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< Back Timothy Mallon timothy.mallon87@gmail.com https://timothy-mallon.com/ Coverfly The Black List Timothy's work examines the intersection of mental health and relationships. Drawing from personal experience, he's passionate about using authentic storytelling to explore how mental health struggles affect the human condition. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot - Semifinalist -TIME ZONE - 2024 non-WGA Male, Disabled TIME ZONE International Police Procedural, Recurring Drama - The Bridge , Southland , Line of Duty Three different cities and three seemingly unrelated crimes propels the detectives investigating them into a multinational conspiracy. HELLWATER British Neo-Western, Recurring Drama - Tin Star , Longmire , Dark Winds A mixed-race ex-soldier returning to exact vengeance on his father's killer and save his family's rural British farm from financial ruin. Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Anthology, Dark, Naturalistic, International Male, Disabled unrepped

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

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

< Back Joey Clift joeyclift@gmail.com Chris Coggins - Heroes And Villains Entertainment http://www.joeyclift.com IMDB Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, TV writer, director, Emmy-nominated producer, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because as a kid he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. Since then he has learned that this is not true – and his comedy style reflects that. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, and Comedy Central. As a television writer Joey has written for shows such as the 7x Emmy-nominated Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali and Alma’s Way on PBS, New Looney Tunes and Lego Ninjago: Decoded on Cartoon Network, and Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon. Joey Clift created, directed, and wrote Gone Native, a Webby Award-winning Comedy Central Digital series featuring many of today’s top Native American comedians, and his short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum. Joey is also the creator of the LA Underground Cat Network, a 40,000-member strong online community for Los Angeles comedians to share cute pictures of their cats. He’s kind of a cat guy. Honors & Awards Yes And Laughter Lab | Winner | Gone Native - 2019 The Black List’s Indigenous List | Listed | Bunker Boss - 2020 WGA Pow! Animated Comedy Short Film A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow. Repped

< Back Elizabeth Ditty izzi.ditty@gmail.com - Rep: Seth Nagel 816-547-8990 Having grown up on Disney & Days of Our Lives, Elizabeth Ditty fell for rule-bending escapism & fairytale love stories early on. Now she writes across genres about earnest characters struggling through coming-of-middle-age crises (& usually finding romance along the way). She's a former Story Incubator fellow and has been an Austin Film Festival semifinalist. Elizabeth is based in Kansas City where she's raising two rule-bending children of her own. She’s repped by Seth Nagel. non-WGA Female, 40+ THAT BITCH Feature | Horror Comedy OFFICE SPACE x THE EXORCIST When three burned-out coworkers are kidnapped by their toxic boss, they must troubleshoot their way to escape before she feeds them to her demon-possessed corgi. 'TIS THE GODDAMN SEASON Feature | Christmas Romantic Comedy IT'S CHRISTMAS, CAROL! x SWEET HOME ALABAMA When she returns to her Christmas-obsessed hometown for the first time in 15 years, a soap opera star on the verge of a career breakthrough must face the lover she left behind — and whether she made a mistake all those years ago. THE FAMILY JEWELS Feature | Dramedy THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU x SABRINA In the days before their mother’s funeral, a newly-jilted former trust fund kid leaves her siblings in the lurch when she embarks on an emergency road trip to discover the truth about her parents’ marriage, her mother’s massive jewelry collection, and herself. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Horror, Coming-of-Age Female, 40+ repped

< Back Jeremy Palmer Jeremy_Palmer@rocketmail.com http://JeremyWritesWordsGood.com Jeremy Palmer died once. But he came back. Along with temporary death, his 4 open heart surgeries also pointed him toward a career in disability and special education advocacy, culminating when Jeremy Palmer Day became an actual thing in Denver. Jeremy enjoys telling stories about outsiders courageously transcending barriers to accomplish the unthinkable. He received an MFA from USC in Writing for Screen & Television, the Sloan Screenwriting Grant, and the Tribeca Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize. His first feature, DETAINED, with Kinogo Pictures, is currently in post-production. He also likes Legos. non-WGA Male, Disabled THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES (Historical Drama Feature - A BEAUTIFUL MIND/THE IMITATION GAME/THE KINGS SPEECH) While recovering from World War I, Dr. Freddy Banting battles insecurities, lingering PTSD, and credit-hungry colleagues in his triumphant struggle to bring the miracle drug Insulin to those dying from Diabetes in the 1920s. THE ZIPPER CLUB (Autobiographical Dramedy Feature - THE BIG SICK/THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES) A young wife is plunged into unknown territory when her husband needs open-heart surgery. She's forced to confront life & death medical decisions in hope of proving her “adulting” abilities to his imperious mother-in-law and, most of all, to herself. STANDARD DEVIATION (Horror Feature - THE FACULTY/LITTLE MONSTERS) Damon is having a bad day. He hates his teaching job. His ex-girlfriend is engaged. And an experimental “brain drink” has turned the students into cannibalistic monsters. Now, Damon must rely on his Special Ed class if he and his colleagues want to live to see the final bell. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History Male, Disabled unrepped

< Back Paul Zeidman Angelo Rocha - Hazard Talent http://maximumz.blog Paul Zeidman is an award-winning screenwriter who loves to create tales of thrilling adventure that take the audience on a rollercoaster ride of high-octane fun and excitement they can’t wait to get back in line for as soon as it’s over. Paul is open to collaborating, original pitches, script polishing and doctoring. He also hosts The Creative Writing Life podcast, published the GO AHEAD & ASK screenwriting books, and has been running the screenwriting blog Maximum Z since 2009. When not working on scripts, Paul also enjoys reading comic books, running long-ish distances, and making what could possibly be the best pecan pie west of the Mississippi. Paul’s day job is doing traffic reports on the radio, and no - he doesn’t fly in the helicopter. non-WGA/Caucus Only Male, 55+ THE IRON HORSE OF LUCY STEELE Western-adventure After a gang of ruthless outlaws steals her locomotive, a fiery engineer relentlessly pursues them across the frontier to prevent the biggest heist of the 19th century. FAZOOM! Fantasy-comedy On the run from a tyrannical wizard, a novice witch from a fantastical realm ends up stranded without her powers in the least magical place of all - New Jersey. Western, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Silly, Slapstick Male, 55+ repped

< Back Alexa Oona Schulz alexaschulz@mac.com http://alexa-schulz.com Alexa Oona grew up in Hamburg, Germany, with the handed-down responsibility for the Holocaust, but more specifically with a Nazi grandfather who after the war worked for the church as a deacon in youth exchange programs with teenagers from Africa and the Arab world – her mother calls him a hypocrite; Alexa Oona calls him a complex character. A Los Angeles resident since 2007, Alexa Oona writes in English and German and is fluent in Spanish. She is passionate about crime (writing crime that is) – but has also been paid for dramedy writing - which proves that even Germans can be funny! Alexa Oona's produced writing credits include TV court show episodes and a prime-time feature for ZDF (Germany) as well as numerous documentaries (e.g. for ARTE) that she directed. In 2006, her award-winning documentary début WEEKEND WARRIORS, a humorous film that follows the lives of four German players of American-style football in Berlin, was theatrically released in Germany by one of the largest multiplex chains. non-WGA Female, Over 40 ANDIE FROM GERMANY (Short-form Serialized Series - Dark Comedy) A failing but success-obsessed German actress gets more than she expected after stealing a dead Hollywood starlet’s identity; now she has to successfully nail her lines and a criminal scheme. AMERICAN CRIME: MEXICO CITY (Hourlong Procedural Series Pilot - Police Drama ) When a PTSD-afflicted Special Agent is paired with a carefree FBI linguist to solve American crimes in Mexico City, she is thrust into solving the mysterious case of a deadly sound attack while struggling to navigate cultural differences. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Historical/Alternative History, International Female, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Jude Roth 1juderoth@gmail.com 310.621.1697 http://www.juderoth.com The Black List After spending time at the Berkshire County jail where her mother was Deputy Sheriff, tween Jude started a diary with this entry: “Last night I had my first dance (to Jingle Bell Rock) with a boy, an inmate at the jail’s Christmas party. His name is Smitty, he starts fires, and mom says he escaped.” Instead of joining the hunt for him (or hiding), Jude began exorcising her bemusement and bewilderment at life by writing personal, character-driven stories often set against big-world backdrops. Jude's a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is an award-winning TV/feature drama writer. As an indie filmmaker, she wrote and EP’d a scripted drama about an undocumented day laborer that PBS and Latino Public Broadcasting acquired (twice). She's also won “Best Screenplay” at La Femme Int'l Film Festival and has had TV pilots featured on The Black List, The Black List Disability List, and WeForShe WriteHer List, the latter annually featuring 20 unproduced pilots selected from hundreds of nominations from industry executives and creatives. She's one of only 6 writers chosen for the 2019 Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab, was a finalist for the HUMANITAS New Voices in TV award, and is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Her scripts have advanced in contests such as Austin Film Festival (semifinalist), Writers Lab supported by Meryl Streep (semifinalist), PAGE (top 10), Writers Network/Fade In (8 quarterfinalist projects in one year), Slamdance (top 25), and Cinestory (semifinalist). Fate also once thrust her into working in TV development at Skydance Media where she got to partake in how the proverbial sausage is made - and it was amazing (thanks, Fate!): The team there loves writers and it rocked. To relax, Jude eats pizza all over LA, practices her baseball pitching skills (just in case she gets called up by the Red Sox or Dodgers one day), pets every dog she can, and worships at the altar of "Niles" in FRASIER reruns. Honors & Awards Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab - HOMEFRONT - 2019 WeForShe WriteHer List - SINS OF THE FATHER - 2018 Audible Development - Finalist - THE STING - 2021 non-WGA Female THE ASSETS (Spy thriller) After China executes dozens of CIA assets on Chinese soil, a reinstated CIA officer puts a dangerous revenge plan into action as her colleague's crisis of conscience threatens to bring her, the plan, and the Agency down. HOMEFRONT (Drama) Struggling to salvage their post-military lives in America’s south, four very different women combat veterans turn to each other for support they can’t find elsewhere. But when the most vulnerable among them gets into serious trouble, the new friends close ranks to help her – risking their public and private lives. SINS OF THE FATHER (Geopolitical thriller) A U.N. human rights worker discovers the truth about her beloved father's deadly identity and sets out to right the crimes he committed. Character-driven, Thriller Female unrepped

< Back Conor Dowling cdowling23@yahoo.com Conor is a writer, filmmaker, and creative media producer from Dublin with a Master's degree in Feature Film Production. Conor loves all things horror, folklore and comedy! He is developing an animated series with Ink & Light Studios. He recently optioned an original feature screenplay with Wide Eye Films. Conor's screenplay DARA MCCOOL was awarded development funding from Screen Ireland and won a bursary to attend Stowe Story Labs in Vermont. Conor was also selected as a screenwriting mentee of BAFTA-winning writer Will Collins (Wolfwalkers) for a year long mentorship. In 2024, Conor launched Gemini Dragon, a creative IP development company focused on storytelling across film, TV, podcasting, and graphic novels. He is an award-winning podcaster, known for his hit show Fad Camp. He has written, directed, & produced numerous projects for RTÉ, TG4, and NGOs. His indie shorts & specs have gotten accolades at competitions & festivals worldwide. Conor was awarded Arts Council funding for two novel manuscripts, MONUMENTAL and THE OUTER CIRCLE which was shortlisted for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair in 2020. His directorial feature debut mockumentary THE LIGHT OF DAY screened at the Galway Film Fleadh and IFI Horrorthon. Conor has also directed factual entertainment, documentaries, and children’s TV for RTÉ and RTÉ Jr. A skilled camera operator, stills photographer, and video/sound editor. Honors & Awards Top 25, Save The Cat - DARA MCCOOL - 2021 Screen Ireland Bursary Stowe Story Labs - DARA MCCOOL 2021 Semi Finalist Stage 32 Search for New Voices in Animation - DARA MCCOOL - 2021 non-WGA Male DARA MCCOOL Animated, Fantasy, Comedy - How To Train Your Dragon His mother is a magical deer, his brother is the most legendary warrior-poet in all of Irish mythology, and his father has all the knowledge of the world. Yet somehow Dara, an unassuming tailor, is their only hope in the prophetic Great Fight. THE OTHER COUPLE Contained Horror - Funny Games meets Your Sister's Sister ) A struggling couple go to a secluded farmhouse for a long weekend away, but on their first night, they discover another couple staying there in secret who pose a threat to their relationship and their lives. Horror, Coming-of-Age, Animation Male unrepped

< Back T. Barclay Spaugh tbswriter@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3606322/ Terri Barclay Spaugh is an award-winning screenwriter and published author whose work spans screenplays, novels, poetry, journalism as well as teaching. Her award winning YA Fantasy feature, FIELDS AFIRE, garnered several top awards. A graduate of UCLA's Screenwriting Program and Advanced Screenwriting Program, as well as Rice University's Creative Writing Program, she brings both academic rigor and industry experience to her craft. Her science and history background informs the authenticity and depth of their storytelling across genres. As a recognized WGA West mentor, she has guided several Academy Award-nominated screenwriters, including Eric Heisserer (ARRIVAL), Marcelo Mitnik (CHAU), and Shawn Otto (HOUSE OF SAND & FOG). Her industry expertise extends to her role as former features writer for Creative Screenwriting magazine and founder of the Texas Film Institute Screenplay Competition. Her scripts have earned recognition in multiple competitions and her industry standing is reflected in her tenure as a finalist judge in international screenwriting contests for well over a decade. She has been a work-for-hire writer on 6 feature projects. Currently writing and developing in multiple genres, her focus lies in political thrillers and when she needs a breather in rom-coms. She continues to develop high-concept projects while mentoring the next generation of screenwriters. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, FILMMATIC DRAMA SCREENPLAY AWARDS, S10 - The Longest Rally, 2025 Semifinalist, STAGE 32 HOLIDAY MOVIE SCREENWRITING AWARD - The Lights Before Christmas, 2023 Finalist, ISA FAMILY & HOLIDAY - A Bodyguard for Christmas, 2021 non-Member/Caucus only Female, Multi-ethnic, 55+ DRIFT Grounded Horror, Alien, 30 Days of Night An icebreaker captain's rescue mission to a sinking Arctic station becomes a last-ditch sacrifice when he discovers the shape-shifting plague has gone airborne. CLINGING TO BONE Psych Thriller, Gone Girl, Girl on the Train A woman battling dissociation hunts her best friend's ritual killer, defying a psychiatrist who insists he's a delusion—but the killer is real, shares her past trauma, and wants her dead next. 2 WAYS OF THE GUN Revisionist Western, True Grit, Logan After a gang of slavers murders his family and kidnaps his half-sister, a grief-stricken young man must master the two ways of the gun—uncontrolled rage or calculated skill—to survive the hunt and confront the infamous flesh trader known as Ghost. Science, Crime, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Slapstick Female, Multi-ethnic, 55+ unrepped

< Back Aminah Hughes sheherself@aminah.com.au http://www.aminah.com.au/film Aminah grew up in Western Australia and spent eight years as a travelling creative in Europe before immigrating to the US. Her father was a journalist and conman who once interviewed Muhammad Ali. Her mother was a theatre actress, who chose not to raise her in the theatre, much to Aminah’s disappointment. She spent her youth as a classical flautist, poet, DJ, theatre actor and film reviewer before becoming a roots musician, music journalist, photographer and filmmaker. Her day jobs have included stints serving Justices at the Supreme Court library, as the Attorney General's research assistant at the Department of Justice, and as a covert writer of witness statements, working alongside state and federal police. The theme at the heart of her writing, from poetry to screenplays, is trauma recovery. In 2020, Aminah was accepted as a member of the Australian Directors Guild and in 2021, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has worked on features for Warner Bros, Universal, Disney, MGM, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures and Netflix, as a Scripting Editor in dubbing. Hailed by Musical Notes Global (New York) as “a true Renaissance woman” she has won local and international awards as a screenwriter, director, songwriter and musician. Aminah appears on fourteen albums and has recorded vocals on various productions, including highly anticipated game, Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, based on the popular NBCUniversal Television Series. Honors and Awards Cinequest Screenwriting Competition , Current Semifinalist - WE CAN NEVER GO BACK - 2023-2024 (co-write with Dylan Kussman) Austin Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition , Semifinalist - THE RUBICON - 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest, Winner - THE RUBICON - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE INSIDE OF A SHELL Feature drama/magic realism After a troubling death, an aspiring artist must grapple with intrusive dissociative experiences in order to confront the trauma of her abusive past. WE CAN NEVER GO BACK Short drama In a cabin on the high desert, two desperate men seek refuge from a viral mass-extinction event. Forced to navigate their diametrically opposed plans for survival, they must overcome a lurking threat of violence if they are to emerge from the crisis with their humanity intact. THE RUBICON Short drama/magic realism An independent woman comes to the realization that she is in an abusive relationship, betokened by a ballerina in a painting. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Bittersweet, Magical Realism Female, 40+ unrepped