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< Back Terri (T.B.) Spaugh tbswriter@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3606322/ Terri Spaugh is an independent writer and story producer who grew up on the Texas-Louisiana border who also lived in Los Angeles and Chicago before rooting herself southwest of Austin. She grew up doused in mixed cultures, which serves as spice in her work. Born on her father’s birthday, she was the baby in the family and was dealt a lot of misery by her siblings. Her hero is her father, a gentle soul who worked all his life in the south Texas refineries that caused his fatal lung cancer. Acadian mixed with Scots-Irish, Terri’s family history includes her many greats-ago uncle, Daniel Boone. After a divorce, she left her teaching and moved to a small town southwest of Austin where she worked as a geophysicist manager for a Scottish firm while completing both UCLA’s Graduate Professional Screenwriting Programs. She later co-founded the Texas Film Institute, wrote a sci-fi family feature FIELDS AFIRE and multiple short films, published in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and penned several novels. She credits fortitude for changing her narrative. Honors & Awards Finalist, ISA Thriller/Horror Competition - BAYAGOULA - 2021 Semifinalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriters Competition - CLINGING TO BONE - 2022 Semifinalist, InkTip Holiday Genre Contest - MIRACLE ON MAIN STREET - 2022 Co-writer: Lise Pyles Current Member Female, Over 40, Over 55 THE LONG DARK NIGHT (Horror Thriller, Comps: ANNIHILATION, THE HEAD) A father's arctic rescue mission becomes a fight for humanity's survival when a long-buried mutagen resurfaces, forcing him to confront the sins of his past. THE LONGEST RALLY (Sports Drama, Comps: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, SOUTHPAW) A washed-up tennis player battling alcoholism and guilt must stay sober and commit to coaching a gifted but disadvantaged young player for the summer, or lose his last shot at redemption — forcing him to confront his past mistakes and rally against his inner demons. BAYAGOULA (Suspense Thriller, Comps: WIND RIVER, WINTER'S BONE) A true crime podcaster fleeing a stalker returns to her Louisiana bayou hometown, where her father's murder forces her to unravel a tangled web of community secrets and generational trauma. Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, Over 40, Over 55 unrepped

< Back Mark DeCarlo markdecarlotv@gmail.com https://www.markdecarlo.com/ The Black List Mark is a Founding member of The Second City Hollywood. Mark has written, performed and produced Emmy Award winning current event comedy for ABC’s Windy City LIVE since 2012. On the big screen, Mark produced, co-wrote (with Ryan Rowe) and stars in the animated 2025 Asymmetric Studios feature: Pinocchio & the Water of Life. Mark partnered with VES award winning VFX futurist Julian Sarmiento to found Creative Disruption Partners, www.creating3d.com, to perform recurring livestream, 4K animation sketches on the Main Stage of LA ComicCon. His 2024 animated spec pilot, Meet the Walkerz, that chronicles the adventures of funny, vegetarian Zombies, sold to Pathbender Media. Currently, Mark is seeking new comedy/animation centric management to market future work, including his spec pilot: Processing: URTH. The show leverages CDP’s below-market VFX cost and unrivaled real time MoCap animation for TV. Mark is also the voice of pie-loving Hugh Neutron in “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.” Honors & Awards Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Performer - Windy City Live 2012, 2013, 2014 Associate Member Male, Latinx, 55+ SUCKERZ (Sci-Fi, Comedy, Thriller - think DON'T LOOK UP) A NASA intern and conspiracy podcast host infiltrate a New Age guru's cabal to thwart an alien/world government alliance to enslave 5% of humanity, by raising Earth's temperature while devouring the rest. PROCESSING: URTH Workplace hard comedy - Parks & Rec , What We Do in the Shadows To survive, an alien spaceship crew of disgruntled, inept failures, who for centuries have bungled human abductions, must immediately transform Planet Earth to enable an Alien Invasion. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History, Animation, Satire, Snarky, Late Night Male, Latinx, 55+ unrepped

< Back Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly IMDB Profile Sage is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Honors & Awards Official Selection, Dances With Films - HELPER - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ LULLABY (Drama Feature) A recovering heroin addict returns home to substitute teach at her old high school and learns that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago attends the same school. SHE (Horror Feature) A troubled teen, sent to an all-girls wilderness therapy camp in Utah, must fight for survival when a mysterious female creature appears to be stalking and hunting them. WEDLOCK (Drama One Hour Episodic) Teenage best friends, Kent, a closeted gay man, and Frankie, a bisexual woman, enter a mixed-orientation “lavender” marriage in 1970, Los Angeles and struggle to stay together for the next 45 years. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Gina DeAngelis deangelis.gina.m@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2391671/ The Black List Gina DeAngelis is the youngest of ten kids who all talked at once. She started writing a book at age 8 just to get a word in, little expecting that one day, she’d have published 32 others. After a year of high school in Australia -- as far from home as she could physically get -- she studied acting, playwriting, and directing alongside history for her B.A. A professional writer for 20+ years, she holds Master’s degrees in both history and screenwriting, and won an Emmy Award (two nominations) for historical drama. In Gina’s spec features, her unlikely heroes suffer from estrangement and isolation before building diverse found families. Even her darkest stories are ultimately life-affirming. Recent releases include STORIES OF WAR, a collection of 13 commissioned documentary shorts; the indie feature EVERYTHING FUN YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO IN ALEDO, ILLINOIS, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2024, and the horror short ASK FOR HELP, which DeAngelis also directed. Her short film adaptation of the Pamela Painter story DOORS recently completed post-production and will be in festivals in 2025. DeAngelis’s work has been consistently honored by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, CineStory, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, the Austin Film Festival, Stowe Story Labs, and others. Her work has also appeared on PBS and was performed live for Queen Elizabeth II. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowships - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Winner, Virginia Screenwriting Competition - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Finalist, Film Pipeline Short Script Competition - DOORS - 2023 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH (Horror/supernatural thriller - think THE WITCH, MAMÁ, THE WIND) When her widowed mother vanishes during a blizzard in 1850s Virginia, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her vulnerable little sister, and their isolated farm against their slaveholding uncle and the torments of an angry spirit. THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS (Murder mystery/thriller - THE NAME OF THE ROSE, DOUBT) When a devout young nun suspects that the death of her mother-superior was no accident, she must identify which of her sisters is the murderer before she becomes the next victim -- while suppressing her attraction to the violent young man assigned to protect her. IF THESE WALLS COULD SHUT UP (Horror-comedy - think NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, THE HAUNTED MANSION) When a reluctant inheritor decides to sell a tourist-trap re-enactment village, the site's ghosts mount a dangerous campaign of resistance, unless she can solve a 200-year-old mystery in one night. Female-centric, Thriller, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age Female, 40+ unrepped

< 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 Michael J. Dougherty miked930@hotmail.com 323-804-0606 Blessed with Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, Michael J. Dougherty is a film person living and working in Hollywood. He is the co-founder of the ReelAbilities Film Festival: Los Angeles, entering its 4th year, and was an active member of the WGA's Disabled Writers Committee, which helped produce a PSA he wrote and directed called LOOK AROUND, meant to encourage disability inclusion in the entertainment industry. His screenplay, NO ONE IS LOOKING, about homicidal special education kids, was included on the 2020 Disability List as one of the best unproduced disability-related scripts. The son of a former Catholic priest and nun, Michael's earliest memory was his mother taking him to see E.T. while he was recovering from brain surgery, which led him to draw a clear line between the experience of art and the relief of pain. He's learned everything about love from Charlie Brown's pining for the Little Red-Haired Girl, everything about courage from Frida Kahlo, and everything else from Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, which confirms Michael's great belief: "If we're all going over the edge - and we are - shouldn't we laugh on the way down?" non-WGA Male, Disabled, Over 40 NO ONE IS LOOKING (Dark Comedy/Thriller) Sam, a physically-challenged high-schooler, who kills a bully and thinks he got away with it because no one would believe a kid in a wheelchair would be capable of that, must find the bully’s missing head before anyone finds out about the murder. I MIGHT BE WRONG (Dark Comedy/Melodrama) Frankie, a lonely artist born with a degenerative disability, falls in love for the first time, but it's with a substitute teacher at her school who may or may not be a child molester. YOUR PET & YOU (Sci-Fi) Victor, a propaganda filmmaker who works for a medical facility that turns the disabled into house pets, must fight his way out of the system and rescue his autistic sister after he has become a "pet" himself. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Dark Male, Disabled, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Christopher J. Valin christophervalin@gmail.com 951-529-1596 http://www.christophervalin.com Coverfly Christopher J. Valin is a writer, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. In addition to his novels, he’s written and inked for independent comic book companies, written scripts for production companies, and has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as The Future Chronicles, Beyond the Stars , and Peter David's The Fans Are Buried Tales . His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won numerous awards and contests, including the BIBA for the first book in the Raptors superhero series, written (as CJ Valin) with Jaime Castle. Christopher received his master's degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line , is the expansion of his master's thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas. Honors & Awards Winner, Golden Age of Television Pilot Competition - THE NEMESIS - 2010 Winner, Scriptwriters Network Producers Outreach Program - SECRET DISCIPLE - 2000 Second Place, TVWriter.com People's Pilot contest - STAR ACADEMY 3013 - 2016 non-WGA Male, 55+ SIDEKICK: THE RED RAPTOR FILES (Superhero TV Drama Pilot - TITANS meets THE BOYS: GEN V ) The city's greatest hero has disappeared and it's up to his teenage sidekick to find him. But Red Raptor isn't prepared for the challenges he must face when he has to go up against their most dangerous foe without his partner. STAR ACADEMY 3013 (Sci-Fi Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE ORVILLE meets LOWER DECKS) The galaxy's best and brightest attend the Star Academy...and so do these guys. They may just experience great adventures some day, if they can survive until graduation. THE NEMESIS (Superhero Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE BOYS meets DESPICABLE ME) Alex's day was bad enough when his nemesis, Eaglestar, revealed to his girlfriend that he was a super-villain. But things go from bad to catastrophic when the other members of his evil league of villains decide to kill him for revealing their plan for world domination. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, YA, Animation, Dark Male, 55+ 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 Saiya Floyd saiya.floyd@gmail.com https://saiyafloyd.com Saiya Floyd is a Japanese-American screenwriter. As a kid, she was too shy to talk to people, so she made up stories in her head. She had so much fun that she decided to make this her career and went to study at Boston University. She graduated with a degree in Film and Television with a focus on screenwriting. (She learned to how to talk to people somewhere along the way). In her work, Saiya explores new perspectives in historical, fantasy, and sci-fi stories. Her scripts are dramas, and often female-led. Through heightened worlds, she uncovers traits that make us the most human. She has been a finalist at the Austin Film Festival, a winner at WeScreenplay, and placed in the Launch Pad Top 50. Her short play Five Star First Date was part of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s NuWorks Festival. When not writing, Saiya practices martial arts, cooks, and dreams of traveling to new places. She is interested in history, folklore, and mythology. non-WGA Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic THE DEVIL'S BROOD (Historical pilot - VIKINGS meets THE WHITE QUEEN) The ambitious daughter of Henry I must navigate court politics, fight sexist nobles, and defy her own family in order to secure her rightful position as England’s first Queen. A THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES (Historical Action Pilot – LEVERAGE meets WARRIOR) San Francisco, 1925: A headstrong Japanese woman runs afoul of politicians, captains of industry, and gangsters in her quest to pay her father bloody retribution for betraying and abandoning her mother decades earlier. Anthology series inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly . THE TRIDENT EXTRACTION (Sci-fi Feature – ROGUE ONE meets OCEAN'S 11) After her mission to rescue two scientists and their water producing machine goes horribly wrong, a war-weary colonel teams up with the scientists’ grieving daughter to assemble a band of rebels, steal the machine back from an oppressive regime, and save their parched planet. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

< Back Dave Kagno dave@interlakenmedia.com Coverfly Dave Kagno grew up in a suburb of Boston and quickly learned that being pragmatic and logical was a good way to avoid facing his feelings. Since then, he’s found a way to emote vicariously through the characters he creates on the page. Still inspired by the 80s films of his youth, like Stand by Me, he writes coming-of-age dramas and fantasies that thematically focus on finding strength through family and friends. He’s written a number of screenplays, short stories, a pilot, and recently finished his first novel. He’s also co-produced two short films: Bitsy Bites Back (2022) and How to Survive Your Parents: Where do you want to Eat? (2019). While Dave has found a home in the more temperate weather of the SF Bay Area, he does on occasion long to hear the word “wicked” used indiscriminately by someone who is incapable of pronouncing “ER” sounds. Awards & Honors PAGE Awards - Semifinalist - EHLO - 2024 CineStory Foundation - Semifinalist - WE'RE All F@&K!NG MORONS - 2024 Final Draft Big Break - Top 5 - The Legend of The Hope - 2022 non-WGA Male, 40+ EHLO Feature: Drama/Fantasy/Family - A Monster Calls Struggling with his parent’s divorce, a young boy uses a magic blanket to travel into other people's dreams, only to find the truth about himself, the rift between his parents and the healing power of imagination. THE LEGEND OF HOPE Feature: Action Adventure/Drama/Family - The Goonies meets The Deadliest Catch When the headstrong daughter of a fisherman steals her father's crab boat to chase a 150-year-old, cursed treasure, she finds she may have to let go of the thing she cares about most in order to save her town and family. WE'RE ALL F@&K!NG MORONS Pilot: Drama - Mr. Robot/The Wire Tired of watching his loved ones getting sucked into the vacant world of compulsive shopping, a reclusive anarchist, dedicated to destroying the titans of e-commerce, recruits an army of marginalized gig-workers into his revolution using a mobile app. Character-driven, Fantasy, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Animation, Limited Series, Bittersweet Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Christina Hulen chulen27@gmail.com Lawyer: Sarah Lerner - Katz, Golden, Lerner: 310-264-2163 https://christinahulen.weebly.com/ Coverfly Christina Hulen is an award-winning Writer / Director / Producer. Her female-centered work has won the Meryl Streep-funded Writers Lab and was a Top 10 female-written script in the Nicholl Fellowship. Her script, A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE was announced as a winner of the IWC “Best Of” screenwriting competition in its inaugural year. The script is currently in pre-production at New North Pictures with producers Charlotte Rothwell and Nicola Pearcey attached. Chrisina has been a selected participant to the CineStory Feature Lab as well as the Stowe Story Lab. She was the recipient of the Arch and Bruce Brown literary Fellowship and received a $25,000 grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation to help fund her latest directorial project EVERYTHING'S FINE. which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. EVERYTHING'S FINE has garnered 14 Jury prizes to date. As a producer, she was part of the award-winning independent features A MARINE STORY and SHELTER, which won the GLAAD award for best Narrative feature limited release. For television, she was a producer on the final season of BRUNCH WITH BRIDGET for the LOGO channel. Christina writes and directs across genres, but holds a special place in her heart for historical dramas featuring LGBTQ+ storylines. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LA MAUPIN- 2024 Finalist, Cannes Screenwriters List - LA MAUPIN - 2024 The Women's List - WARBIRDS - 2024 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE (BOYS DON'T CRY meets THE IMITATION GAME) At the turn of the 19th Century, a controversial yet brilliant British military surgeon must battle detractors who would subvert his pioneering reforms while maintaining a secret that could end his career. He is a woman. LA MAUPIN (LA VIE EN ROSE meets AMADEUS) Born the daughter of a servant in the court of Louis the XIV, a brilliant young woman uses sex and the sword on her journey to escape a death sentence and become the most celebrated opera singer in France: La Maupin. WARBIRDS (HIDDEN FIGURES meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN) This high-flying WWII adventure follows a naive farm girl leaving the only life she's ever known to chase her dream of joining the elite Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), only to discover that dream threatened when she falls for a fellow female recruit. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Historical/Alternative History, Naturalistic, International Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Megan Rees meganlrees@gmail.com Coverfly IMDB Profile Megan once drove 3 murderers to a museum in a Honda Accord. Another time she helped a passenger snap back from a catatonic state on the subway floor. She writes female-led TV projects about wounded healers who are reluctantly pulled into saving society from destruction by the status quo. Her multi-accoladed pilot, Hot Town, is based on her grassroots work in community emergency care. So is Hot Flash, but the protagonist therapists also happen to be menopause-onset witches. With an interest in changing the industry from the outside in, Megan founded a community of women and nonbinary emerging screenwriters 40+ which now has over 500 members in 6 continents. She has collected data on accomplishments, arranged several industry speakers, and received donations from all the major screenwriting companies. Honors & Awards Finalist, Athena Film Festival Writers' Lab - Hot Town - 2023 Semifinalist, The Writers Lab - Hot Town - 2023 Semifinalist ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship - Hot Town - 2022 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ HOT TOWN drama pilot When a charged video of her altercation with a cop goes viral, the captain of Oakland's only all-female fire crew must fight a corrupt city government that threatens to disband them. HOT FLASH fantasy comedy pilot When her first hot flash causes her to inadvertently bewitch her students and colleagues, a righteous school psychologist must join forces with a coven of fellow menopause-onset witches to learn to control her powers in exchange for helping them pull off a series of heists centuries in the making. Character-driven, Female-centric, Snarky Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped