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< Back Lisa Kors lisamkors@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131495/ A daughter of immigrants, Lisa Kors was raised near Yonkers, NY. Her love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball with FBI guys and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe not so weird…?) By second grade, Lisa could tell a story that would scare the bejesus out of her friends. To this day, Lisa likes writing stories about good people making bad choices for excellent reasons. She is also an excellent parallel parker. Honors & Awards Coverfly Top 2% of Thriller/Horror TV Pilots - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 non-WGA Female, Non-binary THE DRAGON OF HANDALE TV, Drama Based on a popular British novel, The Dragon of Handale is a medieval whodunnit that follows a badass young widow who investigates a gruesome series of murders at the convent where bad nuns are sent to be punished. PRINCES' HOSPITAL TV, Drama (GREY'S ANATOMY x HOMELAND) Inspired by a real hospital in Saudi Arabia, PRINCES' HOSPITAL is a one-hour drama that follows the adventures of the extravagantly paid ex-pat doctors and nurses who treat only the 20,000 members of the royal family. Money, rules and secrets abound. FREAKY FURDAY Feature, Comedy Cat-astophe ensues when a pampered show dog and a scrappy feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes competition. Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Psychological, Horror, International Female, Non-binary unrepped

< Back Elise Salomon elise.salomon@gmail.com Rep: Brian Goldberg | WPA https://againstthewindproductions.com/ Coverfly The Black List Elise Salomon is an award-winning writer, director and producer based in Los Angeles whose projects have been featured at international festivals and markets including Sundance, SXSW, IDFA, FrightFest, Stowe Story Labs, Galway Film Fleadh, Frontières and Cannes. A proud graduate of Pitzer College with a BA in Media Studies, she produced PAPER HEART, co-produced SMASHED and directed and produced LOS WILD ONES. Drawn to mythology and folklore as stories that viscerally and artistically encompass the unlimited potential of genre films, her writing embodies themes of trauma, trust, truth and transformation. She believes in storytelling as a universal tool to foster engagement, compassion, and meaningful discourse. Elise strives to be a fierce advocate for diversity and pursues projects with iconic characters and an all-encompassing aesthetic. non-WGA Female, 40+ INSIDE (Haunting of Hill House meets MOTHMAN PROPHECIES) On Ireland’s mystical Aran Islands, an American therapist arrives to treat a recently widowed composer imprisoned in his remote cottage by agoraphobia - and learns the terrifying possibility that the true source of his suffering may be a dark force rooted in the land itself. CAOINEADH (A supernatural Romeo & Juliet) In the West of Ireland, Brona and Cormac are two lost souls brought together by a terrible accident. Their fated union bonds them with the kind of love only written about, but a series of eerie events plague them...and propel them toward fulfilling their dark destiny. URD | SKULD (THE SHINING meets THE WICKER MAN) A young American couple attempts to mend their strained relationship as they travel on a tight budget to the Austrian Alps for Christmas — as their troubles are laid bare, something much more sinister and powerful than they have ever known awakens. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Limited Series, International Female, 40+ Repped

< 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 Leah Simmons lsimmons.johnstone@gmail.com (605) 359-4627 Coverfly Leah is a genre writer from South Dakota specializing in horror and sci-fi that ranges from the deep exploration of humanity's darker nature to laugh out loud funny. Honors & Awards Omaha Film Festival - Feature Finalist - WEREWOLVES CAN SUCK IT! - 2024 Launch Pad Feature Script Contest - Top 100 - PRO LIFE - 2024 The Women's Lab - Quarterfinalist - GERMINATION - 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+ PRO LIFE Horror Feature - MISERY x RED STATE When a pregnant woman and her wife are caught in a snowstorm in rural South Dakota, an alt-right religious family takes them in for the night. Things turn deadly when the family decides to “rescue” their unborn child. WEREWOLVES CAN SUCK IT! Comedy Feature - DALE & TUCKER VERSUS EVIL x WOLFCOP Just like your dog, werewolves are terrified of vacuum cleaners. So when a pack of werewolves invades a rural town, it's up to the owner of a failing vacuum repair business and her stoner friend to save the day with their arsenal of Hoovers and a plucky Roomba. TANDEM Sci-fi Feature - INCEPTION x TOTAL RECALL Haunted by her husband's accidental death, a suicide prevention officer working for the world's largest virtual reality company discovers a glitch in the software traps and kill its users. Now, she must determine what is real in order to implement a patch before the algorithm destroys her. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Dark, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back April Sanchez amsanchez.screenwriter@gmail.com Manager: James Smith with Aaron Kogan Management April M. Sánchez was born and raised on the US/Mexico border in El Paso, TX. Growing up in a bicultural city has inspired her stories, which often reflect the beauty, wonder, and traditional elements of border town culture. In 2022, a company that has an overall deal at Netflix worked with April to develop her whimsical television pilot inspired by her childhood as an American born Latina growing up on the border. April holds a bachelor's degree in Screenwriting and a Latino Media Studies certification from UT Austin. Her scripts have made their way to the finalist round in the Sundance Screenwriters and Episodic Labs and as a Semi-Finalist in The Academy Nicholl Fellowship and the Universal Writers Lab, amongst others. She was a 2021 fellow for the NHMC TV Series Writers Lab. April currently has a feature film in Stowe Story Lab's LAUNCH, a feature development program. As a writer, April is drawn to exploring themes of family, belonging, alienation and identity. Magical realism and border town Latinidad are often featured in her stories. non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx DAUGHTERS LOST TO THE DESERT (Feature- Drama/Thriller) A temperamental mother seeks justice for her daughter’s murder amidst systemic corruption and accusations of being a murderous vigilante herself, causing tension in the relationship with her surviving daughter with a dark secret of her own. BALLAD OF THE COCONUT (Half-hour TV pilot- coming-of-age dramedy) A socially awkward teenager becomes her own worst enemy when she sets out to stifle her overactive imagination in order to fit in, make friends at school and participate in a quinceañera. THE TRICKSTER AND THE DEMON (Feature- Horror) A con artist must exorcise a demon from her brother’s body, despite not believing in the existence of the supernatural, before the demon kills her brother and unleashes the dark forces of hell. Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Dark, Silly, Magical Realism Female, BIPOC, Latinx repped

< 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 Alec Moore alecmoore219@gmail.com Alec Moore has just written and co-produced his first feature to get made, a screwball romcom called "Advanced Chemistry," starring actors from hit shows on HBO and FOX, which premiered as an official selection of the Dances With Films festival, had a limited theatrical run, and just hit #3 on STARZ. It is 100% Fresh on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter. He has developed pilots and features with numerous production companies, including Intuition, Shaftesbury, The Fun Group and Monami. He has written for "Funny You Should Ask", produced by Byron Allen. Alec graduated from UCLA's MFA in Screenwriting program. He was a writer for the CBS Diversity Showcase, a Scriptapalooza finalist with his 30 Rock spec script, "Health Scare Plan," and a semi-finalist for Universal's Emerging Writers Fellowship with his feature script "The Ninth Life of Cat-Man." His short story "Optimistic Tom" was a selection of The New Short Fiction Series as part of its annual Emerging Voices Group Show. His web series "The Public Offender" would be very critically acclaimed if critics were aware of it. His mother will also be happy to tell you additional nice things about him. Alec is a Brooklyn native and a graduate of Haverford College, a school so prestigious that most people have never heard of it. He appreciates that you have read all the way to the end of his bio. Honors and Awards Dances With Films: LA Official Selection - Advanced Chemistry - 2024 #3 movie on STARZ - Advanced Chemistry - January 2025 non-WGA Male, Over 40 LEZ BE FRIENDS (comedy feature) Unable to bear the fact that his sister’s new fiancee doesn’t vibe with him the way her ex-girlfriends did, a codependent treehouse designer tries desperately to befriend the fiancee, jeopardizing his relationship with his own fiancee. EVIL TWIN (comedy feature and pilot) An OCD guy who struggles in life but is finally getting things to go his way has his life upended when his charming, suave twin who he’s always resented moves across the country and into his life, taking over his friends and winning the heart of his would-be girlfriend. And worse, people start getting murdered. THE NINTH LIFE OF CAT-MAN (animated pilot) When Cat-Man dies for the eighth time, he must retire from being a superhero and try to live a "normal" life. When living under his disapproving father's watchful eye proves intolerable, he ends up living in a halfway house with his sexy female super-villain arch-nemesis who killed him twice. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Animation, Silly, Sketch Male, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Kelly Anelons kanelons@me.com Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh. She writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing team. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

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

< Back Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com Matt Prater, Citizen Skull https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955614/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1 Coverfly The Black List Nicole Jones-Dion is an acclaimed Los Angeles-based 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. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with the National Park Service and advocates for military veterans in the entertainment industry. Honors & Awards 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 Female, 40+ 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. BACK TRACK (1 hour drama - Crime) When a young horse trainer is found trampled to death, police write it off as a tragic accident... until her father receives an anonymous tip that she was murdered. Now, it’s up to a professor-turned-private investigator to find her killer before he strikes again. Adapted from the novels by Joseph A. McCaffrey. 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, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, 40+ Repped

< 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 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