+ show SUGAR (starring Colin Farrell) and working with showrunner Mark Protosevich as his writer's room assistant. A native of Los Angeles, Billie rarely resorts to chicken smuggling. Honors & Awards Participant, Meryl Streep/Writer’s Lab – The Cargo - 2015 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship – The Cargo - 2018 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - SPEEDWAY - 2022 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE CARGO Sci-Fi/Thriller Feature Comp: No Way Out As mankind loses the war against ruthless alien invaders, a traumatized military pilot sent to retrieve a top-secret cargo is stranded with her crew on a crippled transport orbiting Saturn and hunted by the aliens – with one onboard posing as human. SPEEDWAY Sci-fi (futuristic)/Heist Feature Comps: Oceans 11 meets The Italian Job In the near future, all driving is outlawed and automatic cars rule the Speedway at 250 m.p.h., until one driver and her team outwit the system to pull off a seemingly-impossible bank heist and daring escape, for profit, thrills and ultimately revenge. FALLEN ANGEL (AT WORLD’S END) TV PILOT Comps: Altered Carbon/The Expanse 300 years in the future, the teenage granddaughter of Earth’s most powerful and immoral despot flees Earth pursued by agents of her grandfather only to be trapped on the most dangerous planet in the galaxy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Science, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA Female, 40+ repped

< Back Sabine El Gemayel sabine.el.gemayel@gmail.com http://www.sabineelgemayel.com SABINE EL GEMAYEL is a writer, director, and editor known for exploring socio-political dynamics across Canada, France, Iran, the Levant, and the US. Born in Tehran to a Lebanese father and French mother, her artistic journey reflects the diverse cultural influences and the intense civilian war experiences that have shaped her. Her feature narrative NILOOFAR and feature documentary GENERATION ZAPPED have garnered international acclaim, along with nominations and awards at prestigious festivals like Berlinale, Cannes Junior, AFI FF, Sedona IFF, Dubai IFF, and many more. Her screenwriting skills have earned her fellowships from Hedgebrook and DreamAgo. Her screenplay, BRINGING IT HOME, was nominated at the Breaking Through The Lens 2022 screenplay competition and became a semi-finalist for The Abortion Pipeline Grant of the Athena FF in 2024. As a film editor, she edited Lebanon’s official submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2020 Oscars, 1982, as well as Palestine's submission in 2004, THE OLIVE HARVEST. Fluent in French and English and proficient in Arabic and Persian, El Gemayel's multilingual and multicultural background adds a unique perspective to her storytelling. Currently, El Gemayel has several projects in the pipeline and is actively engaged in the industry, mentoring for the Royal Film Commission of Jordan's MOSAIC Post Lab 2025, serving on their Film Fund 2024 jury, and evaluating for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers program. Honors & Awards Fellowships from Hedgebrook (2019) and DreamAgo (2010 & 2012). Nominated at the Breaking Through The Lens 2022 screenplay competition - BRINGING IT HOME - 2022 Semi-finalist for The Abortion Pipeline Grant of the Athena FF - BRINGING IT HOME - 2024 non-WGA Female BRINGING IT HOME (Drama) When Kay, a war veteran with a high-risk pregnancy due to depleted uranium exposure, meets Hadiya, a refugee and former Iraqi midwife, they’re forced to find common ground over the fate of Kay’s unborn child. BE MY BABY (Trilingual drama) Colette, a French working professional and single mother living in LA, hires Tracy, an American surrogate, and Luna, a Hispanic wet nurse and caregiver, only to be confronted with the complexities of motherhood as Tracy carries the baby, Luna cares for him, and Colette only has the time to raise him part-time. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Satire, Naturalistic, International Female repped