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< Back Amy Haeussler amy.haeussler@gmail.com https://www.amyhaeussler.com/ Coverfly Amy is an actor, writer and model...citizen! She's based in LA, but grew up in a large dysfunctional family from the Chicago suburbs (it’s pop, not soda.) As a performer, Amy has 10+ years experience writing and performing sketch and improv at theaters like The Second City-Chicago, iO-Chicago, The Annoyance and Groundlings (among all the other bars & random apartments.) Currently she can be found performing around LA and is on deck to start Sunday Company at The Groundlings Theater later this year. As a writer, Amy has written a number of pilots and screenplays that have placed in notable competitions like The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, PAGE International, Final Draft Big Break, Austin Film Fest, Finish Line Competition and more. As a person, Amy has gotten herself into a lot of sh*t, gotten herself out of a lot of sh*t and can currently be found adapting to sh*t (aren’t we all?) Honors & Awards Nicholl Fellowship - Quarterfinalist - CRAZY GIRL - 2023/2024 Page International Competition - Semifinalist - MID-30's - 2023 Semifinalist, Finish Line Competition - CRAZY GIRL - 2023 non-WGA Female CRAZY GIRL (Drama/Dark Comedy, TRAINWRECK meets GIRL, INTERRUPTED) A comedienne with bulimia and substance abuse issues struggles her way through rehab while her mother battles cancer. MID-30's (Comedy/Dark Comedy, FLEABAG meets BETTER THINGS) An alcoholic entering her “mid-30’s” awkwardly navigates love, life, sex and aging for the first time sober...while trying to pursue comedy. Character-driven, Female-centric, Dark, Naturalistic, Sketch Female unrepped

< Back Julie Dare julieannedare@gmail.com | 310.210.5584 Rep: Jacob Snyder, Manager - Range Media Partners Coverfly The Black List 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 THE SUBSTANCE, MARIA, YOUR MONSTER, RESERVATION DOGS, BLACK LIGHTNING, RIVERDALE, and GREY'S ANATOMY), 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. In addition to developing her Film & TV projects, Julie's currently completing 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 BIG WORDS (1/2-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. A DEAD GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE (1/2-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. TESTERS (Hour-Long TV Drama) A group of down-on-their-luck individuals are selected as game testers for a cutting-edge new VR game that leaves them questioning if what they're experiencing is truly a game or possibly a nefarious plot in which they're the unwitting guinea pigs in an experiment to test life on another planet. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, Dark Female repped

< 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

< Back Tim Brennan tbrennan75@gmail.com Tim's drama ROUGH SURFACE won the 2025 Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition. His western A BULLET FOR MERRI was a finalist in the 2023 Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition, and was optioned in July of 2025. He's a fan of projects that blend genre thrills and social commentary. Tim is also a film critic for www.aboutboulder.com. Honors & Awards Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Drama Competition - ROUGH SURFACE - 2025 Finalist, Creative Screenwriting Feature Screenplay Competition - A BULLET FOR MERRI - 2023 Top 10, Table Read My Screenplay - ROUGH SURFACE - 2023" non-WGA Male, 40+ ROUGH SURFACE Drama SPOTLIGHT meets WIND RIVER When the 1980 murder of a Lakota Sioux girl is ignored by authorities, a tenacious reporter risks her career to investigate, rocking the foundations of a small town. Based on actual events. KHALID AND THE GREAT BEYOND Comedy DEFENDING YOUR LIFE meets MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN When an atheistic physicist dies, he and the Goddess of Safe Returns must determine why the dead are going to the wrong afterlives and prevent the destruction of reality. HUNTER'S MOON Action/horror AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON meets PREDATOR When a pack of werewolves is pursued by skilled hunters, they must fight to survive in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park. Character-driven, Crime, Western, Horror, Satire, Bittersweet, Snarky Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Trudi Witzand Kennedy tjkennedy@live.com.au IMDB Breaking free from a doomsday sect as a teen, Trudi advanced in media and architectural careers in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States. Surviving cancer, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for story telling. Her experience of resilience and transformation fuels her feature and series writing. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 55+ POLAR Action Thriller - The Revenant/Thelma and Louise An adventure trip becomes a new fight for survival for a pair of cancer thrivers stranded in an Arctic storm, stalked by a polar bear, mutated by toxins. THE GHOSTS IN THE VILLA Sixth Sense/The Shining When the psychic daughter of a Villa caretaker befriends the ghost of a silent film starlet, she unwittingly enrages a possessive maternal spirit and must develop her gifts to save the ones she loves. DESTINATION WEDDING Horror - GetOut/Midsommar A troubled couple travel to a remote village for a destination wedding, but discover the villagers are actually a cannibal cult enticing newlyweds for ritual sacrifice. Character-driven, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Dark Female, 55+ unrepped

< Back Tim Kontje trkontje@gmail.com The Black List Tim is an LA-based screenwriter who has won numerous contests including Stage 32, Emerging Screenwriters, and Creative Screenwriting. He is also a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist and recently became a board member of the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Originally from California, Tim also grew up in Germany and has an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. Despite having a twin, he sadly isn’t telepathic. Honors & Awards Winner, Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest - KITBASH - 2024 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - ZERO LINE - 2024 Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Action/Adventure Competition - ZERO LINE - 2023 non-WGA Male KITBASH Action Feature LUCY meets THE RAID After a slacker maid accidentally gains advanced combat abilities from an experimental serum, she has two hours before it kills her to find a cure and rescue her sister from a psycho billionaire and his private army. ZERO LINE Action/Adventure Feature TOMB RAIDER meets BLOOD DIAMOND A hard-charging journalist teams up with a cynical thief and a timid archaeologist to find her missing mentor in a race through the blood antiquities underworld. Inspired by true events. BLACK BUTTERFLY Action/Adventure Pilot ROGUE HEROES meets PONIES Berlin, 1941: After her identical twin is killed, a shy young woman must take her sister's place as a spy in the heart of the Nazi Reich. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History Male unrepped

< Back Matt Rollins mattrollins13@yahoo.com Born and raised in the Washington DC area, Matthew decided to go after his dream of becoming a professional storyteller. He packed up what he could carry in his little car and set forth towards the Mecca of entertainment, Southern California. Matthew takes with him a lifetime of experience in Medical, as a professional and a patient, Governmental processes and a rich imagination of a world that could be. non-WGA Male, Disabled, 55+ THE ADVENTURES OF GG Coming of Age, Thriller When GG started at her new school, her new found friend was kicked out for nefarious reasons. GG, along with other classmates, go after the corrupt principal to take her entire operation down." Medical, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age Male, Disabled, 55+ unrepped

< Back Caitlin Reed cnreed27@gmail.com Caitlin Reed is an LA-based writer, producer, filmmaker, and self-proclaimed sweater aficionado of mixed-Asian heritage who enjoys creating stories about funny people going through existential crises. Last year, she co-wrote, directed, and produced her short film Blue Skies — a character study of someone living with chronic social anxiety — which she is sending through the festival circuit. She also wrote and starred in a proof of concept based on one of her original comedy pilots, co-written with her producing partner, Tia Sippel. She is currently a board member of the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society. When Caitlin’s not navigating the industry, she can be found touring nuclear facilities, identifying local flora & fauna, or daydreaming about going to the beach. Honors & Awards Emerging Screenwriters Sci-fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition - Quarter-Finalist - SPACELESS - 2022 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition - Quarter-Finalist - SPACELESS - 2021 Shoot Your Short - Semi-Finalist - SQUIDE - 2021 non-WGA Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic UNADULTERATED 1/2 Hour TV - New Girl, Insecure, Odd Couple In a caffeine-fueled quest for a fresh start, a perpetually anxious librarian invades the world of her sardonic childhood best friend as they dive into the fray of life and uncover the simple joys hidden within the chaos of modern existence. SPACELESS 1Hour TV - Firefly, Red Dwarf A former space ranger, content with living an aimless existence transporting useless merchandise across the galaxy, is forced to wear her big girl pants and face past offenses as an old friend enters her life. AS YOU WISH IT 1 Hour TV - The Magicians, Stranger Than Fiction, The 10th Kingdom Years after vowing never to write again since her father's death, a former child prodigy is kidnapped by the very characters in the book she wrote at sixteen and must find a way to save their world before it destroys hers. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Snarky Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped

< Back Kelly and Megan Anelons kanelons@me.com Kelly writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing teams. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh. Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Lisa Lutes lmluey@gmail.com Lisa Lutes is a screenwriter from Ottawa, Canada. Lisa graduated from university with a degree in marine and freshwater biology and worked as a fisheries biologist on ships and islands in the Alaskan fishing industry. Eventually, she went back to university in Australia to train as a primary school teacher to settle down and raise her two daughters. After writing a novel and memoir about Alaska, as well as several picture books, she decided to give screenwriting a turn and fell in love. Lisa uses her strange mix of world travel, teaching and parenting experience to write comedy and family, with a love of all things time travel, looping and bending. Lisa is currently developing a series of middle grade graphic novels with her illustrator husband, Jay Lutes. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, PAGE awards - PRESENT 2024 Second Round, Sundance development track - OSTARBEITER 2025 non-WGA Female, Disabled, 40+ PRESENT Family feature Trapped in the photos of her social media account, a girl must find a way out to return to her real life. OSTARBEITER Drama feature Three mothers in different times and places deal with the generational consequences of a Nazi work camp that imprisoned Eastern European women in WW2. SHOWROOM Comedy feature Trapped in an IKEA showroom of their past, a couple must navigate years of built up resentment to survive the adjustment of an empty nest. Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Children's, Magical Realism Female, Disabled, 40+ unrepped

< Back Megan J. Wilson megan@dirttotem.com Megan lives in Los Angeles but considers the Pacific Northwest home. She’s worked at a publishing house in Seattle, a law firm in North Carolina, the NFL in New York, and a cannery in Alaska – and yes, there were bears. She was a writers assistant for CBS for 3 years, and she wrote and produced a 6-episode webseries (The Sanctum, 2009). She writes action/drama, action/sci-fi, and action/comedy, and her stories often feature families dealing with mental illness. She’s been finalist for the PAGE Award, quarterfinalist for the Nicholl, Script Pipeline and Austin Film Festival and she's been featured on the Red List and the Next List. Megan currently has two features and a short in development. Megan is active in the LA-writing community, as co-founder of the League of Women Writers and co-founder of the Writer X Director Mixer. She loves quilting, snowboarding, writing graphic novels, and has a complicated relationship with her crockpot. Honors & Awards Finalist, PAGE Awards - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2022 Official Selection, The Next List - 2024 - https://www.tracking-board.com/the-next-list-2024/ non-WGA Female, 40+ AVALANCHE EXPRESS (Action Feature) When a passenger train traveling through the Alps is caught in an avalanche, the Syrian-Swiss conductor must surmount her own fear of being buried alive to lead the remaining passengers in a struggle for survival. DROP ZONE (Hourlong Procedural) When the prodigal daughter of a firefighting family returns home to Montana as a forest service firefighter (a “smokejumper”), she clashes with the father who disowned her and confronts the sister who married her high school sweetheart. DUSTRISE (Horror Feature) When two sisters take a back road to Burning Man to avoid the fees, their dream trip becomes a nightmare, as a 100-year flood wakes terrifying monsters from a dry riverbed to feed on festivalgoers. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Female, 40+ unrepped

< 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