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< Back Yousif Nash yousif.nash.1@gmail.com 702-596-0233 https://yousifnash.wordpress.com Yousif is a son of Iraqi immigrants, an Air Force veteran, and a huge nerd. When he's not adventuring with Madame Cluck, he's writing about his military experience through the Sci-fi and fantasy genres. I believe in taking my real world experience into a format to show the audience a perspective they may not have seen or heard before. I've had experience in film and television, but games are my true calling. Currently I'm a Script Coordinator on the TRUE LIES television series, which is coming soon on CBS. non-WGA Male, Middle Eastern LEGEND OF THE DRAGON KNIGHT (Hourlong fantasy drama) A scruffy knight has to help an innocent girl with her newfound powers before she becomes a ticking time bomb, possibly destroying an entire continent. LOST PATRIOT (Hourlong sci-fi drama) A soldier that disobeys an inhumane order is sent on suicide missions where he slowly learns that he is a small cog for a bigger conspiracy. BIPOC-centric, Science, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Animation, Bittersweet, Magical Realism Male, Middle Eastern unrepped

< Back Alec Moore alecmoore219@gmail.com ​ Alec Moore is a comedy writer who has developed pilots and features with numerous production companies and written for FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, produced by Byron Allen. He's currently co-producing his first feature to get made, ADVANCED CHEMISTRY (starring cast members of HBO Max's OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH and HBO's BARRY). He was a writer for the 2017 CBS Diversity Sketch Showcase. Alec was a Scriptapalooza finalist with his 30 Rock spec script, HEALTH SCARE PLAN, and a 2015 semi-finalist for Universal's Emerging Writers Fellowship with the feature version of his 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 in 2015. Alec graduated from UCLA's MFA in Screenwriting program in 2014. 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. He appreciates that you have read all the way to the end of his bio. Honors and Awards Dances With Films: NY Official Selection - Advanced Chemistry - 2023 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 William T. Sutphin Agent: Sharon Fraizer, Crystal Ship Artists - sharon@crystalshipartists.com 310-962-1151 Coverfly William Sutphin is a former 2008 DGA winner for his short film, UNCLE KILLA, which he later licensed to HBO/Cinemax. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Film MFA program and has gone on to place as a quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship. Most recently, William was one of sixteen finalists for the 2020 Universal Writer's Program. WGA Post-current Member Male, BIPOC, Black, Over 40 HOODWINKED (Feature Dramedy - GET OUT meets FRIDAY) A woke vegan neighborhood activist and a Soul Food Matriarch must put aside their differences to save their beloved Wakefield from greedy corporate house flippers. Will they save their neighbors from eviction, or a fate worse than death..raisins in their potato salad. BOOKER & OLIVIA (Period, THE GREAT DEBATERS meets HARRIET) Two idealistic education missionaries journey to the Deep South to build a school for ex-slaves but when the local cartel cottons loses their workers to a classroom, they threaten to burn the school and everything in it down. Will Booker & Olivia protect their school and build a legacy? LATE IN THE GAME (Half hour comedy pilot) Late-middle-aged pharmacist Jermaine must decide on accepting secure contracted employment or taking a quick buyout and journeying to LA to pursue his writing dreams amid a room of Gen Z influencers. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Western, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Snarky, Magical Realism Male, BIPOC, Black, Over 40 Repped

< Back Carolyn Kras Manager: Doorie Lee, 42 - doorielee@42mp.com 213-354-9700 https://carolynkras.com Carolyn Kras has developed projects for 20th TV Studio, Escape Artists, Welle, and more. She was named to ISA's List of "Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch." Her former experience working at a law firm influenced her writing as she enjoys telling stories of ambitious people in high-stakes conflicts. Her awards include the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab, Alfred P. Sloan First Place Screenwriting Award, Visionary Playwright Award, New York Television Festival Official Selection, Plume & Pellicule Screenwriting Award, Middlebury Script Lab Selection, Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship, and a Fulbright to the United Kingdom. She has been a writer-in-residence at Ucross Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, Ragdale Foundation, and Anderson Center at Tower View. Her plays have been produced or developed at The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Theatre 40, Pacific Resident Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Stage Left Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Williams Street Rep, Theater Masters, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and more. Carolyn is an alum of the NBC Page Program, Women in Film Mentorship Program, and Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre Program. She has a B.A. in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Chicago, Carolyn is now based in LA. non-WGA Female CUTTHROAT (Teen Horror Feature - SCREAM meets CLUELESS) The competition to get into college is killer…literally. When a masked murderer targets top students at a prestigious prep school, Senior Class President Ruby and her friends attempt to solve the mystery of his identity—but they have to hurry before they become the next victims. NEW REALITY (Romantic Dramedy Feature - DESK SET meets UP IN THE AIR) When a major tech corporation flies international H-1B visa holders into the U.S. to cut costs by replacing its American staff, Maggie is directed to train Shen to take over her job. She's torn between sabotaging him to save her dream career and falling for him. THE SECOND CITY (TV drama/crime procedural - PEAKY BLINDERS meets BOARDWALK EMPIRE) In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an escaped convict invents a new identity and joins the police department as the city struggles to rise from the ashes. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Procedural, Romantic, Horror, Historical/Alternative History Female repped

< Back Austin Elliott AustinKentElliott@gmail.com ​ Austin most recently worked as a Writer's Assistant and Script Coordinator for both AMERICAN HORROR STORY and its episodic anthology spinoff, AMERICAN HORROR STORIES (of which he recently co-wrote his first episode). When he’s not going to therapy due to his research, Austin is writing his own scripts centering unconventional families navigating grief together. Having grown up with a severely disabled brother and a Mom battling cancer, he’s incredibly passionate about these themes and uses stories set in obscure and dangerous crime-centered worlds to explore them. Apart from writing, Austin is always cooking something new, taking blacksmithing classes (with plans to move into blade smithing), or traveling, and he spent four years as a beekeeper assisting in wild hive relocation. His art forgery pilot STATE OF THE ART recently won the Drama Teleplay Pilot Category at the 2023 Austin Film Festival. Honors & Awards Drama Teleplay Pilot Winner, Austin Film Festival - STATE OF THE ART - 2023 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - PERSONAS - 2023 2023 Second Rounder Austin Film Festival - FOR PARTS - 2023 Associate Member Male STATE OF THE ART (TV drama pilot) After being inducted into the world's most elite art forgery ring, a skeptical art student must prove her worth and keep their secret...or risk the same fate as the doomed artists before her. PERSONAS (TV drama pilot) After her son’s suicide, a grieving Mother uncovers his secret career of Virtual Reality Stripping. While impersonating him in the virtual world, she discovers his death wasn’t a suicide, but a murder…and the virtual club is tied to it. Now, she must infiltrate the club to get her revenge and in doing so, finally accept who her son was. FOR PARTS (TV drama pilot) After a freak accident destroys her restaurant and leaves her husband in a coma, a professional butcher decides to sell human remains to make ends meet. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller Male Repped

< 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 Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly Sage is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Honors & Awards Official Selection, Dances With Films - HELPER - 2021 Quarter-Finalist, Academy Nichol Fellowship - LULLABY - 2019 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 non-WGA Female LULLABY (Drama Feature) A recovering heroin addict returns home to substitute teach at her old high school and learns that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago attends the same school. SHE (Horror Feature) A troubled teen, sent to an all-girls wilderness therapy camp in Utah, must fight for survival when a mysterious female creature appears to be stalking and hunting them. WEDLOCK (Drama One Hour Episodic) Teenage best friends, Kent, a closeted gay man, and Frankie, a bisexual woman, enter a mixed-orientation “lavender” marriage in 1970, Los Angeles and struggle to stay together for the next 45 years. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Naturalistic Female unrepped

< Back Terri B Spaugh tbswriter@gmail.com ​ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3606322/ Terri Spaugh is an independent writer and story producer who grew up on the Texas-Louisiana border who also lived in Los Angeles and Chicago before rooting herself southwest of Austin. She grew up doused in mixed cultures, which serves as spice in her work. Born on her father’s birthday, she was the baby in the family and was dealt a lot of misery by her siblings. Her hero is her father, a gentle soul who worked all his life in the south Texas refineries that caused his fatal lung cancer. Acadian mixed with Scots-Irish, Terri’s family history includes her many greats-ago uncle, Daniel Boone. After a divorce, she left her teaching and moved to a small town southwest of Austin where she worked as a geophysicist manager for a Scottish firm while completing both UCLA’s Graduate Professional Screenwriting Programs. She later co-founded the Texas Film Institute, wrote a sci-fi family feature FIELDS AFIRE and multiple short films, published in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and penned several novels. She credits fortitude for changing her narrative. Honors & Awards Finalist, ISA Thriller/Horror Competition - BAYAGOULA - 2021 Semifinalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriters Competition - CLINGING TO BONE - 2022 Semifinalist, InkTip Holiday Genre Contest - MIRACLE ON MAIN STREET - 2022 Co-writer: Lise Pyles non-WGA Female, Over 40, Over 55 CLINGING TO BONE (Southern gothic crime thriller) An aloof young woman suffering from PTSD returns to her hometown where her presence rekindles a killer’s desire for murder. BAYAGOULA (Southern gothic crime thriller) After a severe reprimand, a state trooper hides out in her childhood home and becomes embroiled in the disappearance of her Senator father and the corruption he’s sown. EL DESTINO (Period Western) A hapless farm boy, searching for his kidnapped cousin, joins forces with a priest-turned-gunfighter to redeem her from a Spanish flesh-trader. Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, Over 40, Over 55 unrepped

< Back Sabine El Gemayel Manager: Sarah Arnott, Zero Gravity Management - sarnott@zerogravitymanagement.com ​ http://www.sabineelgemayel.com Traumatic events from her childhood during the Persian revolution and the Lebanese wars shaped Sabine El Gemayel's personal interests and storytelling. She brings social issues to light with a particular focus on the socio-political differences between the Middle East and the United States, advocating for peace and dialog in a world of conflict. El Gemayel's goal is to shine light on the condition of women in conflict zones and how conscious leadership can empower communities. Her passion for filmmaking brought her to Los Angeles, where she resides since 1994. El Gemayel was awarded a screenwriting fellowship from Hedgebrook in 2019 for her screenplay BRINGING IT HOME, where she had the honor to work with acclaimed screenwriters Robin Swicord and Jane Anderson. DreamAgo offered her a fellowship for THE THREE OF US (2009) and BRINGING IT HOME (2012). non-WGA Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, Over 40 BRINGING IT HOME (Drama) When an American veteran falls pregnant, doctors dismiss her debilitating health issues, until an Iraqi refugee/former midwife explains the horrific pregnancy health risks associated with her exposure to depleted uranium. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, International Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, Over 40 repped

< Back Garret Williams garretwilliams@hotmail.com 323-854-1893 https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0930621 Born and raised in Minneapolis, Garret began making short films in college before attending the American Film Institute's Master's program. His feature SPARK (writer/director), starring Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker, was a Sundance Filmmakers Lab project. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to Berlin (Berlinale) and many others around the world. Garret won Best Director at the Urbanworld Film Festival. Multiple film organizations have supported Garret’s screenplays. HYENAS was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab project. MUDPUPPY was a Film Independent Screenwriters Lab Project, was selected for Tribeca All Access, and was optioned by Sly Dog films. His screenplay LOST DOG was chosen for the Film Independent Screenwriters and Directors Labs, was a Fast Track project at the LA Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Screenplay and the Gordon Parks Award at the IFP Film Market. LOST DOG was also selected for the WGA Feature Writer's Access Project. Garret’s work as a Writer/Director/Producer of shorts screened at SXSW (THE RISE), New Directors/New Films at the MOMA & Sundance(Short SPARK), and a long list of festivals, domestic and international, earning multiple awards. His shorts (SPARK and BB GUN) aired on Showtime Networks. He is a member of the DGA and is a Sundance Institute Fellow, Film Independent Fellow, and Tribeca Film Institute Fellow. Garret serves as an Adjunct Professor at Occidental College, teaching Advanced Screenwriting. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black, Multi-Ethnic LOST DOG (Dramatic Thriller) Lost Dog is a character-driven thriller, set in 90s Minneapolis, about a black, jaded, Animal Control Officer and his young trainee, as they follow the twisted trail of a racist serial dog abuser and killer. MUDPUPPY (Dark Comedy) A brown comedy about a lost and lonely man who finds love in the toilet. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Limited Series, Dark, Naturalistic Male, BIPOC, Black, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

< Back Billie Jo Mason lapdawg3@gmail.com 805-907-1500 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7620465/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 As a lifelong reader of science fiction and fantasy, Billie Jo wanted to be an astronaut so she studied electrical engineering in college until she realized that an inner ear problem was going to keep her from actually going to space, so she became... a writer! Billie has worked in the story departments and as a union story analyst at most of the major studios and William Morris, though her claim to fame is smuggling a rescued baby chicken into the story department at MGM and keeping it in the script library (long story). Billie recently wrapped the room on the Apple+ show SUGAR (starring Colin Farrell) and working with showrunner Mark Protosevich as his writer's assistant. A native of Los Angeles, Billie rarely resorts to chicken smuggling. Honors & Awards Participant, Meryl Streep/Writer’s Lab – The Cargo - 2015 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship – The Cargo - 2018 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - SPEEDWAY - 2022 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE CARGO Sci-Fi/Thriller Feature Comp: No Way Out As mankind loses the war against ruthless alien invaders, a traumatized military pilot sent to retrieve a top-secret cargo is stranded with her crew on a crippled transport orbiting Saturn and hunted by the aliens – with one onboard posing as human. SPEEDWAY Sci-fi (futuristic)/Heist Feature Comps: Oceans 11 meets The Italian Job In the near future, all driving is outlawed and automatic cars rule the Speedway at 250 m.p.h., until one driver and her team outwit the system to pull off a seemingly-impossible bank heist and daring escape, for profit, thrills and ultimately revenge. FALLEN ANGEL (AT WORLD’S END) TV PILOT Comps: Altered Carbon/The Expanse 300 years in the future, the teenage granddaughter of Earth’s most powerful and immoral despot flees Earth pursued by agents of her grandfather only to be trapped on the most dangerous planet in the galaxy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Science, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA Female, 40+ repped

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