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< Back Elizabeth Ditty izzi.ditty@gmail.com - Rep: Seth Nagel 816-547-8990 Having grown up on Disney & Days of Our Lives, Elizabeth Ditty fell for rule-bending escapism & fairytale love stories early on. Now she writes across genres about earnest characters struggling through coming-of-middle-age crises (& usually finding romance along the way). She's a former Story Incubator fellow and has been an Austin Film Festival semifinalist. Elizabeth is based in Kansas City where she's raising two rule-bending children of her own. She’s repped by Seth Nagel. THAT BITCH Feature | Horror Comedy OFFICE SPACE x THE EXORCIST When three burned-out coworkers are kidnapped by their toxic boss, they must troubleshoot their way to escape before she feeds them to her demon-possessed corgi. 'TIS THE GODDAMN SEASON Feature | Christmas Romantic Comedy IT'S CHRISTMAS, CAROL! x SWEET HOME ALABAMA When she returns to her Christmas-obsessed hometown for the first time in 15 years, a soap opera star on the verge of a career breakthrough must face the lover she left behind — and whether she made a mistake all those years ago. THE FAMILY JEWELS Feature | Dramedy THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU x SABRINA In the days before their mother’s funeral, a newly-jilted former trust fund kid leaves her siblings in the lurch when she embarks on an emergency road trip to discover the truth about her parents’ marriage, her mother’s massive jewelry collection, and herself.

< Back Danielle Tjoelker http://DanielleTjoelker.com Danielle Tjoelker is an award-winning screenwriter who writes where resistance meets romance, and power meets partnership. A former corporate leader turned storyteller, Danielle channels a decade of managing global teams into emotionally charged narratives about ambition, dignity, and belonging. Her genre-spanning portfolio includes dramas like Sexually Speaking (Page Turner & ISA Fast Track Winner), workplace comedies like Garbage People (Creative World Awards Winner), and horror features like Ravenous (CineStory Feature Retreat). Her latest pilot, Speedway, follows two women fighting to dominate motorsport in an industry that doesn’t want them there — a story about legacy, rivalry, and rewriting the rules of power. Danielle’s writing lives at the intersection of grit and grace — emotional stories with social bite, told through flawed, driven characters who refuse to be reduced. A Coverfly Top 1% writer and Stage 32 Recommended Writer, she crafts stories that challenge convention and expand who gets to lead on screen. Honors & Awards Featured, The Stunt List - SEXUALLY SPEAKING - 2025 Featured, The Golden List: Best Unproduced Screenplays of the Year - SEXUALLY SPEAKING - 2024 Finalist, Cinestory TV Retreat - SPEEDWAY - 2025 GARBAGE PEOPLE 1/2 Hour TV, Workplace Dramedy Parks n’ Rec meets Schitt’s Creek When married white-collar criminals are sentenced to time served in waste management, they must shelve their egos to connect with their wholehearted coworkers and complete their community service without going to prison. SEXUALLY SPEAKING Hour TV, Historical Dramedy Julia meets Sex Education 
 In 1980, Dr. Ruth Westheimer teams up with an intrepid producer to launch the radio show that will make her the most famous sex therapist in the world, transforming the conversation about sex in America. SPEEDWAY Hour TV, Action Adventure Dramedy GLOW meets F1 In the male-dominated world of IndyCar racing, accomplished driver Rachel and unyielding track owner Courtney engineer a rivalry between their all-female team and an all-male team to gather sponsorships and climb the ranks of the Indy 500.

< Back Heather Huntington Sheree Guitar, Sheree Guitar Entertainment 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 Episodic Writer's Lab - PILGRIMAGE - 2019 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - THE BOOTY EMBARGO - 2009 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? RACHEL III Single camera comedy pilot - Richard III via Ten Things I Hate About You When back-brace-wearing loser Rachel Gloucester can't win over the popular kids at her high school by buying her way onto the student council, she decides to kill them instead. Because if you can't beat 'em, hire a hitman to make it look like an accident.

< Back Lisa Jeanne Rosenberg thewholestory@comcast.net Lisa Rosenberg is an AFI Screenwriting graduate and a narrative screenwriter focused on dramas, coming-of-age, and political thrillers. CURE, a thriller, was a Semifinalist for the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Writers’ Lab and Second Round in the 2022, 2021, and 2020 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions. A PLACE CALLED HOME, a political drama, was a 2024 Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition and previously an Independent Film Week selection. GRAFT, a period coming-of-age, won a 2023 Puffin Foundation grant for development as a stage play and was Second Round in the 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. CRAWL SPACE, a psychological drama adapted from the novel by Edie Meidav, was a 2015 Finalist for the New York Women in Film & Television Writers' Lab. Recent contracts include script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing CLIPPED WINGS (working title), a dramatic feature for Front Row Productions; co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions; and writing A PRAYER, a script for a short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher. Earlier projects she has written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, and a nomination for a Peabody Award. Honors & Awards Bold Voice Award and Semifinalist, NYWIFT Writers’ Lab – CURE – 2025 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition – GRAFT – 2025 Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – CURE – 2025 CURE (Political Thriller) When a gifted Nigerian medical student invents a malaria vaccine derived from sea life, he must challenge a powerful drug company bent on co-opting his work and patenting the creatures from which the vaccine would be made. GRAFT (Coming-of-Age) In 1903, a nineteen-year-old street girl, impersonator, and thief gains an unexpected chance to recreate herself on the stage, which may enable her to transform who she can be in real life. CRAWL SPACE (Psychological Thriller) When an unrepentant war criminal secretly returns home, desperate to clear his name, he meets a troubled drifter whose story mirrors his own, forcing him to run again to finally face what he has become.

< Back Katherine Ruppe katherine.ruppe@gmail.com Katherine is drawn to inspiring real life stories and twisty mysteries revolving around themes of resilience, courage, and redemption. Her Humanitas New Voices-winning TV drama, LIFTOFF, was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Grant and selected for the Netflix-sponsored Film Independent Episodic Lab. Her thriller feature, TRUE NORTH, is an Athena List Winner, Nicholl Fellowship Top 30, and set to be produced by Resonate Entertainment. Katherine’s passion for story-telling was sparked while hitchhiking the Australian Outback, shooting Super 8 film, and absorbing tales of the Aboriginal Dreamtime. She has developed an original crime drama pilot with WBTV and won fellowships in the PGA Power of Diversity Workshop and Film Independent Screenwriter Lab. A former camera operator in the International Cinematographer’s Guild, Katherine worked with renown DPs on movies, docs, and TV. She’s originally from Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, where she raced in rodeos and campaigned for her Congressman father in way too many parades. Honors & Awards Winner, Humanitas New Voices Fellowship – LIFTOFF – 2021 Fellow, Film Independent Episodic Lab – LIFTOFF – 2020 Winner, Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant – LIFTOFF – 2020 LIFTOFF (TV Drama – HIDDEN FIGURES / THE RIGHT STUFF) LIFTOFF intercuts the true story of America’s first six female astronauts – who blast through the brotherhood of spaceflight in 1978 – with the heartrending Challenger disaster, which claims the life of one of our first women and spurs Sally Ride to uncover NASA secrets while keeping her own. TIME BOMB (TV Drama Thriller – à la HOMELAND) An impulsive female Undercover Agent teams with a discerning FBI Psychologist to infiltrate and take down a network of lone wolf extremists. Conflict flares when the first “time bomb” they must defuse is the Undercover’s own brother, forcing her into the heart of darkness that is domestic terrorism. IN/JUSTICE (TV Crime Drama – YELLOWSTONE / JUSTIFIED) A fearless half-Blackfeet detective returns to her rugged Montana hometown to untangle the conspiracy of her activist mother’s murder – battling the FBI, greedy oil interests, and Blackfeet militants – forever upending her delicate balance between the Native and white worlds.

< 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 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.

< Back Sofia Drummond-Moore sofiadrummondmoore@gmail.com Coverfly The Black List Sofia has a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from Knox College and a Masters Degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where she was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist and won the Writers Room Ready Award. Sofia primarily gets excited about drama, horror and thriller stories with a specific interest in strange historical curiosities, LGBTQ+ stories and those focused on female protagonists. She believes ghost stories can be some of the most important stories. Her prose writing has been published in New Delta Review, Pithead Chapel, Door Is A Jar Magazine, Cleaver Magazine and many others. She has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sofia has worked as an intern at Conner Literary and Ghost House Pictures, as a writers assistant to a prominent author, and as an executive producer on a teen mystery series for streaming. She is currently a freelance writer for prose and film. Her short film THE LAST BIRTHDAY, about the Romanov family, was the Winner of Berlinale European Film Market Premier, nominee for the European Independent Film Awards, selection for The Still Voices International Film Festival, The Southside Film Festival and Mammoth Film Festival . When she's not writing Sofia has been a figure skater, a museum curator, fever specialist, tree devotee, nostalgia expert and gravestone attendee. Honors & Awards Winner, Big Break Final Draft Competition - ADA - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival - RIKO'S CIRCLE - 2024 Finalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Award - QUIET BODIES - 2023 QUIET BODIES (Historical Drama) Based on the true stories of ballerinas who burned to death on stage in the 1860s. Paris 1861, a young dancer joins the famous ballet only to be surrounded by persecution and danger, yet through the love of another dancer she finds hope and rebellion. CLY (Psychological thriller) A woman still grieving the sudden loss of her daughter lands the lead role of Clytemnestra in a retelling of the Greek tragedy Agamemnon only to be set on a path of violence she must escape from as the lines between reality and play blur. REGRESSION (Horror) A young student travels to Copenhagen to study the conservation of bog bodies but after trying past life regression therapy becomes convinced her body and her life are being taken over by a dangerous man from 280 BCE.

< 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. 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.

< Back Tiffany Warren t.warren.tx@gmail.com Tiffany Warren is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, building her creative brand under Theophania Visuals. Her work draws on horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and dark comedy to tell emotionally charged stories with complex characters navigating resilience, identity, and transformation. Alongside her writing, Tiffany brings a versatile background as a video editor, colorist, and 3D generalist, skills that sharpen her storytelling with both visual and technical insight. Her past projects include To and From (web series), the award-winning web series L.I.F.E. Anthologies, and collaborations such as Amber’s Closet. She is currently developing Goodnight Text, a proof-of-concept short that explores betrayal, possession, and empowerment through a cursed mirror. Passionate about collaboration and innovation, Tiffany is dedicated to creating original works that push genre boundaries while fostering community and meaningful connection. GOODNIGHT TEXT Horror The Black Phone meets Evil Dead (2013) After a painful betrayal, a timid young woman becomes bound to a cursed mirror and the vengeful spirit within, forcing her to confront her fears or be consumed by violent transformation. GOATMAN'S BRIDGE Horror Candyman meets Hereditary A troubled mother enters rehab to win back custody of her daughter, only to uncover her family’s connection to a Jim Crow–era murder on the land — awakening the vengeful Goatman and forcing her into a deadly battle that could end her bloodline. KIDS THESE DAYS Dark Comedy/Thriller Heathers meets Jawbreaker When a former nerd joins her school’s mean-girl clique, a botched attempt to silence a predatory coach leaves him dead — and the girls’ twisted cover-up spirals into a savage lesson in popularity, power, and survival.

< 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. 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.

< Back Edward Coffey edwardcoffey.writer@gmail.com https://www.edwardjcoffey.com Edward was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area to a schizophrenic, cancer-surviving single mother from the Philippines. An award-winning writer and producer, he’s also an Army combat veteran who has helped produce numerous Emmy- and Telly-winning commercials for the Department of Defense. After serving 8 ½ years in the Army, Edward returned to California and attained his master’s degree in writing for film, television & digital media. His work blends his experiences growing up poor with an immigrant single mother, using empathy to build rich and defined characters. Edward continues to serve as a jack-of-all-trades strategic communicator and content creator. TISOY (Half-hour dramedy - THE BEAR x CHEF) A Filipino NYC chef finds himself in the rural Midwest to help his wife care for her ailing mother and her estate but finds himself unemployable and unable to integrate. INDEFENSIBLE (Feature drama - MASS x RABBIT HOLE) A single father navigates grief in the aftermath of a mass shooting when a conspiracy theorist gaslights his small town demanding proof the tragedy occurred. RISE (Sci-Fi historical one-hour drama - BACK TO THE FUTURE x GLORY) A disgraced Special Forces officer and his diverse squad of modern soldiers travel back in time to the Civil War and become entangled in the clandestine effort to defeat the Confederacy.

< Back Lise Pyles lisepyles@gmail.com Lise Pyles earned SEMIFINALIST at NICHOLL and AFF (among other awards) and in 2018 was one of six writers chosen for a Black List/Women in Film Features Lab. There, she workshopped one-on-one with Oscar-winner Graham Moore (THE IMITATION GAME) and Amy Baer (MARY SHELLEY, BRIAN BANKS), and ended the week with a general at NETFLIX. Lise writes character-driven drama, historical and true event stories (original or adapted), and also enjoys lightening the mood by writing family features, YA and holiday rom-coms. In previous life chapters, Lise worked as a Department of Defense analyst, which led to world travel and nine years abroad, in Australia's Outback and Yorkshire, England. Around the edges of this career, she has held odd jobs (waitress, hotel desk clerk, substitute teacher, concierge), all of which make great grist for this writer's mill. Past publications include two books, as well as articles, short stories and essays for venues such as Denver Post, Writers Digest and Air&Space/Smithsonian Magazine. She worked as Story Editor for LIKE CLOCKWORK ENTERTAINMENT, has crewed on local (Texas) film projects and co-chaired the San Antonio Screenwriters Guild from 2014-2025. Honors & Awards Finalist, ISA Family & Holiday - A BODYGUARD FOR CHRISTMAS - 2021 Semifinalist, Stage32 Holiday Contest - THE LIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Final Draft's Big Break - SONG OF THE DOLPHIN - 2025 " INDEPENDENT LIVING Feature Drama A shy desk clerk must break through a crippling public speaking phobia in order to help an elderly genius create his legacy and to find a voice in her own life. JUMPER AND THE BONES Feature Dramedy (Adapted from novel IP) A naive oddball custodian accidentally sparks a feud with a street gang (The Bones) and must use his quirky homemade tactics to protect the nurse lady he adores and the sick little girl who depends on them both. MY HEART LIES HERE Historical Limited Series (Adapted from novel IP) In 1914 Colorado, a Scottish teen loses her father due to dangerous conditions in one of J.D. Rockefeller's mines, and to save her brother from a similar fate, she joins union mineworkers in what becomes the nation's bloodiest fight for worker rights -- the Ludlow Massacre.