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< 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 Gina DeAngelis deangelis.gina.m@gmail.com ​ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2391671/ 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 in a couple of decades, 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. Now a professional writer for 20+ years, she holds Master’s degrees in both history and screenwriting, and she 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, and even her darkest stories are ultimately life-affirming. Her scripts have been consistently honored by the Nicholl Fellowships, Austin Film Festival, PAGE Screenwriting Awards, Stowe Story Labs, and others. Recent releases include the indie feature EVERYTHING FUN YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO IN ALEDO, ILLINOIS (2023); thirteen commissioned documentary shorts STORIES OF WAR for the African American Veterans Memorial in New York; and her own horror short ASK FOR HELP has its European premiere in early 2024. Her film adaptation of the Pamela Painter story DOORS is in post-production. Gina’s previous work has appeared on PBS and was performed live for Queen Elizabeth II. Honors & Awards 2nd Place, CineStory Feature Retreat - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2023 Finalist, Film Pipeline Short Script Competition - DOORS - 2023 Best Family Feature Screenplay, Richmond Film Festival - MIA'S ACCIDENTALS - 2022 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. 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. THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS (Murder mystery/thriller - think THE NAME OF THE ROSE, DOUBT) When a judgmental young nun suspects that the death of her mother-superior was no accident, she must identify which of her sisters is the murderer—and why—before she becomes the next victim, while suppressing her attraction to the violent man who protects her. Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Bittersweet, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Alexa Oona Schulz alexaschulz@mac.com ​ http://alexa-schulz.com Alexa Oona grew up in Hamburg, Germany, with the handed-down responsibility for the Holocaust, but more specifically with a Nazi grandfather who after the war worked for the church as a deacon in youth exchange programs with teenagers from Africa and the Arab world – her mother calls him a hypocrite; Alexa Oona calls him a complex character. A Los Angeles resident since 2007, Alexa Oona writes in English and German and is fluent in Spanish. She is passionate about crime (writing crime that is) – but has also been paid for dramedy writing - which proves that even Germans can be funny! Alexa Oona's produced writing credits include TV court show episodes and a prime-time feature for ZDF (Germany) as well as numerous documentaries (e.g. for ARTE) that she directed. In 2006, her award-winning documentary début WEEKEND WARRIORS, a humorous film that follows the lives of four German players of American-style football in Berlin, was theatrically released in Germany by one of the largest multiplex chains. non-WGA Female, Over 40 ANDIE FROM GERMANY (Short-form Serialized Series - Dark Comedy) A failing but success-obsessed German actress gets more than she expected after stealing a dead Hollywood starlet’s identity; now she has to successfully nail her lines and a criminal scheme. AMERICAN CRIME: MEXICO CITY (Hourlong Procedural Series Pilot - Police Drama ) When a PTSD-afflicted Special Agent is paired with a carefree FBI linguist to solve American crimes in Mexico City, she is thrust into solving the mysterious case of a deadly sound attack while struggling to navigate cultural differences. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Historical/Alternative History, International Female, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Julie Dare julieannedare@gmail.com Rep: Jacob Snyder, Manager - Sugar23 Coverfly At 13, Julie Dare was knocked out of The National Spelling Bee by a tichorrhine, an extinct woolly mammoth. This established her lifelong missions: to conquer the written word and exact vengeance on tichorrhines. In the years since, she’s worked as a radio copywriter and voice talent, served as a staff writer on two seasons of the streaming drama series 5TH WARD, taught Writing for Film and Television in the MFA program at Full Sail University, wrote audio description writer for hundreds of hours of film and television (including RESERVATION DOGS, BLACK LIGHTNING, RIVERDALE, GREY’S ANATOMY, OKJA, and THE NUN), and has authored over 40 illustrated children’s books. She's been mentored by acclaimed writer/director Nancy Meyers and assisted director Corin Hardy on the horror feature THE NUN for New Line Cinema. Julie currently works as a Script Consultant and is working on her first novel. And while no one's yet resurrected a tichorrhine for her to slay in real life, Julie's bard gnome is prepared with a killer vicious mockery spell should one appear within her D&D campaign. non-WGA Female, 40+ MY CLONE'S AN A-HOLE feature comedy When spoiled slacker CJ’s dad replaces her with a “perfect” clone to have at his side for his bid for Florida governor, CJ’s locked away with her remaining clones, all of whom embody her worst flaws - flaws she must conquer in order to reclaim her life from the a-hole clone who’s assumed her identity. A DEAD GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE Half hour TV Drama With the help of a book of life advice from her older sister, a spirited but disillusioned teen finds the best advice on life from someone who chose to die. BIG WORDS Half hour TV Comedy Big Words follows the Gordon family - an orthodontist, an author, and a former National Spelling Bee champ - all of whom have complicated relationships with words and with one another. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Western, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Horror Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Jeremy Palmer Jeremy_Palmer@rocketmail.com ​ http://JeremyWritesWordsGood.com Jeremy Palmer died once. But he came back. Along with temporary death, his 4 open heart surgeries also pointed him toward a career in disability and special education advocacy, culminating when Jeremy Palmer Day became an actual thing in Denver. Jeremy enjoys telling stories about outsiders courageously transcending barriers to accomplish the unthinkable. He received an MFA from USC in Writing for Screen & Television, the Sloan Screenwriting Grant, and the Tribeca Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize. His first feature, DETAINED, with Kinogo Pictures, is currently in post-production. He also likes Legos. non-WGA Male, Disabled THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES (Historical Drama Feature - A BEAUTIFUL MIND/THE IMITATION GAME/THE KINGS SPEECH) While recovering from World War I, Dr. Freddy Banting battles insecurities, lingering PTSD, and credit-hungry colleagues in his triumphant struggle to bring the miracle drug Insulin to those dying from Diabetes in the 1920s. THE ZIPPER CLUB (Autobiographical Dramedy Feature - THE BIG SICK/THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES) A young wife is plunged into unknown territory when her husband needs open-heart surgery. She's forced to confront life & death medical decisions in hope of proving her “adulting” abilities to his imperious mother-in-law and, most of all, to herself. STANDARD DEVIATION (Horror Feature - THE FACULTY/LITTLE MONSTERS) Damon is having a bad day. He hates his teaching job. His ex-girlfriend is engaged. And an experimental “brain drink” has turned the students into cannibalistic monsters. Now, Damon must rely on his Special Ed class if he and his colleagues want to live to see the final bell. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History Male, Disabled unrepped

< Back Anthony Sclafani, Jr. anthony.sclafani.jr@gmail.com ​ Anthony discovered the craft of screenwriting from a coworker while working at HBO Studio Productions in NYC. Going off the recommendation of his screenwriting professor at NYU’s Continuing Education program, he moved to LA where he earned his MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory and became a Disney Feature Fellowship recipient for his feature screenplay, PRICELESS. The fellowship award helped him land his first agent and manger. Soon after, Anthony wrote and directed an award-winning, independent, comedy, pilot, ROOMIES. He credits its success to when he had the privilege to shadow-direct James Burrows on an episode of WILL AND GRACE . Anthony has returned to his hometown where he continues to write on spec and hone his craft while he raises his two sons. non-WGA Male CRICKETS IN MANHATTAN ( Feature Romantic Comedy) The day before an interview for a big promotion, Chris Donovan calls in sick to spend the day with his college sweetheart while his rival chases after him, hoping to expose his lies and win the job himself UNTIL DEBT DUE US PART (Half-hour TV, Comedy Pilot) In order to inherit a family trust fund, which comes when getting married, a financially desperate schoolteacher comes up with a plan to marry her gambling ex boyfriend, who’s also in debt. Romantic Male unrepped

< Back Lisa Gold lisasmgold@gmail.com ​ http://www.lisamgold.com Writer/director Lisa Gold grew up all over North America, which left her confused and also Canadian. A dual citizen, she now lives in Long Beach, which looks out at oil derricks disguised as palm trees. Perfect for Lisa, who loves dressing up painful truths in unique genre material. As a filmmaker, Lisa wrote and/or directed eight award-winning short films which played in 100 festivals. Her current anti-gun violence short satire has played in 56 festivals. Lisa’s screenplays have won the CineStory Screenwriting Awards and the Nashville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize; her scripts reached the Finals of the Nicholl Fellowships, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and Script Pipeline TV Competition. She has recently twice been an Austin Semi-Finalist with a feature and a TV pilot. Lisa wrote one middle grade children’s novel based on her award-winning family action-adventure feature script. She is completing a second YA sci-fi novel based on her recent YA TV pilot. Lisa has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from UCLA. Working her way downward, she will soon have an AA degree in film. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory, Lisa performed improv comedy at crappy coffeehouses in LA. When she gets stuck in a script, Lisa improvises her way out by recalling the scent of stale coffee, or the grandeur of swaying palm fronds and oil production. Honors & Awards Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA - 2022 Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - FOREGLOW - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival - YONGE STREET STRIP - 2019 non-WGA Female, Over 40 YONGE STREET STRIP (TV drama/true crime pilot – LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE meets BLOODLINE) In 1977 Toronto, after 16 year-old Ruth learns her Orthodox Jewish family owns a strip club, an infamous murder occurs, convulsing the city. Ruth’s family gets exposed and her dad is implicated. Inspired by true events. TRIPPIN’ (YA sci-fi time travel pilot - DEAD TO ME meets CRUEL SUMMER) After her little sister is killed, snarky artist Lexy, 16, loses her voice. Along with brother Kyle, 17, she travels back to the past to save their sister, but instead ends up creating alternate realities, upending her family and her high school’s social order. FOREGLOW (Sci-fi thriller feature - WILD THINGS meets SOURCE CODE) Barista Heather, 31, uses out-of-body sexual experiences to time travel in order to save boyfriend Danny, 36, from being fatally shot. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Snarky Female, Over 40 unrepped

< Back Kimberley Ann Sparks kim@kimsparks.com ​ http://www.kimsparks.com Kimberley Ann Sparks is an award-winning screenwriter who works in film, television, and video games. She’s written episodes of preschool series which have been broadcast on Treehouse, TVO, and BBC Kids. She’s also written scripts and dialogue for AAA video games, including ASSASSIN'S CREED ODYSSEY and GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER. Kim has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is also a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Prime Time Television Program and UCLA’s Professional Screenwriting Program. She has taught writing courses (film, television, video games, radio) at universities and colleges in Toronto, and she’s currently teaching screenwriting at Toronto Metropolitan University. Kim’s scripts have placed as a quarter-finalist and semi-finalist in a number of screenwriting contests, including the Page Awards, BlueCat Screenwriting Competition, and Scriptapalooza, and her short script, THE GATEKEEPER, won the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition. She has pitched at a number of festivals and conferences, including the Banff Media Festival and the Female Eye Film Festival. Honors & Awards WGA Video game writing nomination (member of writing team nominated) - ASSASSIN'S CREED ODYSSEY - 2019 Quarter-finalist, BlueCat Screenplay Competition (Drama Feature) - THE BONUS DAY - 2016 Quarter-finalist, Page Awards (Drama Feature) - THE BONUS DAY - 2016 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE BONUS DAY (Feature drama) An elderly man and woman meet at a euthanasia clinic. When their deaths are unexpectedly postponed, they spend the day together, fall in love, then must decide if they should go through with their procedures. Character-driven, Female-centric, Medical, YA, Children's, Animation, Bittersweet Female, 40+ I am not currently repped.

< Back Mark DeCarlo markdecarlotv@gmail.com ​ https://www.markdecarlo.com/ Mark is a Founding member of THE SECOND CITY Hollywood. In addition to hosting 1000+ hours of TV, for the past decade, Mark has written, hosted and produced Emmy Award-winning, man-on-the-street comedy for ABC’s WINDY CITY LIVE. On the big screen, Mark produced, co-wrote (with Ryan Rowe), and stars in the animated 2024 Asymmetric Studios feature: PINOCCHIO & THE WATER OF LIFE. Mark partnered with VES award-winning VFX futurist Julian Sarmiento to found CREATIVE DISRUPTION PARTNERS, a real-time animation studio that produced live cartoon events at LA COMICCON, the first to feature a cartoon on a real stage with real humans. His first sale of 2024 is SUCKERZ, a comedy feature about two Geeks trying to save the world from an alien invasion will also feature CDP’s blend of naturalistic and grotesque animated characters sharing the screen with humans… for a laugh. His 3D animated 2023 spec pilot MEET THE WALKERZ is the story of the first family of zombies to go vegetarian as they re-integrate into the human world. Currently, Mark is seeking new management to market his spec pilot PROCESSING: EARTH, an alien mocumentary focusing on the daily life of ‘Losers of the Galaxy.' The show employs CDP’s ability to feature animated characters and humans in the same frame, live to air. Mark is 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 Multi-ethnic, 40+ 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: EARTH (Sci-Fi, Adult Animation, Comedy - think THE OFFICE) The comedic frictions aboard EV 996, a cloaked alien vessel crewed by the "Losers of the Galaxy" - disgruntled, inept, and grotesque ET's responsible for centuries of human abductions, intensify as the deadline for an Alien Invasion of Earth approaches. ​ Multi-ethnic, 40+ unrepped

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

< Back Marty Lang Jason Bellitto and Mark Myers, Citizen Skull Management JasonB@citizenskull.com Coverfly Marty Lang is the Director of the MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media at the University of Georgia. He has written and directed two feature films, STAY WITH ME, Best Feature Film at the 2023 South Georgia Film Festival, and RISING STAR, released worldwide by Content Film. His web series writing credits include MAX AND FRIENDS!, Best Comedy Writing winner at the 2022 International Academy of Web Television Awards, and THE DAILY, a SeriesFest 2020 world premiere. He is also a prolific indie film producer, whose credits include the 2020 Sundance world premiere web series THE RIDE, the 2016 Indie Spirit Award nominee OUT OF MY HAND, and CHOMPY & THE GIRLS, featuring Udo Kier, released in 2021 by Freestyle Digital Media. His book THE SELF-SUSTAINING FILMMAKER, about crowdfunding and community filmmaking, will be published by Focal Press in 2024. Honors & Awards Best Feature Film, Southeastern New England Film Festival - STAY WITH ME - 2022 Best Comedy Writing, International Academy of Web Television - MAX AND FRIENDS - 2022 Jury Prize, Best Arkansas Film, Arkansas Shorts Film Festival - THE DAILY - 2022 non-WGA Male, Disabled, Over 40 TECHNOCRACY (One hour sci-fi drama) A skittish social media director uses deepfake audio and video to help her mother become Missouri's governor, which brings tragic results - and a new mission that will utilize her unique technology skills. THE DAILY (Half hour drama) An intrepid college journalist discovers a conspiracy at her university, but must navigate the politics of journalism to get the story out into the world. Based on Lang's award-winning webseries. Character-driven, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Naturalistic Male, Disabled, Over 40 repped

< 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. non-WGA Male, Asian, Multi-Ethnic 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. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Science, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, Anthology, Limited Series Male, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped