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< Back Michael Felker michael.felker.film@gmail.com IMDB Michael Felker is a writer, director, producer, and editor from Huntsville, Alabama. Michael is most well known for writing and directing the award winning feature film, THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, which premiered at SXSW and was released in theaters by Magnolia Pictures. Michael has also written and directed several dozen short films over the last 20 years including most recently WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY AGAIN and SAVE AND CONTINUE. Michael is also know for editing feature films THE ENDLESS, SYNCHRONIC, SPRING, SUNSET ON THE RIVER STYX, GET THE GIRL, and, most recently SOMETHING IN THE DIRT. He’s also known for editing work in TV (THE COOP, JUNK DRAWER MAGICAL ADVENTURES), content for Netflix, Universal, and Red Bull, and even in video games (Annapurna Interactive games THE LAST STOP, MAQUETTE, and TWELVE MINUTES). He's a published author (HAUNTED REELS VOL. II), a graduate of Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, an avid gamer, hiker, and lover of all things science fiction and horror. Honors & Awards Certified Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes - THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT - 2024 Critics Award, Trieste Science + Fiction - 2024 Top 50, Launch Pad - WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY AGAIN - 2018 non-WGA Male WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY AGAIN? Magical Realism Drama It's A Wonderful Life meets Tron Legacy In order to receive her estranged father’s inheritance, a young woman must beat a mysterious arcade game that replays her biggest past regrets as levels to overcome." FOMO Contained Thriller Disturbia meets The Leftovers When a new phenomenon allows people to take a pill and ascend to a new and better dimension, two teenage girls must escape a dying mall to catch the trend before the whole world disappears without them. CAT MOM Absurd Horror The Thing meets Stepmom A recently divorced mom loses her grip on her own humanity and everything she loves after a malevolent stray cat begins to replace her as the mother of her children." Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Magical Realism Male

< Back Lise Pyles lisepyles@gmail.com Lise Pyles earned SEMIFINALIST at NICHOLL and AFF (among other awards) and in 2018 was one of six writers chosen for a Black List/Women in Film Features Lab. There, she workshopped one-on-one with Oscar-winner Graham Moore (THE IMITATION GAME) and Amy Baer (MARY SHELLEY, BRIAN BANKS), and ended the week with a general at NETFLIX. Lise writes character-driven drama, historical and true event stories (original or adapted), and also enjoys lightening the mood by writing family features, YA and holiday rom-coms. In previous life chapters, Lise worked as a Department of Defense analyst, which led to world travel and nine years abroad, in Australia's Outback and Yorkshire, England. Around the edges of this career, she has held odd jobs (waitress, hotel desk clerk, substitute teacher, concierge), all of which make great grist for this writer's mill. Past publications include two books, as well as articles, short stories and essays for venues such as Denver Post, Writers Digest and Air&Space/Smithsonian Magazine. She worked as Story Editor for LIKE CLOCKWORK ENTERTAINMENT, has crewed on local (Texas) film projects and co-chaired the San Antonio Screenwriters Guild from 2014-2025. Honors & Awards Finalist, ISA Family & Holiday - A BODYGUARD FOR CHRISTMAS - 2021 Semifinalist, Stage32 Holiday Contest - THE LIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Final Draft's Big Break - SONG OF THE DOLPHIN - 2025 " non-WGA Female, 40+, 55+ INDEPENDENT LIVING Feature Drama A shy desk clerk must break through a crippling public speaking phobia in order to help an elderly genius create his legacy and to find a voice in her own life. JUMPER AND THE BONES Feature Dramedy (Adapted from novel IP) A naive oddball custodian accidentally sparks a feud with a street gang (The Bones) and must use his quirky homemade tactics to protect the nurse lady he adores and the sick little girl who depends on them both. MY HEART LIES HERE Historical Limited Series (Adapted from novel IP) In 1914 Colorado, a Scottish teen loses her father due to dangerous conditions in one of J.D. Rockefeller's mines, and to save her brother from a similar fate, she joins union mineworkers in what becomes the nation's bloodiest fight for worker rights -- the Ludlow Massacre. Character-driven, Female-centric, Western, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, YA, Limited Series Female, 40+, 55+ 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 Bruce Scivally bscivally@gmail.com IMDb Bruce Scivally is an author, filmmaker, and publisher whose career spans more than three decades in storytelling across film, television, and books. A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, he began as a business affairs assistant at Nelson Entertainent and Sovereign Pictures before writing for A&E’s Biography and producing and writing special feature documentaries on the 007 films and other film series for MGM, Fox, and Sony/Columbia. He is an award-winning screenwriter, co-author the acclaimed book James Bond: The Legacy and author of books on Batman, Superman, and Dracula in pop culture, establishing him as a respected voice in film history and pop-culture analysis. In 2022 he founded Henry Gray Publishing and has built it into a dynamic independent press that champions diverse, character-driven voices. Under his leadership, HGP has released novels, memoirs, children’s books, genre fiction, and non-fiction books. Scivally’s own work blends cinematic pacing with emotional depth, from Westerns and thrillers to nonfiction. He has taught film production at Columbia College Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Art and continues to mentor emerging creators while expanding Henry Gray Entertainment—an umbrella he is expanding for both publishing and film initiatives. As an Independent Writers Caucus member, Scivally brings his passion for craft, collaboration, and cross-platform storytelling to a community dedicated to elevating independent voices. Honors & Awards Winner, Best Feature Screenplay, Desertscape Int’l Film Festival - THE LAST STAGE - 2021 Winner, Best American Screenplay, New York Script Awards - THE LAST STAGE - 2021 Winner, Best Feature Screenplay, Golden Hollywood International Film Festival - JIMMY STEWART AND THE YETI'S HAND - 2019 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, 55+ THE LAST STAGE Feature Western - Unforgiven, The Shootist, The Grey Fox As aging gunfighter Wyatt Earp lays dying in a Los Angeles bungalow in 1929, he dreams of an ending more befitting of his past, forcing him to confront outlaws, buried guilt, and the fading myth of his own legend, while his wife struggles with losing her dearest companion. JIMMY STEWART AND THE YETI'S HAND Feature Comedy - North By Northwest, The Incredibles, Rango In 1958, a career-anxious Jimmy Stewart agrees to transport a stolen Yeti’s hand out of India, only to find himself—and his wife—embroiled in a globe-trotting chase involving vengeful monks, a moving train, and confronting fading stardom. Character-driven, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Limited Series, Bittersweet Male, 55+ unrepped

< Back Michael January Manager: Paul Addis, Ambitious Entertainment - ambitiouspma@gmail.com 818-990-8993 Born in Central California, Michael January studied drama at West Virginia University and Theater Royal in London and began his entertainment career as an actor and director in professional theater. After starting as a story analyst for studios and development executive, he wrote four action-thrillers: TO BE THE BEST, FIREPOWER, CIA II: TARGET ALEXA, and DEADLY TARGET for premiere on HBO and Showtime, the female action thriller THE HEIST for HBO and Germany’s Pro7, the romantic cop drama-thriller DER TOD IN DEINEN AUGEN (SILIENCED) starring Thomas Kretchsmann for SAT1, the Native-American themed thriller-drama WARPATH for SKY TV, a family action-comedy crime caper HOW TO CHANGE YOUR PARENTS for Beta Film, and the genre-bending rock’n’roll werewolf/teen horror film NEOWOLF for Lionsgate. He is one of the screenwriters profiled in the screenwriting documentary and companion Harper-Collins book Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Tell Their Stories and is currently developing television series and limited series. Michael has two published novels, the speculative fiction autobiography Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley and the WWII action adventure story Aces and has written six non-fiction travel books in his best-seller Favorite Castles of Europe series. His Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist script THE BOY KING'S TALE is soon to be published as a medieval YA action adventure novel. non-WGA Male, 40+, 55+ GOLDEN GATE (Period Drama Series ) An ambitious young boxer rises on his fists and wits from iron worker on the Golden Gate Bridge to "King of Nob Hill" in 1930’s San Francisco. FLASHBACK (Crime Procedural Series) A murder detective claims he solves crimes by jumping back in time, by 48 hours, 32 minutes to revisit the crime and suspects. Is he real, or a homicidal maniac? GRANDMA'S HOUSE (Horror Feature) A biracial family goes to visit grandma for the holidays, but grandma has been going through some changes since grandpa died, and just how much she’s changed will be make this their last holiday, ever. Character-driven, Thriller, Procedural, Western, Romantic, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, YA Male, 40+, 55+ repped

< Back Ben Rosen benjamin.rosen@gmail.com Coverfly Ever since Ben was forced to write the scripts for his middle school’s public access cable TV show, he's dreamed of disappointing his parents and becoming a professional comedy writer. He’s pitched jokes and story ideas to various TV shows and has been a semi-finalist or higher in the DISNEY WRITING PROGRAM, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL, SCRIPTAPALOOZA, and FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK. When he’s not performing stand-up comedy or writing about himself in the third person, Ben enjoys playing indie video games, hanging out with his family (the one he created, not the one he escaped from), and telling everyone about the rabbi from his hometown who murdered his wife. Honors & Awards Semi-finalist, Disney Writing Program – “The Office – The Bathroom” – 2007 Semi-finalist, Austin Film Festival – “Pen15 – Hot Date” – 2022 Quarter-finalist, Final Draft Big Break – “The Fruit Store” – 2013 non-WGA Male, Over 40 THE FRUIT STORE Half-hour TV comedy pilot After his startup fails, a humbled millennial is forced to swallow his pride and work at America’s favorite tech store/cult: The Apple Store. PEN15 – HOT DATE Half-hour TV comedy spec When her mom forbids her from dating the only guy in school who likes her, Maya tries to secretly go out with him without getting caught. Meanwhile, Anna tries to get a boyfriend of her own by becoming a guys’ girl. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Animation, Dark, Silly, Snarky, Naturalistic Male, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Shirley Miller shirleymillerdigsyou@gmail.com After lying to his parents that he was “just visiting” LA, Shirley worked for years on film and TV productions such as Interstellar and Silicon Valley, before graduating with an MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. While there, he received a scholarship for graduating with the highest grade-point-average (4.0) and he was also awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship worth $17,500.00 for his first-ever attempt at hour-long television. Since then, he’s won and placed in multiple fellowships, including a fresh stint on Ken Kesey’s farm in May, where he was accepted into a writing workshop led by Ronald D. Moore. His favorite color is pink, he loves to make pottery even though his skill level hasn’t much improved, he’s a formerly-licensed English teacher and currently-licensed scuba diver, and – perhaps most importantly – he’s terrified of bees because he’s never been stung by one. Honors & Awards Kesey Farm Writing Workshop (led by Ronald D. Moore) - 2025 ScreenCraft Drama Pilot - Finalist - DRY - 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Award - NERVE - 2018 non-WGA Male DO THE WORK Dark comedy Comp: BARRY An ignoramus is inadvertently recruited by an LBTQIA+ rights activist group and he quickly learns that they don't just fight for justice – they kill for it. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Satire, Dark, Snarky Male unrepped

< Back Tracy Charlton tkcharlton@gmail.com Tracy attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied English literature. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked in the film industry for several years before relocating to New York City, where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her screenplay RAISED UP was one of the winners of The Writers Lab, which is funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, and was based on a story she did in journalism school. Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. She also did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan. She is currently in pre-production for her short script EARTH ANSWERS, which was one of the winners of the WeScreenplay Short Script Lab in 2024. Shooting is scheduled for March, 2026 in San Francisco. Tracy currently lives in Marin County with her son and an emotionally needy Golden Retriever named Pickles. Honors & Awards Stowe Story Lab Connemara – CHASING SHAKESPEARE – 2025 IWC Best of List – CHASING SHAKESPEARE and BIG LIFE -- 2025 Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO – 2024 Non-WGA Female, Over 50 CHASING SHAKESPEARE Feature - YA Action-Adventure When a teenage girl's father disappears amid accusations that he stole one of the Shakespeare's First Folios, she must find him and retrieve the Folio by solving a series of Shakespeare-themed clues he left behind. NANO Feature - horror-thriller When a scientist specializing in nano technology pushes her research too far, too fast in order to save her dying husband, she inadvertently creates a monster. A monster one thousand times smaller than a raindrop who learns faster than any A.I. on the planet and quickly has the power to destroy millions. SUKIE & JESSIE’S PUBLIC PARKS TENNIS TEAM Pilot - sports comedy - BAD NEWS BEARS meets GLOW A parks and rec women's' tennis team, misfits all, will be disbanded to make room for pickleball courts if they don’t have a winning season. Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, YA Female, Over 50 unrepped

< Back Steven Vivell smvivell@gmail.com Steven Vivell is a writer and actor living it up in L.A. After a childhood in neurodivergent fantasyland, high school drama revealed he was an empath who could make human connections with theatricality. While earning his BA in Theatre Arts from LMU, his father died two weeks before his senior thesis performance, during his semester abroad in Germany. Thanks to the critical support from his fellow artists, Steven delivered his iconic monologue as the Devil. He received an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, where he discovered his gift for feedback and collaboration in the writer’s room. He writes genre-comedy hybrids, where neurodivergent characters embrace their empathy and discover their community. While it would be meaningful to win an EGOT, Steven’s dream accolade would be his own flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Honors & Awards Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - NORMAN BRODY AND THE MAGIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE - 2025 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - BEASTY AND THE BEAU - 2025 Pitch Competition Finalist, Austin Film Festival - NORMAN BRODY AND THE MAGIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE - 2023 non-WGA Male NORMAN BRODY AND THE MAGIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE Fantasy Comedy half-hour TV - BOJACK HORSEMAN meets FRASIER A nerdy psychologist helps fantasy creatures adjust to life in Los Angeles. But he must overcome his crippling social anxiety to get a life of his own. BEASTY AND THE BEAU Fantasy Comedy feature - MALEFICENT meets SHREK Bea loves being cursed into a beast, for the power to rebel against her oppressive fairytale kingdom. But after she blackmails kind Prince Beau to be her accomplice, she fears true love’s kiss will threaten her power. SILLY GOOSE Animated Comedy half-hour TV - REGULAR SHOW meets STEVEN UNIVERSE Silly Goose loves his job as town fool, so he can make people happy with laughter. But he worries if anyone finds out he gets very sad, they won’t laugh at his fun antics ever again. Character-driven, Fantasy, Animation, Magical Realism Male unrepped

< Back Garret Williams garretwilliams@hotmail.com 323-854-1893 https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0930621 Born and raised in Minneapolis, Garret began making short films in college before attending the American Film Institute's Master's program. His feature SPARK (writer/director), starring Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker, was a Sundance Filmmakers Lab project. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to Berlin (Berlinale) and many others around the world. Garret won Best Director at the Urbanworld Film Festival. Multiple film organizations have supported Garret’s screenplays. HYENAS was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab project. MUDPUPPY was a Film Independent Screenwriters Lab Project, was selected for Tribeca All Access, and was optioned by Sly Dog films. His screenplay LOST DOG was chosen for the Film Independent Screenwriters and Directors Labs, was a Fast Track project at the LA Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Screenplay and the Gordon Parks Award at the IFP Film Market. LOST DOG was also selected for the WGA Feature Writer's Access Project. Garret’s work as a Writer/Director/Producer of shorts screened at SXSW (THE RISE), New Directors/New Films at the MOMA & Sundance(Short SPARK), and a long list of festivals, domestic and international, earning multiple awards. His shorts (SPARK and BB GUN) aired on Showtime Networks. He is a member of the DGA and is a Sundance Institute Fellow, Film Independent Fellow, and Tribeca Film Institute Fellow. Garret serves as an Adjunct Professor at Occidental College, teaching Advanced Screenwriting. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black, Multi-Ethnic LOST DOG (Dramatic Thriller) Lost Dog is a character-driven thriller, set in 90s Minneapolis, about a black, jaded, Animal Control Officer and his young trainee, as they follow the twisted trail of a racist serial dog abuser and killer. MUDPUPPY (Dark Comedy) A brown comedy about a lost and lonely man who finds love in the toilet. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Limited Series, Dark, Naturalistic Male, BIPOC, Black, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

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

< Back Laura Mannino lauramannino@gmail.com http://www.lauramannino.com The Black List While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head Bitch In Charge Duchess in a school production of Twelfth Night. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. That set Laura up nicely for a life of performing stand-up, sketch, and improv at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA after graduating from NYU and UCB. Credits include Consulting Producer on MTV's Loveline with Amber Rose and Quibi's Sexology with Shan and Sketch Writer for Awestruck's Asshole Parents. Laura has also written for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital. Laura adapted her half-hour pilot, Bodice Rippers, into an audio drama. In her Substack, Flossing in the Apocalypse, Laura reflects on grief, eldest daughter syndrome, and bearing witness to systemic collapse as her perimenopausal hormones try to kill her. But it's funny. Promise! Passionate about progressive politics, Laura has written social media and voter-engagement videos for The Hometown Project, which pairs celebrities with down-ballot candidates. She also founded the grassroots gun reform group Drain The NRA, which has been covered by The New York Times, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter, and worked as a field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. Laura lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and terrier, Ruffles. Honors & Awards Fiction Podcast Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - BODICE RIPPERS Audio Drama - 2025 Comedy Semifinalist and Scholarship Winner, CineStory Foundation TV Retreat - BODICE RIPPERS - 2024 Grand Prize Winner, Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition - BODICE RIPPERS - 2023 Non-WGA/Caucus Only Female, 40+ BODICE RIPPERS Half-Hour TV Rom-Com Buddy Comedy BRIDGERTON meets HACKS with a wink & a nod to OUTLANDER When a romance fanfiction writer who prefers her laptop over the limelight helps a runaway princess in the Scottish Highlands, she’s thrust into a media firestorm and into the arms of the celebrity of her secret fantasies. STORM THE CASTLE Half-Hour TV Workplace Comedy ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets PARKS & RECREATION In this modern Robin Hood, obedient Robin returns to her hometown of Sherwood, NJ. There she finds her merry band of rogues to steal back what Sheryl Nottingham, the corrupt exec of Joust Castle, took from its workers to save her family’s legacy. BLOOD SISTERS Supernatural Comedy Feature PRACTICAL MAGIC meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD After the unexpected death of her mom, an uptight interior designer and her goth daughter tap into their secret witch powers to stop a vampire beauty influencer and a very distant relative, from taking over their small town with a witchy past. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Late Night, Sketch Female, 40+ unrepped