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- Jude Roth | IWC List
< Back Jude Roth 1juderoth@gmail.com 310.621.1697 http://www.juderoth.com ! ! ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. non-WGA Female ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller Female unrepped
- Lisa Kors | IWC List
< Back Lisa Kors lisamkors@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131495/ A daughter of immigrants, Lisa Kors was raised near Yonkers, NY. Her love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball with FBI guys and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe not so weird…?) By second grade, Lisa could tell a story that would scare the bejesus out of her friends. To this day, Lisa likes writing stories about good people making bad choices for excellent reasons. She is also an excellent parallel parker. Honors & Awards Coverfly Top 2% of Thriller/Horror TV Pilots - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 non-WGA Female, Non-binary THE DRAGON OF HANDALE TV, Drama Based on a popular British novel, The Dragon of Handale is a medieval whodunnit that follows a badass young widow who investigates a gruesome series of murders at the convent where bad nuns are sent to be punished. PRINCES' HOSPITAL TV, Drama (GREY'S ANATOMY x HOMELAND) Inspired by a real hospital in Saudi Arabia, PRINCES' HOSPITAL is a one-hour drama that follows the adventures of the extravagantly paid ex-pat doctors and nurses who treat only the 20,000 members of the royal family. Money, rules and secrets abound. FREAKY FURDAY Feature, Comedy Cat-astophe ensues when a pampered show dog and a scrappy feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes competition. Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Psychological, Horror, International Female, Non-binary unrepped
- Sage Wells | IWC List
< Back Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly IMDB Profile 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 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ 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, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped
- Jibreel Turner | IWC List
< Back Jibreel Turner jibreel.turner@gmail.com James Moorer, One Moorer Media & Management As an optioned and repped writer Jibreel Turner 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, he writes gritty TV and Features about strong-willed intelligent fathers with a moral compass, taking drastic measures and creative steps to achieve their goals. Jibreel's experience as a disabled combat veteran from Philly allows his stories to speak not just to the multifaceted black experience, but the greater humanity that resonates in us all. Honors & Awards GREEN OR GO: CHASING THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM Docuseries (Writer, Director, Producer) - In Post Production. THE PRYOR ENGAGEMENTS Feature Optioned by Tecknology Enterprises - 1/2024 Stage 32 - THE HARD WAY - TV Pilot Top 1% included in the “Best of Stage 32” Lookbook (2022). non-WGA Male, Black, Disabled, 40+ FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING TV Drama - POWER meets THE SOPRANOS \After his rap phenom little brother is murdered due to his involvement with a criminally financed record label, a streetwise single dad from the Bronx and his daughter are forced into witness protection in Cleveland, to unravel what led to his brother’s death. THE HARD WAY One-Hour [Serialized] TV | Sports / Period Drama | Basic Cable - 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 KANDAHAR PROJECT (Working Title) Feature Sci-Fi, Horror, Military Drama - LONE SURVIVOR meets TRAIN TO BUSAN When a highly skilled Recon team becomes trapped in a labyrinth of Afghanistan caves they must confront a mythical tribe of giants in order to make it out alive. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Dark, International Male, Black, Disabled, 40+ repped
- Nicole Jones-Dion | IWC List
< Back Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com Matt Prater, Citizen Skull https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955614/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1 Coverfly The Black List Nicole Jones-Dion is an acclaimed Los Angeles-based writer-director who specializes in telling elevated genre stories. Beginning her career in comics and video games, she transitioned to screenwriting, writing features for SyFy Channel, Lionsgate, and Sony - including an adaptation of the best-selling martial arts game Tekken. An Army Brat, Nicole had a nomadic upbringing, living in places as diverse as Hawaii and Germany before her family finally settled down in Wilmington, NC. In school, she won the North Carolina Writer's Award for a full scholarship to Duke University, where she studied Creative Writing, History, and Theology. After graduation, she did her own brief stint in the Army before relocating to LA. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with the National Park Service and advocates for military veterans in the entertainment industry. Honors & Awards FOX Writers Incubator -Winner - WIKI - 2022 The Grey List - Official Selection - STILL WATERS - 2023 The Stunt List Originals Bureau - Official Selection - WIKI - 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+ WIKI (1 hour drama - YA Horror) A modern-day reimagining of The Monkey’s Paw for the internet generation. The lives of three college friends are turned upside down when they discover a mysterious online wiki site. Any changes made to the wiki magically come true in the real world — with unpredictable and deadly consequences. BACK TRACK (1 hour drama - Crime) When a young horse trainer is found trampled to death, police write it off as a tragic accident... until her father receives an anonymous tip that she was murdered. Now, it’s up to a professor-turned-private investigator to find her killer before he strikes again. Adapted from the novels by Joseph A. McCaffrey. JUVIE (Feature - YA Horror) A delinquent teenage girl discovers a pattern among unexplained deaths at a juvenile detention facility - they all die before they turn 18 and "age out" of the system. With her own 18th birthday looming, she must find out who is behind the mysterious deaths before she becomes the next victim. Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, 40+ Repped
- Alexander Adell | IWC List
< Back Alexander Adell zander@magnesiumfilm.com Alex Creasia, Navigation Media Group https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011809/ Coverfly Alexander Adell, represented by Alex Creasia at Navigation Media Group, writes Sci-Fi and Drama features and TV filled with tangled and passionate characters who need as much therapy as he does, who claw their way through deeply researched, unforgiving worlds. He won at the 2022 Austin Film Festival with his fiction podcast pilot script CELERITAS, which he produced into a global top ten sci-fi podcast that was nominated for a Webby and received seven Signal Awards including Best Writing and Best Scripted Fiction Podcast. A former Pixar Technical Director now based in Austin, TX, he was regularly pulled out of grade school to hitchhike through developing countries, get hypothermia on Mt. Everest, drink cow blood, and witness the occasional public cremation. From a young age he was drawn to science fiction, which felt more familiar than the Americans around him. Now a father of two, his writing attempts to channel the fear and awe of his childhood, and the broken decision-making of adults who are raised in chaos. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award - Winner - CELERITAS - 2022 Signal Award for Best Scripted Fiction Podcast- Gold - CELERITAS - 2023 non-WGA Male, 40+ ANTLION (Drama Feature, Phantom Thread meets Saltburn) When a furniture maker is ruined by his wealthy clients, he lures them in with a mysterious luxury mattress and turns their methods of indoctrination against them. CELERITAS (Dark Sci-fi Scripted Podcast Series, The Revenant meets Interstellar) The first test of light speed flight hurls an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race, and the memory of his daughter. Character-driven, Science, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Dark, Magical Realism Male, 40+ Repped
- Christine Sneed | IWC List
< Back Christine Sneed sneedchristine@gmail.com http://christinesneed.com In May 2018, Christine Sneed packed her bags, said goodbye to friends, frenemies, and family, and tossed out the ancient spices in her cupboards before pointing the car west from Chicago. A few days later she landed in southern California, lower back in outrage, hair in a semi-permanent snarl. Four+ years on, she still has some boxes to unpack, if we’re being honest here. She's written features and pilots based on her short stories and novels (three novels and two story collections published by Bloomsbury and indie press 7.13 Books, and a forthcoming story collection from Northwestern University Press) as well as original scripts. Comedy is her first love, but she's an experienced writer of dramas too. Her most recent books are Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos and The Virginity of Famous Men (stories). Direct Sunlight (stories) will be out in June 2023. She has an MFA in poetry and a bachelor’s in French, which has been useless job-wise but in her mid-20s she had a good-looking French boyfriend. Presently, she lives in Pasadena with her long-time partner and teaches part-time for Northwestern University's and Regis University's MFA programs (fiction-writing). Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl - THE FEMALE GAZE - 2020 Finalist, ScreenCraft Short Story Contest - QUALITY OF LIFE - 2019 Finalist, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize - PORTRAITS OF A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I'VE MADE CRY - 2011 WGA Associate Member Female, 40+ FIVE ROOMS (Feature or limited series, YA dramedy - JUNO meets SCENT OF A WOMAN) Ignoring her better judgment, a lovelorn teenage girl, struggling over her own recent break-up, agrees to help the blind man she works for after school win back his unfaithful girlfriend. PARIS, HE SAID (Feature or limited series, drama - AUTUMN IN NEW YORK meets PARIS, JE T'AIME) Devil's bargain or golden ticket? When a young destitute painter in NYC is offered the chance to move to Paris and focus on her art, she must decide if it's possible to have the career she longs for without sacrificing her chance at true love. THE HEMINGWAY MYSTIQUE (Feature dramedy - THE BOOKSHOP meets YOU'VE GOT MAIL) When their store is threatened by an unscrupulous landlord, a bookstore owner and her son are helped by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, who has escaped the afterlife in order to check up on his literary legacy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet Female, 40+ unrepped
- Rich Orstad | IWC List
< Back Rich Orstad richorstad@laughingo.com http://www.laughingo.com Coverfly The Black List Rich started writing his first story, the sci-fi thriller Lightmares, in his High School Creative Writing class, where his teacher commented he had a difficult choice to make; do the practical thing and become an Engineer or heed Robert Frost’s advice, take the road less travelled and become a writer. Well, after graduating college as a Mechanical Engineer and starting his career, the monkeys never stopped scratching at that story until it finally poured out of him nearly twenty years later, and he's been writing ever since. Since then, he has become a two-time winner and twelve-time finalist with two features in various stages of development. He won the Screencraft True Story Competition with his inspirational bio-pic ENDURANCE, currently in development with Noble Story Co, placed Silver in PAGE with his family feature RESCUE DOG, and is working with Redwoods Studios with his Austin After Dark Finalist horror-comedy NAMASTE ALIVE! Growing up, Rich consumed every Stephen King novel he wrote, was lucky enough to watch Star Wars when it first came out in theaters and had a dad that loved to tell stories about growing up on a farm in depression-era North Dakota. Which is why Rich loves telling stories across all genres because like a well-lived life, every story should pack an emotional punch. Rich is looking for the right representation, is open to OWA’s, and resides in Los Gatos, CA with his wife, Kim. non-WGA Male, 55+, Middle Eastern ENDURANCE (Feature, Family Drama) After losing his legs to an IED in 2012, an Afghanistan War veteran commits his life to completing the Boston Marathon one year after the 2013 bombings and to finish the most important race of his life…his commitment to faith and bringing hope to wounded veterans. Based on a true story. KEEPSAKES CHRISTMAS (Feature, Family Drama) When a social worker discovers that an elderly woman’s Christmas keepsakes have the power to magically transport them both back in time to the memory each holiday memento represents, she takes on the fight to save the senior’s home and her lifetime of precious holiday memories. NAMASTE ALIVE! (Feature, Horror Comedy) When a shy Cali girl says her mantra wrong during Hot Mindfulness Yoga Class and becomes possessed by the Hindu God of Destruction, her best friend must assemble a rag-tag team of friends, family, and mystics to save her life and prevent the end of humankind. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Magical Realism Male, 55+, Middle Eastern unrepped
- Veronica Chavira | IWC List
< Back Veronica Chavira v.chavira@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2737758/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Veronica is a Los Angeles-based queer Latinx feature and TV dramedy writer whose family hails from East Los Angeles. She writes character driven coming-of-age stories about people who challenge the status quo and forge new paths with humor and gusto to create a better world. She attained her MFA in Screenwriting from Stephens College and is a proud active volunteer at the LGBT Center in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Semifinalist - Austin Film Festival - NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - ON HER TURF - 2022 2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival - THE WIN - 2022 non-WGA Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL (One hour Drama - think SELF MADE, MAID) In 1915, Asian American film pioneer Marion Wong decides to become a silent filmmaker after watching a racist Hollywood film of actors in yellow face to tell authentic Asian stories in the face of her family and society’s opposition. ON HER TURF (Half-hour Dramedy - think FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, GLOW) Identical twins Summ and Sarah were raised by their father, an NFL legend, to be athletic and driven. Together they dreamed of playing on the university football team until Sarah finds a newfound calling: to join a sorority. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+ unrepped
- Tony Ferrendelli | IWC List
< Back Tony Ferrendelli ajferrendelli@gmail.com 720.988.7203 https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm14584960 Coverfly The Black List Tony Ferrendelli is a Colorado native who sporadically relocates to Southern California because it doesn’t snow. There are more reasons but this is the short version. His background is comedy and there’s a strong humorous element that leans toward sarcastic or observational present in his writing. His stories are largely character-driven and include people uncomfortable with themselves who must change to move forward. Tony is equally versed in developing and delivering a strong dramatic story. Much to the dismay of his 4th grade English teacher, and Mom, he can’t conjugate a verb to save his life. Luckily for him, screenwriting allows a little leeway in that area as confirmed by his Top 50 placement with Academy Nicholl Fellowships and recent win at the Austin Film Festival. Current project: Exploring the dark comedic depths of medically-assisted suicide with his writing partner, and the significantly funnier, Kim Turner. non-WGA Male, 55+, Over 40 SAIGON DOLL (Feature/Drama, Historical Fiction) In the final chaotic hours of the US exodus from Saigon, a grieving Marine struggles against enemy soldiers — some of whom share his uniform — in order to shepherd an orphaned 8-year-old Vietnamese girl to the American embassy. 2ND RATE FAIRY (Pilot/Comedy; Hybrid live action and animation) An irresponsible fairy in danger of being expelled from the fairy union and reduced to mere human status, forces her godmothering services on a comedian who has trouble saying no. OUTSOURCED (Feature/Supernatural Comedy) A down-on-his-luck 20-something accidentally sells his girlfriend’s soul to Satan and must go to Hell to retrieve it. Character-driven, Dark, Snarky Male, 55+, Over 40 unrepped
- Steven Goldman | IWC List
< Back Steven Goldman sgoldmannn@aol.com Matthew Wallerstein; The Wallerstein Group: mbw@walersteingroup.com Steven Goldman is an internationally syndicated film journalist based in Los Angeles. His UK credits include: Time Out, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC Children's Television, The Evening Standard and British Esquire. In the US, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Premiere, Interview and Artsmeme. He is the writer of two animated TV specials for Film Roman/HandMade Films - based on the Eloise books by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight, featuring the voices of Tim Curry and Lynn Redgrave. He has provided promotional materials for NBCUni, Sony, MGM, Paramount, Amblin, Disney, STX, Warner Bros, Imax, Lionsgate, and Apple TV. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America’s Animation Caucus, The IWC, and The Critics Choice Association. non-WGA Male, 55+ STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT (TV Comedy; Live Action/Animated) Two grapes sitting on a fruit plate wrestle with the petty dramas of daily life, the limitations of their dreams & aspirations, and their own mortality - living in the shadow of an unpredictable and lethal entity, The Hand. HOWDY DOODY TIME (Feature; Caper Comedy) A well-meaning minion's life goes to hell when he gets his best friend a job as his assistant. But as he struggles to get rid of him, neither is aware that the workplace itself is a front for an international forgery ring. TRANSITIONAL BOB (Animated; Limited Series) An eccentric drifter on the run from the law sets off to find his long lost brother, only to discover the man he’s looking for is the same man who’s pursuing him and the hitchhiker he’s picked up along the way may be planning to eat him. IWC BEST OF 2024 Character-driven, Children's, Animation, Limited Series, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped
- Rebekah Mueller | IWC List
< Back Rebekah Mueller Jake Weiner, Good Fear rebekahlmueller.writes@gmail.com http://www.rebekahmueller.com Coverfly The Black List Rebekah Mueller is a drama and genre writer from the Bible Belt of rural Pennsylvania, where she always knew she was close to home by the "Repent or Burn in Hell" barn murals. Growing up with mysterious seizures, she learned early on the importance of self-advocacy in finding your way through the rabbit hole. She began her career as a video editor before pivoting into the tech industry. Her disillusionment as an executive for Fortune 50 companies led her to write her TV pilot, MOONRISE, featured on the Blood List and winner of WeScreenplay's Diverse Voices Lab. Rebekah loves to create characters who escape societal and familial pressures to discover one's true self by embracing chaos. Her scripts have trended #3 on the Black List, and have been selected by the Austin Film Festival and ScreenCraft. She participated in Stowe Narrative Lab, Stowe Producing Lab, and UCLA’s TV & Film Producing program. Rebekah is currently in the 2025 cohort for the Paramount Writers Mentoring program. In addition to writing, Rebekah helped produce the drama short SUNKISS. She is in development on her first horror-thriller short, as both writer and director. Rebekah is repped by Good Fear. Honors & Awards Paramount Writers Mentoring Program , Paramount - BLOOD RELATIVE - 2025 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - EVIL "The Sin of Forgiveness" Spec - 2024 Official Selection, Blood List - MOONRISE - 2021 non-WGA Female, Disabled BLOOD RELATIVE (Thriller - DEXTER meets KILLING EVE ) As problems pile up in her life, a tightly-wound woman reconnects with her protective older sister. KILL THE RABBIT (Darkly Comedic Psych Thriller - UNITED STATES OF TARA meets BABY REINDEER ) A recently widowed game designer struggles to balance work, motherhood, and her own individuality when visions of her dead husband encourage her to stalk her new coworker. MOONRISE (Sci-fi Thriller - TRUE BLOOD meets DISTRICT 9 ) When an ambitious scientist uncovers the barbaric truth behind a cure-all DNA therapy, she must choose between healing her father’s illness and destroying her employer’s cruel vampire-industrial complex from within. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Dark Female, Disabled Repped