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< 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 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Latinx, Multi-Ethnic, LGBTQ+ 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. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Science, Bittersweet, Slapstick, International, Magical Realism Male, BIPOC, Latinx, Multi-Ethnic, LGBTQ+ Repped

< Back Richard Dane Scott IMDB Richard Dane Scott’s professional screenwriting career began in 2013 with the family film MY DOG THE CHAMPION, starring Lance Henriksen. Since then, he’s had 9 other features produced, including the recent animated A TOOTH FAIRY TALE, starring the voices of Fran Drescher, Jon Lovitz, and Vivica A. Fox. His comedy spoof AVENGERS OF JUSTICE: FARCE WARS starring Amy Smart and Simon Rex was featured in Variety and thankfully disappeared before anyone could see it. As an Asian-American, Richard was honored to be on the diverse writing staff of the TV series 5TH WARD – an hour-long drama depicting the struggles of two African-American and Asian-American families, produced by Dominique Telson and B.E.T. founder Robert L. Johnson. Richard has also been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl’s Fellowship quarter-finalist three times and his family feature screenplay SIERRA SHINES scored a Perfect 10 on the The Blacklist, prompting a telephone conversation with prolific producer Cassian Elwes. With his modest career, Richard has shown that he can take existing I.P. (Soul Man, The Last Starfighter) and reboot them for today’s audiences. He has also adapted two books (The Quest for Serendipity, Dreaming of the Majors) into feature length screenplays, and currently has three TV pilots in development. Recently, he’s been featured on the annual Stuntlist and can now be seen and heard as a frequent panelist for the Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio film festivals. Honors & Awards Finalist, Austin Film Festival - KNOCKED SILLY - 2010 Winner, Page International - JOURNEY OF THE TUMBLEWEED - 2021 Featured, Stuntlist - THE LAST STARFIGHTER - 2025 non-WGA Male, Asian, 40+ BONNIE & COLLIDE Romantic thriller Niagara meets True Romance Logline: Two young outcasts fall in love and when they witness a murder, must flee from a mob assassin to save their lives. LA CATRINA Romantic thriller Sicario , Kevin Costner's Revenge , with a dash of Ballerina Texas Border Patrol agent Catrina foolishly falls for the hitman lover of a notorious Drug Cartel Warlord, marking both for dead. DEADWEST Horror Army of Darkness meets Cowboys & Aliens When a wanted criminal is killed and foolishly buried in an Apache burial ground, he returns to seek vengeance and wreak havoc on the town’s heroic marshal. Crime, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Children's, Animation Male, Asian, 40+ unrepped

< Back Trudi Witzand Kennedy tjkennedy@live.com.au IMDB Breaking free from a doomsday sect as a teen, Trudi advanced in media and architectural careers in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States. Surviving cancer, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for story telling. Her experience of resilience and transformation fuels her feature and series writing. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 55+ POLAR Action Thriller - The Revenant/Thelma and Louise An adventure trip becomes a new fight for survival for a pair of cancer thrivers stranded in an Arctic storm, stalked by a polar bear, mutated by toxins. THE GHOSTS IN THE VILLA Sixth Sense/The Shining When the psychic daughter of a Villa caretaker befriends the ghost of a silent film starlet, she unwittingly enrages a possessive maternal spirit and must develop her gifts to save the ones she loves. DESTINATION WEDDING Horror - GetOut/Midsommar A troubled couple travel to a remote village for a destination wedding, but discover the villagers are actually a cannibal cult enticing newlyweds for ritual sacrifice. Character-driven, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Dark Female, 55+ unrepped

< Back Nicola Pittam Alexander Robb -Insignia Entertainment alex@insignia-ent.com As a British journalist, best-selling author and screenwriter, Nicola has worked in the entertainment and media industries for 35 years, starting as a reporter for Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper. After moving to Los Angeles in 1997, she covered some of the biggest stories across America, including the Columbine School shooting and 9/11. She has interviewed every major star from Jack Nicholson and Anthony Hopkins to Christian Bale and Renee Zellweger. As well as running her own news agency, Nicola is Director of Author Services at OneMoorer Media, where she helps authors and screenwriters create their own IP. She is also the COO for indie publishing companies Dark Anthem Press and One Anthem Press. Dark Anthem publishes horror, sci-fi, thriller, dark gothic and dystopian YA while One Anthem, will focus on romance, drama, children’s books and non-fiction. Nicola is the author of 4 best selling books including the Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Vow of Silence, and The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek, which she adapted from her own script and which hit Number 1 on Amazon’s Jewish category and won an award in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Nicola also writes TV and feature drama screenplays that feature strong female characters that have placed in contests including the Bitch List, The Grey List’s Top 40 Writers Over 40 in 2023 and 2025, Shore Scripts, Atlanta Film Festival, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Table Read My Screenplay and Austin Film Festival. Honors & Awards The Grey List - Official Selection- House of the Rising Sun - 2023 The Bitch List - House of the Rising Sun - 2019 Top 100 Table Read My Screenplay - House of the Rising Sun - 2023 The Grey List - Official Selection - The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek - 2025 " non-WGA Caucus only Female, 40+ HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - One Hour TV Drama Harlots meets Underground Railroad An influential New Orleans’ Madam secretly joins forces with Queen of Voodoo Marie Laveau to ensure the South loses the Civil War and abolishes slavery forever. THE REBEL PIANIST OF MAJDANEK - Feature Schindler's List meets The Pianist Based on True Story When a captured piano virtuoso refuses to play for Nazi entertainment in the concentration camp, she’s faced with a heartbreaking choice - share her music or suffer crippling torture. 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE - Feature The Mad Women's Ball meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Based on true story. In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, pretends to be crazy to go undercover as a patient in notorious women’s insane asylum Blackwell’s Island in NY to expose corruption, abuse and even murder. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Dark Female, 40+ Repped

< 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 non-WGA Female, 40+ 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. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Linda Dillon Moya (Sweigart) Manager: Sandra Avila, Inclusion Management - www.inclusionmgmt.com https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2130265/credits Raised on the border of El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, Linda studied at an all-girl Catholic school. She was a tomboy until she was sent to modeling school to become a beauty queen. Linda spent her childhood perfecting her English and Spanish skills to please her mother, who taught ESL. She learned to shoot guns from her father, a Green Beret, who had severe PTSD. In high school, Linda discovered that her father was actually her stepfather. This precipitated Linda’s rebellious period. She dated the son of a notorious drug lord until her mother packed her off to study in Spain. Linda has worked in diverse fields: an archeological field-tech, a financial planner, and an instructor at Homeland Security, where she taught TSA Agents to find bombs. These experiences led to a passion for storytelling that landed her an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. When her mother died unexpectedly, her mom’s so-called best friend seduced her stepfather, dumped him at a retirement home, and pillaged the family estate. Heartbroken, Linda took a two-year pilgrimage around the world where she was courted by an Indian Prince, consulted Cambodian fortune tellers, and was hospitalized in Myanmar for a spider bite. Luckily, she lives to tell the tale. WGA Associate Member Female, BIPOC, Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, Multi-Ethnic BORDER SAINTS (Supernatural Crime Drama - SUPERNATURAL meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) An ambitious FBI agent must embrace her ancestral powers to take down the men who murdered her father, but as family secrets unravel, she learns nothing is as it appears. BURNOUTS (Drama - WHITE LOTUS meets THE RESORT) An aggrieved woman stranded in a foreign country finds love and a sense of purpose in the most unexpected place -- Siem Reap, Cambodia. We follow her life and struggles as she works to reinvent herself. WHITE SANDS (Sci-fi/Drama - in the vein of X-FILES) FBI agents Dr. David Carmichael and Lexie Stone investigate a murder found on sacred Native American land. Stumped, they enlist a crew of archeological misfits and a Hopi Shaman to investigate the crime and other strange occurrences across the United States. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Procedural, Fantasy, International, Magical Realism Female, BIPOC, Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, Multi-Ethnic repped

< Back Kenneth Hicks kenny.hicks81@gmail.com James Moorer, One Moorer Media & Management https://www.obeliskmediasite.com/ As an optioned and repped writer Kenneth Hicks writes stories about heroes dealing with tremendous external pressures. Based in Los Angeles and half of a writing duo, they focus on protagonists who must stay grounded to fulfill their inherent responsibilities usually involving family and relationships. As a devoted single dad, Kenneth writes stories reflecting the struggle of fathers who will do whatever it takes to protect their loved ones. Kenneth is a world traveler from Cleveland, Ohio which allows his stories to speak not just to the multifaceted black experience, but the greater humanity that resonates in us all. While Kenneth is not a veteran he worked for years on a NATO Base in Kandahar Afghanistan in support of US troops as a civilian contractor. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black, 40+ FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING One-Hour TV | Crime / Family Drama - POWER meets THE SOPRANOS After his rap star little brother is murdered due to his involvement with a criminally run record label, a single dad takes his daughter into witness protection as he faces his demons to unravel what led to his brother’s death and get justice for his family. THE HARD WAY One-Hour TV | Sports / Period Drama - HEELS meets ENTOURAGE It’s 1985 and a small-town wrestling prodigy must fight his way to the top of the biggest league in America while dodging the pitfalls of stardom in order to care for his sick mother and pregnant girlfriend at home. THE PRYOR ENGAGEMENTS Feature | Romance / Comedy - HITCH meets THINK LIKE A MAN At a Crossroads between living his dream and facing his reality, a struggling actor finds himself engaged to three women simultaneously. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Thriller, Dark Male, BIPOC, Black, 40+ repped

< Back Matt Harry Manager: Dash Aiken, Romark Films - dash@romarkfilms.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1243167 Growing up in suburban Ohio, Matt quickly realized he was unlike other kids. While they were trading baseball cards, he was reading Naked Lunch. When they gossiped at football games, he snuck off to the library to write funny plays. In college, he found his fellow weirdos (filmmakers). Since then he has published four novels, sold a TV pilot, and created an interactive play. He also worked as an editor for 15 years. He's still weird. Honors & Awards Top 100, Launchpad Manuscript Contest - GHOST DICK - 2022 Finalist, Stowe Story Labs - VANISHING POINT - 2021 Semifinalist, Screencraft Comedy Competition - MONSTER COPS - 2022 WGA Associate Member Male, Over 40 MONSTER COPS (Half-hour Comedy) In a world where monsters are real and (somewhat) accepted by society, a tough ex-monster hunter and a vegan werewolf team up to catch those who break the law. EARWORM Feature Horror Unable to sleep, a young psychiatry student listens to a mysterious sleep podcast, and falls victim to increasingly dangerous hallucinations. SIX FIGURES (Feature Thriller) Four co-workers discover a chest filled with $6 million buried in the Mojave desert and decide to carry it out on foot, beginning a grueling two-day trek that culminates in paranoia, lies, and murder. Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Animation Male, Over 40 repped

< Back Jen Bosworth-Ramirez jenbosworthramirez@gmail.com http://www.jenbosworthramirez.com Coverfly Jen Bosworth-Ramirez is a Latina tv/feature writer based in Los Angeles and Chicago. She's a former assistant to Nic Cage-turned therapist for felons-turned writer. The daughter of a fierce Colombian immigrant mom and car thief-turned used car salesman father, Jen writes dark comedies in the adult space and heartfelt, mental health focused television for bridge aged kids. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Chicago where she lives with her shy husband and their recalcitrant dog, Doris. Honors & Awards Current Sesame Workshop Writer's Room Fellow Current Unlock Her Potential Mentee of Stacy Traub, Writer/Showrunner (Black Ish, Daisy Jones, The Real O'Neals) non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ MAN)DATED 30 min dark, workplace comedy - Breaking Bad x Community When a burnt out therapist, drowning in student debt, is assigned a fresh out of prison, charming, drug kingpin as her new client, she finds herself breaking rules, pushing boundaries, and falling head over heels for a guy whose primary love language is murder. LINDA & CO. 11 minute animated heartfelt comedy for bridge age kids When Linda Romero, a brilliant visual artist, and the daughter of Colombian immigrant parents begins having panic attacks, she learns it's okay to reach out for help. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Coming-of-Age, Children's, Animation, Snarky Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ unrepped

< Back Adrienne Thorne IMDb Adrienne Thorne is from middle-of-nowhere farm-country in Washington state, where she spent her childhood writing stories in between driving tractors and competing in county fair 4-H contests. In the years since then, Adrienne earned an MBA in film producing and has had a feature script produced. She has also sold a spec to an indie company, and she recently optioned an original YA dramedy feature. Adrienne has placed in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship multiple times, in addition to placements in ScreenCraft and Network ISA contests. Having been happily married to her former high school boyfriend for twelve years, Adrienne writes through the lens of the transforming power of both romantic and familial love. When she’s not writing, Adrienne is busy navigating through the non-stop adventure of life with the autistic and other neurodiverse traits that she and most of her five children live with. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship, STUDS - 2020 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship, STONES - 2022 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Contest - CAULIFLOWER QUEEN 2024 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, Disabled BULLSH!T Action-Comedy - a lighter COCAINE BEAR meets the country feel of TWISTERS A screwup ranch-hand and his hapless buddies work in real time to catch the raging bull he accidentally let out, before it wreaks havoc on their small town and his blunder is discovered by his fed-up boss and his newly-pregnant, long-suffering girlfriend. CAULIFLOWER QUEEN Animated family comedy - CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS meets THE PRINCESS DIARIES An idealistic teenage beauty queen fights against an unscrupulous potato chip company mogul who wants to pave her town’s beloved farmland, while she unknowingly falls for his son. STONES Coming-of-age dramedy - LADY BIRD meets QUIZ LADY An impetuous teenage farm girl seeks freedom from her all-male household on a trip to a national dairy knowledge bowl competition, despite her overbearing brother coming along as chaperone. Character-driven, Western, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, YA, Animation, Snarky Female, Disabled unrepped

< Back Shoshana Rosenbaum John Zaozirny - Bellevue Productions IMBD Shoshana Rosenbaum is a writer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. Her feature directorial debut, The Other You, won Best Metro DC film at the DC Independent Film Festival and the Narrative Feature Award at the Chesapeake Film Festival. Shoshana makes films that use magical realism, science fiction and horror to explore alternate realities and gender dynamics. Her short films --The Goblin Baby (a supernatural thriller about the first year of motherhood), Hide And Seek (an alternate reality tale about a rock musician turned stay-at-home dad) and Night Waking (a domestic sci-fi thriller) — have won awards and screened at festivals across the U.S. and internationally. In 2021, Shoshana was part of the inaugural cohort of the Destroy All Boundaries Directing Mentorship and named DC Filmmaker of the Month by the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment. Her work has been recognized by The Bitch List, Stowe Story Labs, Austin Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival and DC Shorts Film Festival, among others. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 40+ A.I.L.A. Drama/Science Fiction A visionary tech CEO invents a domestic AI to help raise her family -- a that project threatens to derail both her career and her relationship with her children. A near-future, feminist Frankenstein. THE LAMIA Drama/Supernatural Horror An ambitious young woman fighting the toxic culture of the venture capital industry confronts what it means to be a monster when she accesses power passed down through the ages by shape-shifting snake-women. AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS Drama/Supernatural Horror An overwhelmed new mother inadvertently awakens a dark spirit in the forest, which threatens to replace her. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism Female, 40+ repped

< Back Shaene M. Siders writer@DragonUnderGlass.com http://www.DragonUnderGlass.com Shaene Siders is an IBM-certified computer geek and an award-winning action, science fiction, and fantasy writer. Never read her scripts without a helmet! Her work has reached from the deepest seas (THE OCTONAUTS) to the farthest stars (NASA). A Humanitas Prize nominee, Shaene is a writer of fine explosions who geeks out over swords, sorcery, and superheroes. She recently finished as a staff writer on Cartoon Network’s Young Adult anime series INVINCIBLE FIGHT GIRL and she wrapped 5 seasons as Co-Creator, Head Writer, and Executive Producer for HELLO KITTY AND FRIENDS SUPERCUTE ADVENTURES. (Her show had more explosions than you might think!) You’ll also see her work on MARVEL'S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, DC SUPER HERO GIRLS, the Emmy-Award-winning NIKO AND THE SWORD OF LIGHT, and LEGO MONKIE KID. Shaene is open to projects with impact. Heartwarming, heart-pounding, or fists-in-face impact. Honors & Awards Finalist Nominee for The Humanitas Prize, Humanitas - NIKO AND THE SWORD OF LIGHT, "The Automatron" - 2020 non-WGA Female, Disabled INNER DEMONS (Supernatural action thriller - Similar to CONSTANTINE or BLADE) In a mental hospital for the possessed, demons torment Dr. Brinkman's patients. Her cure? Invade Hell. With the help of a mysterious, battle-scarred angel, she fights the unrelenting archdemon Belthadar to stop him from unleashing his wrath on Earth. Character-driven, Science, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Magical Realism Female, Disabled Unrepped