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< Back Melody R. Herr James Moorer – One Moorer Media & Management James@onemoorer.com IMDB Raised by a teen single mom just three blocks north of Detroit’s 8 Mile, becoming a writer once felt like a luxury Melody couldn’t afford. After leaving behind her career as an architectural designer to raise her family across continents, she earned an MFA in screenwriting from Emerson College and finally traded in her T-square. She writes about scrappy women who, like her, hold it together until they don’t. Whether in comedy, drama, or a high-stakes thriller, her protagonists stop pretending, start unraveling, and somewhere between the chaos and the caffeine, figure out who they really are. When the world doesn’t make space for them, they kick the walls out and make their own. Repped by James Moorer at One Moorer Media & Management, Melody also directs and recently produced the feature film DIFFRACTION, available on Amazon Prime. She is the creator and producer of The Farm, a serialized mystery-thriller podcast that recently launched on all major platforms. In her spare time, she enjoys chasing cheap flights... and occasionally remembers to pack socks. Honors & Awards Best Drama, London International Film Festival - Winner – X’ed Out – 2021 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship – Semifinalist and Official Selection - Tapped Out – 2023 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards – Quarterfinalist - Excess Baggage – 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+, 55+ BOOMERANGED Half-Hour, Single-Cam Coming-of-Age Comedy HACKS meets THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS A broke, audacious Boomer reenrolls at the university she dropped out of four decades ago, chasing the life she missed, building the campus family she didn’t know she needed – all while dodging the Dean of Students: her uptight son-in-law. THE CHRISTMAS EVE Feature | High-Concept Christmas Adventure w/ Fantasy THE SANTA CLAUSE meets ELF When a spirited young girl travels to the North Pole to save her family’s Christmas store, her jaded single mom must confront her past and rediscover the magic of the holiday before the portal closes for another year. TAPPED OUT One-Hour Drama with Heart and Levity A MILLION LITTLE THINGS meets THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL As she hits the big 5-0, an aimless suburban mom finds an unexpected lifeline in the world of improv comedy after her husband’s suicide attempt. Character-driven, Female-centric, Fantasy, Coming-of-Age, Dark Female, 40+, 55+ repped

< Back Dana Braziel-Solovy dana.braziel@gmail.com https://www.danabrazielsolovy.com As a former Chicago punk rocker, Dana knows how to rebel but promises only to do so for good. Through properly timed, insensitive jokes, she hopes to help people see the world differently. Dana believes strongly in interpersonal understanding, which is why she spent time in Berlin studying German and continues to learn the silent language of circus arts. Having grown up with a suicidal mother, Dana knows the importance of safe forms of escapism. Her writing seeks to lessen pain through laughter. Dana's first foray, a comic book mini-series, landed her on the Diamond indie bestsellers list twice. To support her compulsive writing habits, Dana works as a television Art Director with credits on shows such as CSI: VEGAS and WANDAVISION. Honors & Awards Fellow - Hollywood Radio & Television Society Fellowship Program - 2025 Fellow - Disability Belongs Entertainment Lab - 2025 Mentee - Women in Film Mentorship Program - 2022 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ RESTING BITCH FACE ( Half-Hour Comedy ) When a people-pleasing junior architect loses her ability to fake a smile, she must learn to embrace her inner bitch despite a world that expects women to play nice. GOOGIE'S DINER ( Half-Hour Comedy ) In the 1950s, the waitresses at Googie’s iconic diner - who have very different ideas of their gender roles - must work together to create the ideal future-forward dining establishment, despite spilled coffee and guts, mixed up orders and feelings, and handsy, too honest teenagers in the drive-in. NO GIRLS IN THE GANG ( Half-Hour Comedy ) After being bullied by her judgy suburban peers, a misunderstood 2000s high-schooler seeks acceptance from a punk rock gang in the city and tries everything to become the first girl in the gang. Inspired by a true story. Character-driven, Female-centric, Dark, Snarky, Magical Realism Female, LGBTQ+ 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 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 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 Tim Kontje trkontje@gmail.com The Black List Tim is an LA-based screenwriter who has won numerous contests including Stage 32, Emerging Screenwriters, and Creative Screenwriting. He is also a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist and recently became a board member of the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Originally from California, Tim also grew up in Germany and has an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. Despite having a twin, he sadly isn’t telepathic. Honors & Awards Winner, Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest - KITBASH - 2024 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - ZERO LINE - 2024 Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Action/Adventure Competition - ZERO LINE - 2023 non-WGA Male KITBASH Action Feature LUCY meets THE RAID After a slacker maid accidentally gains advanced combat abilities from an experimental serum, she has two hours before it kills her to find a cure and rescue her sister from a psycho billionaire and his private army. ZERO LINE Action/Adventure Feature TOMB RAIDER meets BLOOD DIAMOND When her partner goes missing searching for looted treasure, a hard-charging journalist teams up with a cynical thief and a timid archaeologist in a race through the blood antiquities underworld to find him before a ruthless mercenary corporation. Inspired by true events. BLACK BUTTERFLY Action/Adventure Pilot ROGUE HEROES meets KINGSMAN Berlin, 1941: After her identical twin is killed, a shy young woman must take her sister's place as a spy in the heart of the Nazi Reich. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History Male unrepped

< Back Tracy Charlton tkcharlton@gmail.com Tracy grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. After working in the film industry for several years, she moved to New York City where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her screenplay RAISED UP, which was one of the winners of the Meryl Streep funded Writers Lab, was based on a story she did in journalism school. Her background as a journalist informs her work as screenwriter in terms of both the intense research she does for every project, but also in her interest in a wide variety of stories. Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. And she did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan. She currently lives in Marin County with her son and a dog named Pickles. Honors & Awards WeScreenplay Short Script Lab - Winner - THE EARTH ANSWERS -- 2024 Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO -- 2024 Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep - Winner - RAISED UP -- 2015 Non-WGA Female, Over 50 BIG LIFE (Feature/rom-com - MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING meets SILICON VALLEY ) When a professional tennis player and a San Francisco tech nerd fall in love, they must negotiate their dueling ambitions and her eccentric Romanian family in order to find happiness. 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. THE EARTH ANSWERS (Short; thriller) When a young man gets a tattoo from a mysterious tattoo artist his life takes a turn for the worse. Character-driven, Female-centric, YA, Action, Romantic Comedy Female, Over 50 unrepped

< Back Lisa Lutes lmluey@gmail.com Lisa Lutes is a screenwriter from Ottawa, Canada. Lisa graduated from university with a degree in marine and freshwater biology and worked as a fisheries biologist on ships and islands in the Alaskan fishing industry. Eventually, she went back to university in Australia to train as a primary school teacher to settle down and raise her two daughters. After writing a novel and memoir about Alaska, as well as several picture books, she decided to give screenwriting a turn and fell in love. Lisa uses her strange mix of world travel, teaching and parenting experience to write comedy and family, with a love of all things time travel, looping and bending. Lisa is currently developing a series of middle grade graphic novels with her illustrator husband, Jay Lutes. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, PAGE awards - PRESENT 2024 Second Round, Sundance development track - OSTARBEITER 2025 non-WGA Female, Disabled, 40+ PRESENT Family feature Trapped in the photos of her social media account, a girl must find a way out to return to her real life. OSTARBEITER Drama feature Three mothers in different times and places deal with the generational consequences of a Nazi work camp that imprisoned Eastern European women in WW2. SHOWROOM Comedy feature Trapped in an IKEA showroom of their past, a couple must navigate years of built up resentment to survive the adjustment of an empty nest. Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Children's, Magical Realism Female, Disabled, 40+ unrepped

< Back Linda Dillon Moya (Sweigart) Manager: Sandra Avila, Inclusion Management - www.inclusionmgmt.com https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2130265/credits Raised on the border of El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, Linda studied at an all-girl Catholic school. She was a tomboy until she was sent to modeling school to become a beauty queen. Linda spent her childhood perfecting her English and Spanish skills to please her mother, who taught ESL. She learned to shoot guns from her father, a Green Beret, who had severe PTSD. In high school, Linda discovered that her father was actually her stepfather. This precipitated Linda’s rebellious period. She dated the son of a notorious drug lord until her mother packed her off to study in Spain. Linda has worked in diverse fields: an archeological field-tech, a financial planner, and an instructor at Homeland Security, where she taught TSA Agents to find bombs. These experiences led to a passion for storytelling that landed her an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. When her mother died unexpectedly, her mom’s so-called best friend seduced her stepfather, dumped him at a retirement home, and pillaged the family estate. Heartbroken, Linda took a two-year pilgrimage around the world where she was courted by an Indian Prince, consulted Cambodian fortune tellers, and was hospitalized in Myanmar for a spider bite. Luckily, she lives to tell the tale. WGA Associate Member Female, BIPOC, Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, Multi-Ethnic BORDER SAINTS (Supernatural Crime Drama - SUPERNATURAL meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) An ambitious FBI agent must embrace her ancestral powers to take down the men who murdered her father, but as family secrets unravel, she learns nothing is as it appears. BURNOUTS (Drama - WHITE LOTUS meets THE RESORT) An aggrieved woman stranded in a foreign country finds love and a sense of purpose in the most unexpected place -- Siem Reap, Cambodia. We follow her life and struggles as she works to reinvent herself. WHITE SANDS (Sci-fi/Drama - in the vein of X-FILES) FBI agents Dr. David Carmichael and Lexie Stone investigate a murder found on sacred Native American land. Stumped, they enlist a crew of archeological misfits and a Hopi Shaman to investigate the crime and other strange occurrences across the United States. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Procedural, Fantasy, International, Magical Realism Female, BIPOC, Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, Multi-Ethnic repped

< Back Anne Toole thewritetoole@gmail.com https://writingiswriting.wordpress.com/ Writers Guild Award-winning writer Anne Toole has written for live-action series, games, animation, comics, and more. Her work currently appears in Netflix's DANIEL SPELLBOUND and the action-comedy series CANNON BUSTERS. Previously, she wrote for GHOST OF TSUSHIMA: DIRECTOR'S CUT and for WOMEN OF MARVEL #1 . She also wrote for DAYS OF OUR LIVES, contributed to the Emmy-winning short-form dramedy THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES, and created the hundred-episode dramedy ALLES LIEBE, ANNETTE for the German market. Anne's credits include THE WITCHER game, the HORIZON ZERO DAWN games and comics, and ASSASSIN'S CREED ORIGINS. She has spoken extensively on storytelling across platforms at South by Southwest and Comic-con International as well as in presentations at MIT, Harvard, and Cannes. A citizen of Ireland as well as the US, Anne holds a degree in Archaeology from Harvard. Honors & Awards Golden Joystick Award, Narrative - DAYS GONE - 2022 Writers Guild Award Winner - HORIZON ZERO DAWN - 2018 non-WGA Female UNMOVED MOVER (Period sci-fi short story) Professor Challenger enlists an old friend to find the source of a mysterious sound, while still reeling from the loss of his son in the Great War. WITNESSES (Legal procedural pilot) A disbarred attorney seeks redemption by assembling a team of expert witnesses, but his integrity immediately comes into question on their very first case. Queer, Crime, Procedural, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, Animation Female unrepped

< Back N.C. Jones ncjones01@gmail IMDB N.C. Jones is a Raleigh-based screenwriter whose work interrogates historical and cultural narratives through the lens of outsiders and marginalized voices. Drawing on an eclectic background that includes stints as a birthday party clown, pirate DJ, call center supervisor, and tech ghostwriter, her storytelling champions tales of unlikely heroes and complex characters navigating challenging landscapes. Jones has written and produced four short films, including "Lungs," which won Best Sci-Fi at the 2023 Longleaf Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by DUST, a science fiction streaming service available on YouTube, Pluto TV, and Tubi. She also wrote, produced, and directed the comedic short film "Merit Badges." Her films have screened at festivals like Cucalorus and Longleaf. Her work has earned recognition in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting competition and as both a Semifinalist and Quarterfinalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Her work explores the complexities of heritage and characters who find power outside traditional roles. With over a decade of experience in production, design, and marketing, Jones brings practical grounding to her authentic storytelling that grapples with the weight of history and the search for belonging. non-WGA Female, 40+ THE EDUCATION OF EBBE GRAVES Western TRUE GRIT meets SLOW WEST Disguised as a man and aided by a cynical gunsmith, a young Quechan woman infiltrates the gang of the sadistic outlaw who murdered her parents. LEAD BURNS RED Drama series BOARDWALK EMPIRE meets OZARK Set in 1950s North Carolina, LEAD BURNS RED depicts the triumphs and agonies of tight-knit community trapped in the grasp of a capricious and volatile moonshine baron." RODS OUT Comedy TALLADEGA NIGHTS meets THE LEGACY OF THE WHITETAIL DEER HUNTER To pay off a dangerous debt to Kiwi gangsters, a washed-up, egomaniacal bass fishing legend must win the 'World Series of Fishing,' forcing him to confront his fiercest rivals and the estranged daughter he alienated in his pursuit of glory. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Western, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Michael Lee Barlin mleebarlin@gmail.com IMDB Michael Lee began writing and directing his own stories at age six after seeing Star Wars on the big screen and having his mind blown. Growing up in rural Poughkeepsie, but visiting NYC often because his Catholic-Italian mother and Jewish father (not to mention a Syrian Great Grandfather) were all from Brooklyn, Michael Lee grew up in the spectacle-ridden era of Lucas and Spielberg, where he learned from both the movies and his family that diversity, humor, tugging the heart, and a touch of magic are the keys to making things work (neighborhoods, families, and movies alike). With a passion to push the envelope even further than his favorite filmmakers, and a talent for making people cry, or laugh out loud on the page (best when on the same page), Michael Lee now likes to write epic, world-building stories with a touch of magic, that are infused with strong, oddball characters who drive the narrative, all in an effort to entertain and touch the heart while giving thematic voice to important social commentary. Michael Lee has now directed two award-winning features, had a script on the annual Black List that was developed at Disney, won in the Page Awards, was a semifinalist in both the Nicholl Fellowships and Sundance Feature Film Program, and once did not sleep for a week when Stephen Spielberg himself personally requested to read one of Michael Lee’s scripts! Swoon to black… Honors & Awards Annual Black List - FINAL JOURNEY - 2015 Winner, Bronze - PAGE Screenwriting Awards - FINAL JOURNEY - 2015 Semifinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowships - FINAL JOURNEY (Apocalypse Rewrite) - 2022 " non-WGA Male, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ SIDEKICK Live-Action/Animated Feature FREE GUY meets ROGER RABBIT When the villain from an animated TV show breaks into our world and threatens our existence, the world’s leaders try to bring through a cartoon superhero to defend us, but accidentally bring forth the hero's comedic sidekick by mistake. ONE MORE MOMENT Epic Drama THE NOTEBOOK meets ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND A man suffering from Alzheimer’s and trapped inside his own mind, goes on an epic adventure through his worst suppressed memories to escape back into lucidity and share one more moment with his dying wife. FINAL JOURNEY Adventure Drama PREY meets live-action Pixar Set in the future during a second ice age, a mistreated elderly woman is forced from her village to survive alone on a savage arctic tundra until she learns the true meaning of sacrifice through meeting a teen boy being hunted by a giant polar bear." Character-driven, Female-centric, Bittersweet, Silly, Magical Realism Male, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ unrepped