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< Back Ann LeSchander Ann.LeSchander@gmail.com IMDB Originally from upstate NY, Ann started as a touring singer in musicals before moving to Los Angeles to record film soundtracks, sparking her passion for storytelling and a pivot to filmmaking. Ann’s historical feature, FREIDEL, won Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Competition. As a Creative Director for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ann has written and directed commercials, trailers, and promos for Sony content including Cinevault, Murder & Mayhem, Sony Movie Channel, Game Show Network, and more. She is the winner of a Promax Gold Award for her “Hellevator Interruptus” campaign with Blumhouse Entertainment. Ann wrote and directed the indie feature THE PARK BENCH, which won “Best Feature” awards in NY, Toronto, Chicago, and Argentina. It is available on multiple streamers and a popular pick in libraries across the US. (The daughter of a librarian, this makes Ann very happy.) Ann holds a BA in English from Colgate University, and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts. Honors & Awards Winner - Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition - FREIDEL - 2024 Top Ten Final Draft ""Big Break"" (& selected for The Writer's Lab) - PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ MASTERPIECE Episodic TV Pilot Castle , White Collar After a reckless mistake, a rugged LA Homicide Detective is ""transferred"" to Art Theft thrusting him into LA's billion-dollar art scene. Paired with a snobby art scholar, he tracks crimes through the city while while trying to solve the one murder case that has eluded him." FREIDEL Feature - Historical Action/Adventure Arctic , The Nightingale After her family is murdered in a pogrom, a young Jewish woman embarks on a perilous journey through the Russian wilderness to escape across the border and receives help from an unlikely ally, a young Russian soldier shot for disobeying orders. PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS Feature - Comedy Get Him to the Greek , Topsy Turvy An aspiring singer is thrilled to drive famed opera star Porter Douglas to his sold-out concert in upstate New York, until the carousing tenor goes AWOL and she must enlist a former marine to help find him before he ruins her fledgling career. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Romantic, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Luke Zwanziger LukeZwan@gmail.com http://www.LukeZwan.com LinkedIn The Black List After the recession of 2008, Luke sold his car, bought a cinema camera, pitched his first original script, & never looked back. Since then he has worked on projects for Adobe, Nike, Apple, and more. He writes stories that examine the absurdity and occasionally the horror of how people react when put in untenable situations. His scripts have won or placed at various competitions including PAGE, HorrOrigins, NYC Midnight, ISA Emerging Writers, FilmLabtv, and more. His most recent Short VINES, just finished a festival run at Overlook, Dances With Films: NY, with 42 official selections, 23 nominations, 14 wins (Best Horror Short 3x, Best FX, Best Actor, Audience Choice, and more). A feature version is currently being shopped for production. He has live directed video for over 700 multicam comedy shows including talent like Amber Ruffin, Jaime Moyer (AP BIO) and Stephnie Weir (MADtv). He has taught and performed around the globe, from NZ to the UK. When he isn't writing or filming, he is eating artisanal doughnuts and indulging in some ennui. Honors & Awards BEST HORROR SHORT, Seattle Film Festival - Vines (Short) - 2024 OFFICIAL SELECTION, Dances With Films: NY - Vines (Short) - 2024 - https://deadline.com/2024/11/2024-dances-with-films-new-york-lineup-announcement-1236177787/ BEST HORROR FEATURE, HorrOrigins Film Fest - BIOLOGICAL - 2021 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, 40+ VINES Feature - Eco Body Horror - THE THING Meets ANNIHILATION When a professor of botany is fired for radical beliefs, he continues his experiments in a small town in Oregon, where he finds a family whose genetics are receptive to his forced evolution, but their humanity is less willing to submit to his violent interference. BIOLOGICAL Feature - Horror Thriller - Mama + The Babadook While at a weekend getaway at a cabin that turns out to be a secret graveyard for dead foster children, a woman, and her husband are haunted by the child she secretly gave up for adoption a decade earlier. VAMP E.R. TV Pilot - Horror/Comedy- What We Do in the Shadows + Scrubs A socially-conscious ER doctor joins a mismanaged hospital for mythical creatures after she’s unwillingly turned into a vampire. Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Dark, Silly Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Danielle Evenson Sheree Guitar of SGE Entertainment sheree@shereeguitarent.com IMDb Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington are a set of mittens you left at Sundance (you can figure out which one is which). As the child of a narcissist and mother of two neurodiverse kids (Heather) and a would-be beauty queen who grew up driving the bull semen route (Danielle), obviously they write comedy. Specifically, they write edgy and sometimes nerdy feminist comedy with a pop culture bent. After studying writing at USC and Emerson, After studying writing at USC and the University of Chicago, Danielle & Heather have staffed on CBS’s "The New Adventures of Old Christine," created podcasts for Meet Cute and Aural Stories, and won audio fellowships with the Orchard Project and Gotham Film & Media Institute. Their romantic comedy feature, "The Proposal Spot," is available on Amazon and Peacock. When not writing, they teach storytelling and narrative podcasting at the New York Film Academy, and host their monthly table read series, "CoPilots," at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Jeff Sagansky Harvardwood Writers Program - ATHERTON - 2021 Fellow, The Orchard Project's Audio Lab - 2021 Fellow, The Orchard Project's Episodic Writer's Lab - PILGRIMAGE - 2019 Post-current Member Female, 40+ GEN SEXY Single cam comedy pilot - AbFab meets Veronica's Closet Two too-cool-for-school Gen Xers known for being hip, who now have to create their own next chapter, now that they’re in danger of breaking their hips. TWICE EXCEPTIONAL Single cam comedy pilot - The Goldbergs meets Atypical When a couple who finds out their quirky son is actually gifted AND on the spectrum, they learn that absolutely everything they thought they knew about parenting no longer applies. PILGRIMAGE Single cam comedy pilot - Broad City meets The Crucible What happens when the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of 1620s England gets stuck with the OGs of white privilege--the pilgrims? Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, YA, Limited Series, Satire, Late Night Female, 40+ repped

< Back Nic Cohen hillmannic@gmail.com Rep by Chris Coggins - Heroes & Villains Entertainment. IMDB "NIC COHEN portrays relatable, complex women under pressure in grounded sci-fi, contained thrillers and dark comedy features. A forest scientist by training, Nic’s voracious curiosity led to an eclectic resume that includes visiting Guantanamo Bay detainees for human rights work, earning a red card to fight forest fires, lobbying Congress on global warming policy, dancing internationally in a salsa/hip hop troupe, editing a tree farming magazine, and teaching NIH neuroscientists ballroom dance. These wildly varied experiences, in combination with raising three neurodiverse teens as an LGBTQ+ and trans-proud mom, inform her unique perspective on gender, privilege and power and her empathy for marginalized voices. Nic's first three features are in development with the producers of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, HERETIC, and UNBROKEN. Her scripts have consistently won accolades, notably as a PAGE International Silver Winner for Thriller and Austin Film Festival Enderby Finalist. Nic was selected to attend the Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman-supported The Writers Lab in 2022. A native Texan, Nic now lives outside Washington, D.C. with her Yankee husband, three adolescent gamers, a shy Siberian kitten and a bold African Pygmy hedgehog. She’s represented by Heroes & Villains Entertainment. Honors & Awards Selected Writer, The Writer’s Lab Eighth Edition - ARTEMIS ONE - 2022 Silver Prize Winner Thriller/Horror Feature, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2023 Enderby Feature Finalist, Austin Film Festival - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2022 non-WGA Female, 40+ ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN Contained Thriller Feature In the vein of a dark 50 FIRST DATES After surviving the car crash that killed her family, a woman with anterograde amnesia wakes in her own bed to a stranger who says he’s her fiancé´ and must piece together clues left by her past-self before she falls asleep and forgets it all again. ARTEMIS ONE Sci-Fi Contained Thriller Feature When three women astronauts on the first human flight to Mars are cut off from NASA by a solar flare, they must battle the mysterious sinister forces threatening their mission - and their lives. MOTIVATED Comedy pilot DIRTBAG meets BARRY , literally A wannabe motivational speaker in a downward spiral takes her last stab at stardom and unintentionally inspires a lonely serial killer to chase his dreams. Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror Female, 40+ repped

< 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 Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com IMDb The Black List Based out of Portland, Oregon, Nicole Jones-Dion is an acclaimed writer-director who specializes in telling elevated genre stories. Beginning her career in comics and video games, she transitioned to screenwriting, writing features for SyFy Channel, Lionsgate, and Sony - including an adaptation of the best-selling martial arts game Tekken. An Army Brat, Nicole had a nomadic upbringing, living in places as diverse as Hawaii and Germany before her family finally settled down in Wilmington, NC. In school, she won the North Carolina Writer's Award for a full scholarship to Duke University, where she studied Creative Writing, History, and Theology. After graduation, she did her own brief stint in the Army before relocating to LA and the PNW. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with the National Park Service and advocates for military veterans in the entertainment industry. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - Apex Path - 2026 FOX Writers Incubator -Winner - WIKI - 2022 The Grey List - Official Selection - STILL WATERS - 2023 The Stunt List Originals Bureau - Official Selection - WIKI - 2024 non-WGA, caucus only Female, 40+, Military Veteran WIKI (1 hour drama - YA Horror) A modern-day reimagining of The Monkey’s Paw for the internet generation. The lives of three college friends are turned upside down when they discover a mysterious online wiki site. Any changes made to the wiki magically come true in the real world — with unpredictable and deadly consequences. APEX PATH Feature - Tech Thriller A grief-stricken teenager believes her cousin's suicide was triggered by a seemingly benevolent AI therapy app. To expose it, she becomes a user herself, only to find the AI has a terrifying agenda of its own. JUVIE (Feature - YA Horror) A delinquent teenage girl discovers a pattern among unexplained deaths at a juvenile detention facility - they all die before they turn 18 and "age out" of the system. With her own 18th birthday looming, she must find out who is behind the mysterious deaths before she becomes the next victim. Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, YA, Magical Realism Female, 40+, Military Veteran unrepped

< Back Hank Isaac pointsource@gmail.com http://www.hankthewriter.com Hank Isaac is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has enjoyed a varied career. The only child of a motion picture executive and a professional dancer, Hank experienced a fanciful childhood. He married his college sweetheart and they are somewhat of an anomaly – they're still married to each other after more than half a century. Hank has worked as a middle school teacher, a college professor, a sailing school manager & instructor, a research director, a product designer, an exhibit designer, a radio station disc jockey, and a toy store owner. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer who served on active duty during the Vietnam conflict. Hank and his wife lived on a boat for eleven years and raised a genius daughter in a toy store. Hank began writing feature films in 1994 and was fortunate to have been mentored by the late legendary Stewart Stern (Rebel without a Cause; Rachel, Rachel; Man without a Country; Sybil). He started directing in 2006 and since then, he and his work have been “Official Selections” in over one hundred international film festivals and awards competitions and have won more than fifty awards. Additionally, his screenplays and teleplays have been finalists and semi-finalists in more than three dozen writing competitions. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, 40+, 55+ KYLA'S WAR TV Series - Historical Drama In WWII Poland, a twelve-year-old girl is the pampered pigtailed daughter of a respected surgeon by day and, by night, a Resistance fighter who is quickly becoming the scourge of the Third Reich. OLIVIANA Family TV Series & Middle-Grade Novel Against an ever-increasing set of seemingly insurmountable situations, a little girl struggles to build and run a tiny cargo-carrying railroad to try to save her town from economic ruin and in the process learns a trainload of life lessons. ATOM & EVE Feature Film - Family - Drama Without enough air to journey to each other's habitat, two children, the isolated last survivors of a failed planetary colony, must devise a way for one to rescue the other in the face of a life-threatening disaster. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA, Animation, Limited Series, Magical Realism Male, 40+, 55+ unrepped

< Back Najla Zaidi nzaidi6@gmail.com IMDb The Black List Najla Zaidi is an award-winning screenwriter and director. She is a fellow of the American Film Institute and has earned an MFA from UCLA. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Define 1497 - MARYAM - 2025 Winner, MPAC Wise Entertainment Lab - BULL'SEYE - 2018 Winner, Telly Awards - DEAR MOM - 2015 Winner, Aurora Best of Show - DEAR MOM - 2015 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, Asian, 55+ ETERNAL SPRING Drama - A Passage to India/Vanity Fair When an Emperor’s beloved is forced into a marriage with his nemesis while he is away at war, he must risk losing his Empire to get her back. A SLIP IN TIME Dramedy - 13 Going on 30/Big When a woman falls back in time, she must relive her high school sagas to change her bleak future. BULLSEYE TV drama pilot - Percy Jackson/KOAS When the End of Days is fast approaching, the gods must find a way to reverse the hourglass of time or face total annihilation. Character-driven, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, International Female, Asian, 55+ unrepped

< Back David Ngo doubleohthreeproductions@yahoo.com https://davidngofilm.wordpress.com David Ngo is an engaging screenwriter with a multifaceted writing background. Recently, he was under contract to write animated feature screenplays at DreamWorks Animation and Illumination Entertainment as a cohort of the inaugural Universal Animation Writing Program. With prior experiences in copywriting and script reading, David is a communications specialist with expertise in creative consultation, content programming, and podcasts. As a filmmaker, David directed THE QUEEN FROM VIRGINIA, an award-winning feature documentary chronicling his aunt’s journey from war refugee to beauty queen as she competed in a national pageant for women over 60. David is also an honoree of NBC Writers on the Verge, Project:Involve, and the Visual Communications Armed with a Camera fellowship. His screenwriting has earned him a Top 75 distinction from The Tracking Board and a CAPE New Writers Award. David has worked for several media companies including Netflix, NBCUniversal, HBO, and Disney+. Outside of writing, David serves as an Asian American Studies lecturer at Cal State Fullerton and hosts the cathartic podcast series Best Story I Never Told. Honors & Awards Universal Animation Writing Program - 2021 Hollywood Reporter Article Top 75, Tracking Board Feature Competition - BOY BANDS TO MEN - 2018 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander NOT SCHOOL FOR SCHOOL (1/2 Hour Comedy - THE WONDER YEARS meets FRESH OFF THE BOAT) When California’s Prop 187 bans undocumented children from public schools, a free-spirited middle schooler and her uptight brother handle the threat of deportation in opposing ways. BOY BANDS TO MEN (Feature Comedy - PITCH PERFECT meets POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING) A washed-up R&B heartthrob attempts to manage his estranged son for an audition for the first K-pop boy band comprised of only non-Koreans for the hope of a substantial commission. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Coming-of-Age, YA, Animation, Satire Male, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander unrepped

< Back Kelly Jo Brick kellyjobrick@gmail.com https://kellyjobrick.com Kelly Jo Brick is a TV crime, mystery and procedural writer who digs into the layers and complexities of humanity, underdogs and justice, an exploration which is fueled by her specialized training in criminal behavior and intelligence. A Sundance fellow and alum of the Women In Film Writer/Showrunner Mentoring Program, Kelly Jo writes Bricks By Brick, an interview series for Cocktails and Movies that highlights the art and craft of making TV and film and spotlights the hard-working creatives bringing these projects to life. Originally from a small town in the heart of Wisconsin’s dairy country, Kelly Jo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with degrees in creative writing and English. While at the UW, she played trombone in the highly acclaimed University of Wisconsin Marching Band. After winning the Scriptapalooza TV competition and writing the Telly Award-winning film, PAUSE, she relocated to Los Angeles where she is the Vice Chair of the WGAW Genre Committee. WGA Associate Member Female THE RIDGE (TV Crime Drama) A Las Vegas FBI agent exposes corruption in the police department of her suburban Pittsburgh hometown, resulting in her being appointed interim chief, set with the task of chasing down a powerful drug ring while also having to survive her wildly dysfunctional family. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Procedural Female unrepped

< Back Jazz Pompilus jeffpompilus@gmail.com JAZZ POMPILUS won’t claim that he was bullied as a kid and learned to make jokes to defend himself. He won’t say that he wanted to join a gang but was rejected because he was deemed too goofy. Even though it's all true, he won’t say any of it. Jazz simply sees himself as an artist who likes to entertain himself and others with his humorous storytelling. Jazz, a first-gen Haitian (we don't eat pets!) Brooklynite attended Central Michigan University for grad school. There weren’t too many people who looked like him there. In the entire master’s program, he was considered Black guy number 3. After that ordeal, he performed stand-up for 10 years at clubs such as New York Comedy Club and the Comedy Store and pursued writing classes at UCB New York and Script Anatomy to satisfy his passion for comedy writing. Mike Montesano, co-executive producer of the TV sitcom Bunk'd, has mentored him since moving to Los Angeles. Jazz has also gained experience in pitching jokes in writers' rooms. When he isn’t writing, Jazz enjoys boxing so it can help with his punchlines. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black EMULSIFIED Half-Hour Multi-Cam Sitcom An inverse FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR meets The Bernie Mac Show When a beloved family friend passes away, a frugal Black husband and his overly wholesome white wife shake up their modest life by taking in a pampered, rich Black teen, sparking culture clashes, class confusion, and unexpected family bonds." Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Silly Male, BIPOC, Black 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