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< Back Virtic Emil Brown virtic@artiststudioprods.com http://www.imdb.me/virticemilbrown Virtic Emil Brown is a writer/filmmaker. She is a part of the disabled community. Her recent screenplay FREE! was a recipient of Sundance Accessible Future Initiative. It is currently in development. Some of her writing credits include WILL UNPLUGGED (Randall Park), HINDSIGHT, and YOU’LL NEVER MEET MY NEW FRIENDS. Virtic’s film ON TOUR screened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival’s library. Since then, she has written and directed plays performed in festivals at EST/LA and The Vagrancy Theater. Virtic worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as the Oscar’s Press Guide Manager, handling domestic and international media outlets. Virtic recently directed two films for the Easterseals. She is currently shooting her feature documentary MLICSU starring Lee Pugsley. Virtic is also an actress who also appeared in shows like HOW TO HACK BIRTH CONTROL, THE SHIELD, and WITHOUT A TRACE. She is a Board Member of The Classical Theatre Lab. She is currently appearing as a core Foundation Worker on the new TV show LOOT. WGA Associate Member Female, BIPOC, Black, Disabled FREE! (Indie Feature Musical - think ONCE) In the final six days of their child’s life, the Bradys must confront their past, leading them to realize this is not the life God wanted for them when He gave their souls a body. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Coming-of-Age, YA, Naturalistic Female, BIPOC, Black, Disabled unrepped

< Back Mary Albanese Marydalbanese@aol.com - Manager: Justin@BohemiaEnt.com " IMDB The Black List Mary Albanese is an optioned screenwriter repped by Bohemia Group. A former arctic explorer and glass-ceiling-breaker, she is passionate about writing character-driven stories that shine a light on female empowerment, in a variety of genres. A Black List recommend writer, their reviews of her work rank her among their top 1%. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - THE WILD HEART OF ALASKA - 2024 Quarterfinalist, Final Draft's Big Break - DEVIL'S WEED - 2025 Bronze, WRPN Women International Film Festival - THE CHRISTMAS REINDEER - 2021" WGA Female, 40+ THE WILD HEART OF ALASKA Adventure, True Story, Biopic WILD meets HIDDEN FIGURES In 1978, a New York science nerd no one will hire spends her last dime on a one-way flight to the new state of Alaska to take on the dangerous man's world of mapping uncharted rock types of some of the world's most rugged and remote mountains. DEVIL'S WEED Horror GET OUT meets ROSEMARY'S BABY A women desperate to have a baby finds her miracle pregnancy is caused by a demon who sources his 'seed' from her local cemetery. THE CHRISTMAS REINDEER Rom-Com with original songs PRANCER meets E.T . - The Musical! A city woman who has lost her Christmas spirit finds a baby reindeer and must work with a love-shy country man to save it. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Romantic, Horror, Bittersweet Female, 40+ repped

< Back Bettina Lopez Mendoza bettina.lopez.mendoza@gmail.com Coverfly Having spent her childhood moving across borders, first to Mexico then to the U.S., Bettina has always been fascinated by reality as a subjective construct. Her work often centers underdog characters who challenge the limits the world imposes on them. After studying Psychology and Screenwriting at the University of Southern California, Bettina worked with and mentored under director Michael Gracey (“The Greatest Showman"), helping develop and produce works for commercials, film, theater, and animation. Most notably, it was through this close collaboration that she learned how to push the limits of cinematic storytelling through visual language. During this time, Bettina also had the opportunity to shadow Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (“Little Miss Sunshine”). These experiences led to Bettina’s first writing assignments, including adapting Tom Fletcher’s best-selling novel “The Christmasaurus,” co-writing Netflix’s animated film “Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie,” and showrunning Audible’s Ambie Award-winning fiction podcast “PREVIA: A Tech Heist,” which she also directed. Currently, Bettina oversees the fiction slate at Sonoro Media, where she has developed and story edited over 20 fiction podcasts. Most recently, Bettina completed her debut short film “Más Allá,” a live-action coming-of-innocence tale, which uses magical realism to explore the power of imagination in a young girl’s will to survive. The film is set to make its festival premiere in 2025. Honors & Awards Ambie Award for Best Fiction Podcast, The Podcast Academy – PREVIA: A TECH HEIST – 2024 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Film Fund, ScreenCraft – MÁS ALLÁ – 2023 non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx VIVAS Dark Comedy, Crime, Mystery - The White Lotus & Big Little Lies When a Y2K New Year’s Eve party leaves a dead body in its wake, four upper class women in Mexico City become the prime suspects. THIS WICKED WORLD Dark Comedy, Crime - Fargo & Burn After Reading Set in 1977 after the real-life kidnapping of Charlie Chaplin’s corpse from his grave, this dark comedy pins incompetent criminals against incompetent detectives, while a grieving widow finds bizarre comfort in what seems to be her late husband’s final practical joke. WILD ONES Coming-of-Age, Dramedy - The Kings of Summer & Hunt for the Wilderpeople When a cynical, young girl who suffers from paralyzing climate anxiety learns she was adopted from a Native American community, she sets off to find her biological grandmother. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Coming-of-Age, Animation, Magical Realism Female, BIPOC, Latinx unrepped

< Back Kimberley Ann Sparks kim@kimsparks.com http://www.kimsparks.com Kimberley Ann Sparks is an award-winning writer who works in film, television, video games, and podcasts. She’s written episodes of preschool series which have been broadcast on Treehouse, TVO, and BBC Kids. Kim’s scripts have placed in a number of screenwriting contests, including the The Writers’ Lab NYC, Page Awards, and she was selected to be a participant in the 2024 Stowe Story Labs Connemara Writers’ Retreat. Kim also writes scripts and dialogue for AAA video games, and she has worked on games such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Kim has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is also a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Prime Time Television Program and UCLA’s Professional Screenwriting Program. She teaches screenwriting at Toronto Metropolitan University. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - THE BONUS DAY - 2026 Quarter-finalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices - PILGRIMS: STORIES FROM THE MOUNTAIN - 2025 Quarter-finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Competition - PILGRIMS: STORIES FROM THE MOUNTAIN - 2025 Quarter-finalist, The Writers Lab NYC - PILGRIMS: STORIES FROM THE MOUNTAIN - 2024 non-WGA Female, 55+ PILGRIMS: STORIES FROM THE MOUNTAIN (Feature Drama) A 22-year-old physics major is called to join a pilgrimage that she doesn’t believe in and which no one has ever returned from. We follow her journey as she encounters others affected by the Pilgrims while this mysterious calling compels her up the mountain. THE BONUS DAY (Feature drama) An elderly man and woman meet at a euthanasia clinic. When their deaths are unexpectedly postponed, they spend the day together, fall in love, then must decide if they should go through with their procedures. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, YA, Children's, Animation, Bittersweet Female, 55+ I am not currently repped.

< Back Philip Pierce Agent: David Saunders, APA - dsaunders@apa-agency.com Philip Pierce is a writer/producer as well as a clinical psychologist and UCLA Lecturer. He wrote and produced the feature film BOY CULTURE based on the novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival, won 21 international awards, and was distributed theatrically. He produced the sequel BOY CULTURE: THE SERIES, which premiered at OutfestLA and the British Film Institute in London. It has won 4 Best Film Fest prizes. A number of Philip's scripts have won awards and been optioned. In addition, FREUD AND JUNG IN AMERICA was a finalist for a Sloan Grant and was selected by the WGA for a showcase performance and LOST LEGEND was selected by the WGA Latinx Committee for a scene reading and was a Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist. MOVE by Academy Award Nominee Matthew Diamond (DANCEMAKER) to which Philip contributed a rewrite was optioned by United Artists. non-WGA Male, LGBTQ+, Over 40 BIO RUN (Sci-fi Thriller - THE FUGITIVE meets CONTAGION) A doctor, suspected of starting an epidemic of a rare disease, goes on the run to clear his name and find the real perpetrator while a relentless FBI bioterrorism agent pursues him. LOST LEGEND (Action/Adventure, Latinx) Set in 1790's California, a privileged young woman, struggling to avenge the death of her father, takes on a dual identity as Zarra. Ultimately, she becomes the unlikely defender of the oppressed Indigenous people: the legend before the legend. Insprired by the public domain novel, The Curse of Capistrano . BLOOD SECRETS (Psychological Thriller) A young FBI behavioral analyst struggles with inner demons as he tracks down an escaped serial killer -- his own father. Character-driven, Science, Medical, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, International Male, LGBTQ+, Over 40 repped

< Back Amy Haeussler amy.haeussler@gmail.com https://www.amyhaeussler.com/ Coverfly Amy is an actor, writer and model...citizen! She's based in LA, but grew up in a large dysfunctional family from the Chicago suburbs (it’s pop, not soda.) As a performer, Amy has 10+ years experience writing and performing sketch and improv at theaters like The Second City-Chicago, iO-Chicago, The Annoyance and Groundlings (among all the other bars & random apartments.) Currently she can be found performing around LA and is on deck to start Sunday Company at The Groundlings Theater later this year. As a writer, Amy has written a number of pilots and screenplays that have placed in notable competitions like The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, PAGE International, Final Draft Big Break, Austin Film Fest, Finish Line Competition and more. As a person, Amy has gotten herself into a lot of sh*t, gotten herself out of a lot of sh*t and can currently be found adapting to sh*t (aren’t we all?) Honors & Awards Nicholl Fellowship - Quarterfinalist - CRAZY GIRL - 2023/2024 Page International Competition - Semifinalist - MID-30's - 2023 Semifinalist, Finish Line Competition - CRAZY GIRL - 2023 non-WGA Female CRAZY GIRL (Drama/Dark Comedy, TRAINWRECK meets GIRL, INTERRUPTED) A comedienne with bulimia and substance abuse issues struggles her way through rehab while her mother battles cancer. MID-30's (Comedy/Dark Comedy, FLEABAG meets BETTER THINGS) An alcoholic entering her “mid-30’s” awkwardly navigates love, life, sex and aging for the first time sober...while trying to pursue comedy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Dark, Naturalistic, Sketch Female 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 J Florence Jones jflorencejones@gmail.com Jaye is a queer and non-binary writer living in Los Angeles. They grew up in Minnesota and attended NYU. In 2014 they hiked all 2185 miles of the Appalachian Trail because they were too stubborn to quit. Jaye writes romantic comedies and coming-of-age stories about characters exploring the slipperiness of queer identity. Their work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, placing as a Semi-Finalist in both 2021 and 2023. Honors & Awards The Best Of The IWC - Kiss Me Like That - 2026 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - KISS ME LIKE THAT - 2021 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - KISS ME LIKE THAT - 2023 non-WGA/Caucus Only Non-binary, LGBTQ+ KISS ME LIKE THAT Feature, Romantic Comedy After finally working up the courage to come out of the closet, a gay teenager is determined to own his sexuality and slay his senior year, but he’s thrown off his axis when he falls in love with his best friend, who is – gasp! – a woman. SHAKE ME FREE FROM MY NAME Feature, Comedy-Drama Desperate to escape her crumbling life in Brooklyn, a struggling artist sets out to hike all 2185 miles of the Appalachian Trail, where the wilderness and her fellow hikers force her to confront her gender, identity, and fear of being truly seen. BOY’S LIFE Feature, Coming-of-Age A boy's plans to beat the merit badge record at summer camp are thrown for a loop when the unimaginable happens: he makes a friend. Queer, Romantic, Coming-of-Age Non-binary, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Sabrina Mansfield sabrina_mansfield@yahoo.com http://www.SabrinaMansfield.net Sabrina, aka “The New Normal Lear,” whips up 2-3 laughs a page for a greater purpose - to focus on the working class, people of color, and issues of equity. After trouncing metastatic cancer three times and surviving a lot of truly crazy medical trauma, you can believe a tame goal like becoming a professional TV writer isn’t going to scare her off. This grit and tenacity helped when she became a mother-of-five overnight as a foster parent in LA, a role she has held for over 14 years - and because of those experiences, she knows why her writing in children’s television needs to be done thoughtfully. Multi-cam is Sabrina’s super-passion. She was the first grad student at USC to shoot an original multi-cam pilot (and an episode 1) in front of a live studio audience. Because of her passion for television, she was given the opportunity to do observerships with some of TV’s most accomplished directors, like James Burrows, Pam Fryman, Gail Mancuso and Warren Hutcherson (and over a dozen others). Sabrina was recently selected for the 2024 Disability Belongs Fellowship for Writing Children’s Animation, she was a finalist for the Fred Rogers Productions Writing Fellowship and the ABC/Disney Directing Fellowship (for two years in a row!), and she is currently the Director of Events for the LA Children’s Media Association. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards - FINDING HOME - 2020 Top 15% of over 8100 Entries, Nicholl Fellowships - FINDING HOME - 2021 Finalist, Fred Rogers Productions Writing Fellowship - THE WILDWOOD SPRITES - 2024 Awarded Fellowship, Disability Belongs "Writing Children's Animation" - THE WILDWOOD SPRITES - 2024 " non-WGA Female, Disabled, 40+ MOM GENES Multi-cam a la Roseanne A no-nonsense, single Black mom, juggles raising her mischievous kids, taking care of her cantankerous, old-school father, and in her backyard cottage, guiding her tween nephew and his well-meaning but naïve, white, gay adoptive dad - who will need more help raising a Black son than he realizes. EASTSIDE PRIDE! Tween Multi-cam Sitcom Disney's A.N.T. Farm or Bunk'd When their beloved (but severely underfunded) inner-city afterschool program is at risk of shutting down, director Dee-Dee must pull together her rag-tag crew of tweens in order to win the grant that will save their special club. THE WILDWOOD SPRITES Preschool Animated Netflix's Spirit Rangers or Disney's Doc McStuffins Larch and his friends face special challenges every day at Sprite School and in the process, learn about friendship, cooperation, and how to protect and care for the forest ecosystem. BIPOC-centric, Children's, Animation Female, Disabled, 40+ unrepped

< Back Steve Holbert Steveisholbert@gmail.com Coverfly Steve comes from a long line of carneys and sex workers. He grew up in the trailer parks of Georgia’s poorest town. He paid the bills by selling food stamps and tombstones. After becoming a first-generation college student, he paid the bills hosting drag shows and doing wedding makeup. Steve moved back to the trailer park when his dad became terminally ill. He was his caregiver until his father died. Then, the state dropped two kids on his porch, and he became a foster parent to his teenage and four-year-old cousins. Now, he is a thirty-year-old grandpa. Growing up, the media always portrayed Appalachian Americans as victims, so Steve makes sure the next generation sees themselves as heroes. Then, life can finally imitate art. He writes hour TV and features that explore bi-ness, using queer teens, horror, and the South. He's had generals with Glen Mazzara, Berlanti Productions, Paramount, and others, and was a writer’s assistant for Heidi Schreck, Evette Vargas, Katie Tabaldi, and AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS. When not writing, Steve is an amateur ghost hunter. He volunteers at nursing homes, so has attended over 300 funerals. He was a classical pianist for ten years. If Pokémon were real, he'd be an ice-type gym leader. MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch School Of The Arts. non-WGA Male, LGBTQ+ EM & TOBY VS. THE GULCHES (Feature - WRONG TURN meets SHAMELESS) In this horror remix of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz , a waitress saves her runaway brother from a family of killers and learns the meaning of “home.” SLAY (Hour Drama - MEAN GIRLS meets THE LOST BOYS) A trailer park virgin sneaks off to his first Pride seeking community. But he finds a herd of killer unicorns. SCRAPS (Hour Drama - SWEENEY TODD meets SHAMELESS) A broke foster parent is losing his family’s barbecue shack – until he finds a killer, free meat supply. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, YA, Dark Male, LGBTQ+ 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 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