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< 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 Gabe Berry gabe.m.berry@gmail.com 574-527-8095 Coverfly From unshowered rock bands to traveling the country training surgeons with cadavers, Gabe’s writing is inspired by real life and death. His character-driven stories entertain and normalize mental illness and LGBTQIA+ relationships. Honors & Awards Six Scripts in top 1%, Coverfly - 2024 PAGE Awards - Finalist - DEAD MELODY - 2024 Atlanta Film Festival - Finalist - THE PURPOSE OF A LIGHTHOUSE - 2023 non-WGA Male, 40+ DEAD MELODY DONNIE DARKO meets SING STREET Formaldehyde and ancient mummification techniques are not enough to keep a grieving teen from decomposing before he can leave his mark on the world. THE PURPOSE OF A LIGHTHOUSE LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE meets NEBRASKA with all female characters A dying, anxiety-ridden woman uses cartoon action figures and a cardboard box to survive a road trip to the country’s smallest lighthouse. NEXT SEMESTER THE SKELETON TWINS meets THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN A down-on-his-luck dad struggles to find purpose when left with no choice but to move into a college dorm room with his undelighted daughter. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Psychological, Coming-of-Age, Bittersweet Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Yeni Alvarez Manager: Will Swift, Arsenal Media - swifty@arsenalmediallc.com (323) 424-7647 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023337/ Google "Multi-Cultural" and you get Yeni Alvarez. Yeni was born in Cuba and escaped with her parents to Panama when she was 10. She was smuggled via Rio Grande into the US and grew up in the most Cuban of neighborhoods, Hialeah, where stores display signs that read “We speak English.” She studied theater in NY and Miami and paid for college by working weekends as a children’s party princess, all while learning makeup techniques from a transgender best friend. Yeni later moved to LA to be an actress, booking her first audition for the highest-rated sitcom in Spanish Television, and later her voiceover career bloomed when she booked the Spanish Female voice of Disney Theme Parks. (She's the Spanish voice that tells you to "keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times.") Yeni is fluent in three languages, writes in two, and dabbles in Klingon. Her worldview informs her screenwriting, creating stories and characters that span the entirety of the human experience. Plenty of people can imagine fish-out-of-water stories, but few have lived one as fearlessly – and humorously – as Yeni. She is currently developing multicultural comedy, sci-fi, and animation properties that celebrate human diversity and the most powerful force on Earth: Laughter. non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx AQUA TOFANA (Period feature) 17th Century Italy was plagued by the deaths of hundredths of abusive husbands. They all had one thing in common. Very well scented wives. Enter Julia Tofana, the profumiera saint and savior of would be widows. TESLA AND THE TINY TITANS (Animated TV Series - similar to JIMMY NEUTRON but with Einstein and Tesla) Mostly true tales of steampunk inventions by the kids who would grow up to be titans. DIVERSITY HIRE (Half Hour Comedy Sitcom) Afraid of losing his job in Hollywood, a washed up Jewish writer hires his Latina dog walker to play the role of his writing partner. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Sci-Fi, Children's, Animation, Limited Series, International Female, BIPOC, Latinx unrepped

< Back Craig T. Williams redwallproductions@gmail.com http://www.redwallproductions.com/ A native New Yorker, Craig is a writer and producer at Red Wall Productions, a film production company he founded over twenty years ago with his wife and partner of 22 years, Rosalyn Coleman Williams. Together, they have created over 50 film projects, including features, documentaries, and narrative short films. His journey landed him his first staff writing job on the hit TV show "TERROR LAKE DRIVE" on ALLBLK, an AMC Streamer. Craig was part of the prestigious Warner Brothers Discovery TV Writer’s Program. His feature film “Black Boys Don't Sew” has Academy Award Winner Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon attached as Executive Producers. Craig has many scripts in various stages of development including the award winning one-hour TV pilot “How Ya Like Me Now,” about the ‘80s rap rivalry between Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J. A one hour mystery procedural “The Connectors,” set in the Bronx, 2 women who discover they were born on the same day to the same father, create an agency that reconnects lost family. Honors & Awards Warner Brothers Discovery All Access TV Writers Program (2021) Gotham Film and Media - “Series Creator to Watch” IFP Episodic Lab non-WGA Male, Black, 55+ CALL ME DADDY (half hour comedy) Tired of waiting for Mrs. Right, an emotionally stunted 30 year old man decides to have a baby on his own to be the father he never had. BLACK BOYS DON'T SEW (feature drama) An untreated bipolar artist discovers his 11 year-old nephew has been diagnosed with the same illness, he kidnaps him to show him a life free of pills Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Procedural Male, Black, 55+ Repped

< Back Thomas R. Schrack thomas.r.schrack@gmail.com Jason Bellitto, Citizen Skill Management https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12549162/ Coverfly Thomas Schrack grew up on Long Island, where he and his brothers were always up to some kind of shenanigans—whether at school, on the job, or out on the water—sparking his lifelong love for crafting comedic adventures. Later in life, after exploring the world's most corrupt corners as a fraud investigator for a mega consulting firm, Thomas finally broke free from corporate life, reclaiming his soul to tell optimistic and nostalgic stories for the screen. Trained by Roadmap Writers and recognized in top contests like Nicholl, PAGE, and AFF, Thomas is now channeling his energy into developing a TV show with a production company, writing for a seasoned Hollywood director, and creating short-form comedy and a podcast for a small studio. He's proudly represented by Citizen Skull Management. non-WGA Male NATTY LIGHT ( Feature | Coming-of-Age Teen Comedy ) In a desperate attempt to impress his standoffish brother before he leaves for college, an impulsive high school freshman goes to epic lengths to secure a case of beer for the final senior party of summer. THE KINGS OF SUMMER meets SUPERBAD. THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND ( Feature | Prohibition Comedy ) To revive his hungover grandson, an aged Prohibition hero spins a drunken fairytale of rescuing their town from destruction after a shipwrecked rum-runner set off a whirlwind of trouble in 1927. THE PRINCESS BRIDE meets THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER. Inspired by real events. SKITCHING (Feature | Drama/Comedy) When his ride to a skateboard competition bails on him, a penniless teen has 60 minutes to scratch together $300 for another ride or get stuck in the city he desperately wants to leave, forever. MID90s meets DOPE. Character-driven, Coming-of-Age, YA, Satire, Silly, Slapstick, Snarky Male

< Back Helena Zhen helenazhen1@gmail.com 917-270-5806 Coverfly Helena Zhen an actor/writer/director whose short films have played worldwide. She's been nominated for a DGA student filmmaking award, won one of the top writer/director awards given at NYU, and garnered a chance to work with the late, great Wes Craven as an up-and-coming director. Her scripts have won the Disney Writing Fellowship and the NexTV Grand Prize while other screenplays have been finalists at top-tier contests, such as Sundance, Tracking Board Launchpad, and Austin. She has just completed an Acting program at UCLA. Her brand of writing tends towards high-concept, commercial fare with an edge of indie. While her writing is fairly diverse, she is drawn to grounded sci-fi and elevated genre material. non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander EX HUMANA (Sci-Fi TV Drama - WESTWORLD meets ALTERED CARBON) In the near future, a government health agent learns that the nanobots that everyone now uses to monitor their health has become self-aware and is editing out human traits to create the next stage of human evolution. COLONY 14 (TV Crime Drama – YELLOWSTONE meets SONS OF ANARCHY) An undercover FBI agent infiltrates a secretive group of off-the-grid survivalists intent on overthrowing the government and starting the next Civil War. THE STORY OF YOU (Feature Drama – PACHINKO meets BACK TO THE FUTURE) After the death of her father, a woman gets spirited back in time and must make the right choices in a choose-your-own-adventure style quest in order to return to her life as well as those of her parents. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander unrepped

< Back Joseph Mwamba JoeMightLikeTV@gmail.com http://www.Telemazing.com Coverfly Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's recently a 2024 Disney Fellowship Finalist, named ISA's Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch, and wrote an episode as a Writers' Assistant for Season 2 of Netflix’s upcoming action anime TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL. Prior, he was the Writers’ Assistant for Audible's A STRANGE CASE and Writers' PA for Netflix's YOU & Apple TV's THE AFTERPARTY. Previously an assistant for two TV Lit agents at UTA, Joe was selected into Rideback Rise Fellowship as a Circle Member, Coverfly's Endorsed Writer Program, and Roadmap Writer's Support Staff Initiative. His Y.A. action dramedy THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX won the Grand Prize in the Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Pilot Competition. Honors & Awards Disney Writing Fellowship Finalist - 2024 Top 25 Screenwriters to Know, ISA - 2023 Grand Prize Winner, Emerging Screenwriter Action & Adventure Pilot Competition - THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX - 2022 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX (Y.A. Action Drama - HARRY POTTER meets KINGSMEN) The unsettling arrival of a new teen helps a principal launch the CIA’s secret prep academy into disorder as faculty and students find their secrets are no longer safe. FINDING A LOST PEN (Y.A. Mystery Dramedy - VERONICA MARS meets SEX EDUCATION with a dash of WANDAVISION) A teen with crippling social anxiety starts a high school detective agency, secretly using its intel on students to find his missing twin sister. Coming-of-Age, YA Male, BIPOC, Black 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 Lisa Jeanne Rosenberg thewholestory@comcast.net 415-407-2573 Lisa Rosenberg is an AFI Screenwriting graduate and a narrative screenwriter focused on dramas, coming-of-age, and political thrillers. CURE, a thriller, was a Semifinalist for the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Writers’ Lab and Second Round in the 2022, 2021, and 2020 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions. A PLACE CALLED HOME, a political drama, was a 2024 Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition and previously an Independent Film Week selection. GRAFT, a period coming-of-age, won a 2023 Puffin Foundation grant for development as a stage play and was Second Round in the 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. CRAWL SPACE, a psychological drama adapted from the novel by Edie Meidav, was a 2015 Finalist for the New York Women in Film & Television Writers' Lab. Recent contracts include script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing CLIPPED WINGS (working title), a dramatic feature for Front Row Productions; co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions; and writing A PRAYER, a script for a short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher. Earlier projects she has written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, and a nomination for a Peabody Award. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, NYWIFT Writers’ Lab – CURE – 2023 Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – CURE – 2022 Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – GRAFT – 2022 non-WGA Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, 55+ CURE (Political Thriller) When a gifted Nigerian medical student invents a malaria vaccine derived from sea life, he must challenge a powerful drug company bent on co-opting his work and patenting the creatures from which the vaccine would be made. GRAFT (Coming-of-Age) In 1903, a nineteen-year-old street girl, impersonator, and thief gains an unexpected chance to recreate herself on the stage, which may enable her to transform who she can be in real life. CRAWL SPACE (Psychological Thriller) When an unrepentant war criminal secretly returns home, desperate to clear his name, he meets a troubled drifter whose story mirrors his own, forcing him to run again to finally face what he has become. Character-driven, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, International Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, 55+ unrepped

< Back Lisa Gold lisasmgold@gmail.com http://www.lisamgold.com Writer/director Lisa Gold grew up all over North America, which left her confused and also Canadian. A dual citizen, she 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. As a filmmaker, Lisa wrote and/or directed eight award-winning short films which played in 100 festivals. Her current anti-gun violence short satire has played in 56 festivals. Lisa’s screenplays have won the CineStory Screenwriting Awards and the Nashville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize; her scripts reached the Finals of the Nicholl Fellowships, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and Script Pipeline TV Competition. She has recently twice been an Austin Semi-Finalist with a feature and a TV pilot. Lisa wrote one middle grade children’s novel based on her award-winning family action-adventure feature script. She is completing a second YA sci-fi novel based on her recent YA TV pilot. Lisa has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from UCLA. Working her way downward, she will soon have an AA degree in film. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory, Lisa performed improv comedy at crappy coffeehouses in LA. When she gets stuck in a script, Lisa improvises her way out by recalling the scent of stale coffee, or the grandeur of swaying palm fronds and oil production. Honors & Awards Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA - 2022 Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - FOREGLOW - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival - YONGE STREET STRIP - 2019 non-WGA Female, Over 40 YONGE STREET STRIP (TV drama/true crime pilot – LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE meets BLOODLINE) In 1977 Toronto, after 16 year-old Ruth learns her Orthodox Jewish family owns a strip club, an infamous murder occurs, convulsing the city. Ruth’s family gets exposed and her dad is implicated. Inspired by true events. 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. FOREGLOW (Sci-fi thriller feature - WILD THINGS meets SOURCE CODE) Barista Heather, 31, uses out-of-body sexual experiences to time travel in order to save boyfriend Danny, 36, from being fatally shot. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Snarky Female, Over 40 unrepped

< 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 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