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< Back Jami Brandli jamibrandli@gmail.com http://www.jamibrandli.com Coverfly Jami Brandli has developed TV projects for Fish Ladder and Jonathan Steinberg and Dan Shotz, and was a finalist for the Disney/ABC Writing Program. She’s an award-winning playwright whose storytelling is inspired by the chaos of growing up in her family’s Italian restaurant in Jersey, her love of myths, mysteries and magical realism, her background in education and her desire to bring to light the lives of extraordinary people who you most likely never heard of. She is the winner of the 2023 Jane Chambers Award and the Stanley Drama Award for her play The Magician’s Sister. Her play BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) was named on The Kilroys List and was a LA Times Critics’ Choice. Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, NY Theatre Workshop, Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Center Theatre Group, among other venues. Additional accolades: 2022 Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop. Nominated for Best Playwriting for an Original Play; Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Humanitas Prize PLAY LA playwright fellow. Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Drama. Upcoming play productions/presentations for 2025: The Magician’s Sister at Center for the Arts at Kayenta, St. George, UT. O: A Rhapsody in Divorce at Outside In Theatre, LA. The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project at Coachella Valley Rep. She has her MFA from Emerson College and teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program. Visit her website for more info about upcoming projects. Honors & Awards The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award - Winner - The Magician's Sister - 2023 The Writers Lab supported by Meryl Streep - Quarterfinalist - MADAM - 2022 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE GUARDIANSHIP Feature - Buffy meets The Karate Kid with a side of Beowulf Outsider teen Ellie is shocked to discover her family are Guardians, secret warriors who protect their town from evil creatures hell-bent on killing humans. As she's mentored by her stern grandmother, Ellie struggles to be a “normal” teen while training to save humanity. HOPE Hour YA sci-fi thriller Set in the near future, HOPE is LOST in a sanatorium with an unlikely female teen hero who goes from party girl to one badass fighter tasked with gathering a motley crew to save the world from a superbug and a corporate government conspiracy. MADAM Hour drama Based on the extraordinary life of Norma Wallace. New Orleans, 1934. When Alvin Karpis, FBI’s “most wanted”, overstays his welcome at Norma’s brothel, she makes a secret deal with the FBI to help capture Karpis. With one false move, Norma could not only lose everything she has fought for…but also her life. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, YA, Magical Realism Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Brandy N. Carie brandyncarie@gmail.com http://www.brandyncarie.com Coverfly Brandy N. Carie is a playwright, screenwriter, and director from Minnesota who writes about what happens when nice girls get mad. Her furious abortion-themed horror flick BABY won the 2024 Athena Film Festival Abortion Pipeline Project, was featured on the Dead List, and is a Moonshot Feature Accelerator Semi-Finalist. Carie is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and a winner of the 2019 Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award and the Sloan/CMU Screenwriting Competition. Her work for the stage often intersects with the digital: her immersive opera THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY was released as an animated short by New Opera West, and her collection of short puppet plays adapting Jane Austen’s oeuvre, ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN, was produced with D.T. Burns as a web series. Carie’s playwriting has been supported by numerous theaters and residencies, including Barter Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Recently, Carie’s apocalyptic stage play TOMORROW GAME was published by Samuel French. MFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Honors & Awards Winner, Athena Abortion Pipeline Project - BABY - 2024 Official Selection, Dead List - BABY - 2024 First Place, Sloan/CMU Screenplay Competition - LOVE, GENOME - 2019 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ BABY Body Horror Feature - MISERY meets MIDSOMMAR While recovering at an isolated cabin, a traumatized teacher desperately pursues an abortion amidst paranoia that her boyfriend is trying to trap her. When suspicion turns to certainty she becomes reckless, aiming to regain control of her body — or die trying. SPIDER HOUSE!!! Body Horror Feature / Creature Feature - ARACHNOPHOBIA meets THE FLY When a cash strapped couple buys a spider-infested fixer-upper, they take extreme measures to save the house that is trying to destroy them. Will the affordable housing keep these Millennials together? Or will the spiders tear them apart? LEGEND OF A WEIRD GIRL Horror Dramedy / hour long - CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA meets MIDNIGHT MASS After a sheltered Lutheran purity girl is bitten by a werewolf, she tries to figure out if her symptoms are puberty or lycanthropy, desperate to control her body before it derails her quest to upgrade her nerdy image. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Horror, Dark Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Karol Ruth Silverstein karol@karolruthsilverstein.com https://www.karolruthsilverstein.com/ Karol is an award-winning children’s book author and screenwriter. Her debut young adult novel, Cursed , was loosely drawn from her experience of being diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at thirteen. A funny, frank, and unsentimental take on the “sick kid” genre, Cursed won the prestigious Schneider Family Book Award in 2020. Karol’s feature dramedy screenplay YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND was developed in the Film Independent Screenwriter’s Lab and was a Writer’s Guild of American West Feature Writer’s Access Project honoree. She lives in West Hollywood with two excessively fluffy cats. Honors & Awards Schneider Family Book Awards - CURSED - 2020 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection - CURSED - 2019 Writers Guide of America West/Feature Writers Access Project - YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND - 2016 non-WGA Female, Disabled, Over 40, Over 55 YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND (Dramedy Feature) Pie (9), an overly dramatic crybaby and Beck (10), her budding lesbian sister, nearly break apart along with their divorcing parents in the summer of ‘75. RACE TO ROMANCE (Romantic Comedy Feature in the vein of THE PROPOSAL) Former lovers – and co-hosts of a fading reality show – must work together for the first time since a messy breakup during hiatus and try to save their show. CURSED (YA Novel, Charlesbridge Teen, 2019) Funny, frank and full of F-bombs, young teen Erica navigates being newly diagnosed with a painful chronic illness amid the normal tragedies of 9th grade. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Slapstick, Snarky Female, Disabled, Over 40, Over 55 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 Reenita Malhotra Hora Manager: One Moorer Management ; james@onemoorer.com reenita.malhotra@gmail.com 415 531 8280 http://www.reenita.com Coverfly Reenita is the unrivaled 'Nora Ephron' of South Asian storytelling, crafting tales as vibrant as her culture—unapologetically Indian, filled with humor, and starring gloriously imperfect characters. LA Weekly hails her as a top Indie writer bringing Indian culture and humor to American audiences. A former journalist and editor, she has written for National Geographic Kids, Disney India, Cartoon Network Asia, The New York Times, CNN, Radio Television Hong Kong, and Bloomberg. Her accolades include the Eric Hoffer Book Award, IndieReader Discovery Award, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award, Script2Comic, Launchpad, and Emerging Screenwriters awards, with Operation Mom receiving second-round consideration for the Sundance Institute Development Slate. Beyond books, she’s the creator of two hit podcasts: The True Fiction Project (where reality collides with fiction) and Shadow Realm (a portal to thrilling narrative fiction). She’s also honed her screenwriting skills through Writers’ Bootcamp and Roadmap Writers, proving she means business. Her book Ace of Blades and screenplay Shadow Realm have been optioned, and coming soon is Festival of Lights (HarperCollins). Discover her world of humor, fantasy, and captivating stories at reenita.com . Honors & Awards Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award, OPERATION MOM 2023 Sundance Institute Development Slate, OPERATION MOM 2024 Emerging Screenwriters Finalist, SHADOW REALM, 2024 Finalist, Screencraft, FAMILY HONOR (AND OTHER LIES) 2024 Finalist, LaunchPad, VERMILION HARVEST, 2023 WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, 40+ OPERATION MOM Feature; YA, Romcom - PARENTTRAP meets FREAKY FRIDAY with the tone of NEVER HAVE I EVER Desperate to get her obsessive mom off her back, a feisty Indian-American eleventh-grader becomes her mother’s secret matchmaker only to find love herself. SHADOW REALM Feature Kids/Family, Animation - PERCY JACKSON meets VEDIC MYTHOLOGY When an angry, rebellious teen causes an accident confining his mother to a coma, he needs to battle the 10-headed demon king in the land of the Ramayana mythology to learn to conquer his own inner demon before journeying home to save his mother. UNITED COLORS TV -Half-hour single-cam; YA coming-of-age - DERRY GIRLS meets FRESH OFF THE BOAT A feisty Indian-American teen and her ride-or-die besties devise crazy schemes to persuade their no-nonsense principal into helping her skip college for the family business. Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Animation, International Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, 40+ repped

< 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 Timothy Mallon timothy.mallon87@gmail.com https://timothy-mallon.com/ Coverfly The Black List Timothy's work examines the intersection of mental health and relationships. Drawing from personal experience, he's passionate about using authentic storytelling to explore how mental health struggles affect the human condition. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot - Semifinalist -TIME ZONE - 2024 non-WGA Male, Disabled TIME ZONE International Police Procedural, Recurring Drama - The Bridge , Southland , Line of Duty Three different cities and three seemingly unrelated crimes propels the detectives investigating them into a multinational conspiracy. HELLWATER British Neo-Western, Recurring Drama - Tin Star , Longmire , Dark Winds A mixed-race ex-soldier returning to exact vengeance on his father's killer and save his family's rural British farm from financial ruin. Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Anthology, Dark, Naturalistic, International Male, Disabled unrepped

< Back Virtic Emil Brown virtic@artiststudioprods.com http://www.imdb.me/virticemilbrown Virtic Emil Brown is a writer/filmmaker. She is a part of the disabled community. Her recent screenplay FREE! was a recipient of Sundance Accessible Future Initiative. It is currently in development. Some of her writing credits include WILL UNPLUGGED (Randall Park), HINDSIGHT, and YOU’LL NEVER MEET MY NEW FRIENDS. Virtic’s film ON TOUR screened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival’s library. Since then, she has written and directed plays performed in festivals at EST/LA and The Vagrancy Theater. Virtic worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as the Oscar’s Press Guide Manager, handling domestic and international media outlets. Virtic recently directed two films for the Easterseals. She is currently shooting her feature documentary MLICSU starring Lee Pugsley. Virtic is also an actress who also appeared in shows like HOW TO HACK BIRTH CONTROL, THE SHIELD, and WITHOUT A TRACE. She is a Board Member of The Classical Theatre Lab. She is currently appearing as a core Foundation Worker on the new TV show LOOT. WGA Associate Member Female, BIPOC, Black, Disabled FREE! (Indie Feature Musical - think ONCE) In the final six days of their child’s life, the Bradys must confront their past, leading them to realize this is not the life God wanted for them when He gave their souls a body. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Coming-of-Age, YA, Naturalistic Female, BIPOC, Black, Disabled unrepped

< Back Kenneth Hicks kenny.hicks81@gmail.com James Moorer, One Moorer Media & Management https://www.obeliskmediasite.com/ As an optioned and repped writer Kenneth Hicks writes stories about heroes dealing with tremendous external pressures. Based in Los Angeles and half of a writing duo, they focus on protagonists who must stay grounded to fulfill their inherent responsibilities usually involving family and relationships. As a devoted single dad, Kenneth writes stories reflecting the struggle of fathers who will do whatever it takes to protect their loved ones. Kenneth is a world traveler from Cleveland, Ohio which allows his stories to speak not just to the multifaceted black experience, but the greater humanity that resonates in us all. While Kenneth is not a veteran he worked for years on a NATO Base in Kandahar Afghanistan in support of US troops as a civilian contractor. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black, 40+ FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING One-Hour TV | Crime / Family Drama - POWER meets THE SOPRANOS After his rap star little brother is murdered due to his involvement with a criminally run record label, a single dad takes his daughter into witness protection as he faces his demons to unravel what led to his brother’s death and get justice for his family. THE HARD WAY One-Hour TV | Sports / Period Drama - HEELS meets ENTOURAGE It’s 1985 and a small-town wrestling prodigy must fight his way to the top of the biggest league in America while dodging the pitfalls of stardom in order to care for his sick mother and pregnant girlfriend at home. THE PRYOR ENGAGEMENTS Feature | Romance / Comedy - HITCH meets THINK LIKE A MAN At a Crossroads between living his dream and facing his reality, a struggling actor finds himself engaged to three women simultaneously. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Thriller, Dark Male, BIPOC, Black, 40+ repped

< Back Mark DeCarlo markdecarlotv@gmail.com https://www.markdecarlo.com/ The Black List Mark is a Founding member of The Second City Hollywood. Mark has written, performed and produced Emmy Award winning current event comedy for ABC’s Windy City LIVE since 2012. On the big screen, Mark produced, co-wrote (with Ryan Rowe) and stars in the animated 2025 Asymmetric Studios feature: Pinocchio & the Water of Life. Mark partnered with VES award winning VFX futurist Julian Sarmiento to found Creative Disruption Partners, www.creating3d.com, to perform recurring livestream, 4K animation sketches on the Main Stage of LA ComicCon. His 2024 animated spec pilot, Meet the Walkerz, that chronicles the adventures of funny, vegetarian Zombies, sold to Pathbender Media. Currently, Mark is seeking new comedy/animation centric management to market future work, including his spec pilot: Processing: URTH. The show leverages CDP’s below-market VFX cost and unrivaled real time MoCap animation for TV. Mark is also the voice of pie-loving Hugh Neutron in “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.” Honors & Awards Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Performer - Windy City Live 2012, 2013, 2014 Associate Member Male, Latinx, 55+ SUCKERZ (Sci-Fi, Comedy, Thriller - think DON'T LOOK UP) A NASA intern and conspiracy podcast host infiltrate a New Age guru's cabal to thwart an alien/world government alliance to enslave 5% of humanity, by raising Earth's temperature while devouring the rest. PROCESSING: URTH Workplace hard comedy - Parks & Rec , What We Do in the Shadows To survive, an alien spaceship crew of disgruntled, inept failures, who for centuries have bungled human abductions, must immediately transform Planet Earth to enable an Alien Invasion. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History, Animation, Satire, Snarky, Late Night Male, Latinx, 55+ unrepped

< Back Matt Harry Manager: Dash Aiken, Romark Films - dash@romarkfilms.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1243167 Growing up in suburban Ohio, Matt quickly realized he was unlike other kids. While they were trading baseball cards, he was reading Naked Lunch. When they gossiped at football games, he snuck off to the library to write funny plays. In college, he found his fellow weirdos (filmmakers). Since then he has published four novels, sold a TV pilot, and created an interactive play. He also worked as an editor for 15 years. He's still weird. Honors & Awards Top 100, Launchpad Manuscript Contest - GHOST DICK - 2022 Finalist, Stowe Story Labs - VANISHING POINT - 2021 Semifinalist, Screencraft Comedy Competition - MONSTER COPS - 2022 WGA Associate Member Male, Over 40 MONSTER COPS (Half-hour Comedy) In a world where monsters are real and (somewhat) accepted by society, a tough ex-monster hunter and a vegan werewolf team up to catch those who break the law. EARWORM Feature Horror Unable to sleep, a young psychiatry student listens to a mysterious sleep podcast, and falls victim to increasingly dangerous hallucinations. SIX FIGURES (Feature Thriller) Four co-workers discover a chest filled with $6 million buried in the Mojave desert and decide to carry it out on foot, beginning a grueling two-day trek that culminates in paranoia, lies, and murder. Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Animation Male, Over 40 repped

< Back Kelly Jo Brick kellyjobrick@gmail.com https://kellyjobrick.com Kelly Jo Brick is a Sundance Fellow and alum of the Women In Film Writer/Showrunner Mentoring Program. She received specialized training through both the FBI and LAPD community academies and is a member of a national intelligence-gathering agency dedicated to protecting US infrastructures. Originally from a small town in the heart of Wisconsin’s dairy country, Kelly Jo developed a love for storytelling when as a child she’d gather up her stuffed animals and toy horses to create adventure after adventure. With degrees in creative writing and English, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin where she played trombone in the highly acclaimed Wisconsin Marching Band. She writes "The Bricks of Breaking In," an interview series for Final Draft that focuses on breaking in and growing your writing career and is currently the Vice Chair of the WGA Genre Committee. From crime and mysteries to underdogs and dysfunctional families, Kelly Jo is fascinated with building the journeys of characters put into situations where they have to struggle, grit, and grind through huge hurdles and do so with heart, perseverance, and passion. WGA Associate Member Female THE RIDGE (TV Crime Drama) A Las Vegas FBI agent exposes corruption in the police department of her suburban Pittsburgh hometown, resulting in her being appointed interim chief, set with the task of chasing down a powerful drug ring while also having to survive her wildly dysfunctional family. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Procedural Female unrepped