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< Back J Florence Jones jflorencejones@gmail.com Jaye is a queer and non-binary writer living in Los Angeles. They grew up in Minnesota and attended NYU. In 2014 they hiked all 2185 miles of the Appalachian Trail because they were too stubborn to quit. Jaye writes romantic comedies and coming-of-age stories about characters exploring the slipperiness of queer identity. Their work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, placing as a Semi-Finalist in both 2021 and 2023. Honors & Awards The Best Of The IWC - Kiss Me Like That - 2026 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - KISS ME LIKE THAT - 2021 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - KISS ME LIKE THAT - 2023 non-WGA/Caucus Only Non-binary, LGBTQ+ KISS ME LIKE THAT Feature, Romantic Comedy After finally working up the courage to come out of the closet, a gay teenager is determined to own his sexuality and slay his senior year, but he’s thrown off his axis when he falls in love with his best friend, who is – gasp! – a woman. SHAKE ME FREE FROM MY NAME Feature, Comedy-Drama Desperate to escape her crumbling life in Brooklyn, a struggling artist sets out to hike all 2185 miles of the Appalachian Trail, where the wilderness and her fellow hikers force her to confront her gender, identity, and fear of being truly seen. BOY’S LIFE Feature, Coming-of-Age A boy's plans to beat the merit badge record at summer camp are thrown for a loop when the unimaginable happens: he makes a friend. Queer, Romantic, Coming-of-Age Non-binary, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< 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 Dani Hanks danihanks@danihanks.com https://www.danihanks.com Dani Hanks (they/she) is a disabled writer/director based in NYC. Their workplace comedy pilot, THE G.Y.M., won the 2024 Austin Film Festival and will be featured on Table Read at the official podcast stage of SXSW 2026. Dani grew up elbow-deep in human organs at their mom’s pathology lab in Porterville, California. A direct result of inhaling too much formaldehyde in their formative years, they dove headfirst into the entertainment industry and received a BFA in Drama at NYU Tisch. Drawing from their experience as the only purple-haired snowflake in a deeply conservative family, they promote empathy for underrepresented identities through offbeat stories centered around diverse found families. Dani approaches the taboo with both levity and nuance and loves finding humor in the mundane. Dani has worked on projects in development at FilmRise and RKO, and is a fellow of Stowe, Disability Belongs, and the WGAE SSTP. They are a full-time meme connoisseur, part-time AD, former member of Mensa, and have 10 years of experience cutting animal tissue for medical research (much to the dismay of their pet rats). Honors & Awards Winner, Roadmap Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship - KNOTTY - 2025 ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025 - 2025 Winner, Austin Film Festival - THE G.Y.M. - 2024 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled THE G.Y.M. 1/2 Hour Workplace Comedy – ABBOTT ELEMENTARY in a Planet Fitness When a neurotic woman spends her life savings to rescue her hometown’s infamous gym, she and her ragtag employees must turn their shithole into shinola to compete with the fancy fitness chain across the street. KNOTTY 1-Hour Dramedy Determined to discover what caused her taboo fantasies, a sexually-repressed PhD student infiltrates the BDSM scene under the guise of “research,” but unexpectedly falls in love with this wholesome world of lustful LARPers, Pokémon perverts… and one of her professors. MYSTERY SISTERS 1-Hour Female-led Crime Procedural A reclusive techie with a mysterious past and a crime-junkie wannabe actress hit the road in a ramshackle Winnebago, racing to solve abandoned cases before the trail goes cold. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Medical, Crime, Procedural, Dark, Snarky Female, Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled unrepped

< Back Edward G. Excaliber edwardexcaliber@yahoo.com LinkedIn The Black List Edward G. Excaliber is a Los Angeles-based, Miami-born Puerto Rican writer, a sci-fi/fantasy videogaming nerd who blends his darkly comedic, self-deprecating voice with emotionally sincere characters, focusing on grounded, personal stories in elevated genre worlds. The youngest of three, his passion for writing began at an early age, writing comic books, poems and lyrics, shifting to narrative storytelling in college, where he wrote and directed numerous stage plays. He transitioned to writing for film and television while attending the AFI Conservatory, earning an MFA in Screenwriting. Edward is an alum of the NBC Writers on the Verge and National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) writing programs. In 2024, Edward won the Hollywood Fringe Festival Theatre Theater Playwright Award. In 2026, he was selected for a reading at the Coconut Grove Theatre Festival in Miami. He’s written episodes of Parcast’s lost treasure podcast series, Gone. He’s worked as a story analyst for Sony Pictures, Amblin Partners, Focus Features, Austin Film Festival and Coverfly. Edward has twice been selected for the Read Latinx Initiative. Currently, Edward’s learning to play guitar, practicing amateur archery and developing new projects. Honors & Awards Winner - Theatre Theater Playwright Award, Hollywood Fringe Festival - 2024 Fellow - NBC Writers on the Verge - 2018-19 Fellow - NHMC Writing Program - 2017 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, Latinx, 40+ GEMINI One-hour Sci-Fi Action/Adventure pilot - Dr. Who/Hitchhiker's Guide ... When her MIT-genius twin-turned-mailman is found dead, a gamer girl discovers his secreted mail truck, which morphs into a spaceship, leading her on an interstellar mission to rescue him, led by the galaxy’s foremost espionage program: The United States Postal Service. HOUND Historical Comedy feature - The Death of Stalin/Jojo Rabbit (tone) 14th Century Paris. Seeking revenge for the murder of his guardian, a hound repeatedly attacks the alleged culprit, prompting the king to decree an unlikely duel between man and dog. Based on a true story… if you believe the legend. SPELLBOUND Half-hour Supernatural Comedy pilot - Baskets A down-on-his-luck street magician who’s actually a real wizard spends his days trying to stay powerful enough to pay the rent. But when his estranged daughter shows up, more powerful than any other wizard he’s ever met, he sees a path to reclaiming his identity. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky, Magical Realism Male, Latinx, 40+ unrepped

< Back Hank Isaac pointsource@gmail.com http://www.hankthewriter.com Hank Isaac is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has enjoyed a varied career. The only child of a motion picture executive and a professional dancer, Hank experienced a fanciful childhood. He married his college sweetheart and they are somewhat of an anomaly – they're still married to each other after more than half a century. Hank has worked as a middle school teacher, a college professor, a sailing school manager & instructor, a research director, a product designer, an exhibit designer, a radio station disc jockey, and a toy store owner. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer who served on active duty during the Vietnam conflict. Hank and his wife lived on a boat for eleven years and raised a genius daughter in a toy store. Hank began writing feature films in 1994 and was fortunate to have been mentored by the late legendary Stewart Stern (Rebel without a Cause; Rachel, Rachel; Man without a Country; Sybil). He started directing in 2006 and since then, he and his work have been “Official Selections” in over one hundred international film festivals and awards competitions and have won more than fifty awards. Additionally, his screenplays and teleplays have been finalists and semi-finalists in more than three dozen writing competitions. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, 40+, 55+ KYLA'S WAR TV Series - Historical Drama In WWII Poland, a twelve-year-old girl is the pampered pigtailed daughter of a respected surgeon by day and, by night, a Resistance fighter who is quickly becoming the scourge of the Third Reich. OLIVIANA Family TV Series & Middle-Grade Novel Against an ever-increasing set of seemingly insurmountable situations, a little girl struggles to build and run a tiny cargo-carrying railroad to try to save her town from economic ruin and in the process learns a trainload of life lessons. ATOM & EVE Feature Film - Family - Drama Without enough air to journey to each other's habitat, two children, the isolated last survivors of a failed planetary colony, must devise a way for one to rescue the other in the face of a life-threatening disaster. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA, Animation, Limited Series, Magical Realism Male, 40+, 55+ unrepped

< Back Mage Lanz lanz.mage@gmail.com Mage Lanz is screenwriter and story editor currently working in feature development as a story editor at Inzide Media in Los Angeles. She’s written twenty screenplays and has one produced feature, with producing credits on upcoming projects. She was on last year’s Grey List and has placed highly in programs including the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab, Nicholl, the Disney/ABC Writing Program, and the Austin Film Festival, where she also worked as a paid reader. She’s also the author of an unpublished nonfiction book, “The Monist Mindset,” which explores the concept of oneness across philosophy, science, and religion, and an upmarket fiction novel “Inferno”, based on a screenplay of the same name. Honors & Awards The Grey List 2025 - Horror/Fantasy Feature - Oona in Halloweenland Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2024 - Drama Features Coventry; Oona in Halloweenland; One-Hour Pilot - Anne Bonny Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2023 - Comedy Features - Worst Date Ever; Valium Times Day; Half-Hour Teleplay Pilot - Bye Bye Body Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+ INFERNO Feature - Psychological Drama/Romance - Phantom Thread, Marriage Story, Blue Valentine, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, In the Mood for Love A newly divorced woman takes a job in a high-end restaurant where she ignites an affair with a brilliant but emotionally repressed chef whose need for control masks a lifetime of buried trauma. BYE BYE BODY Half-hour Pilot - Dramedy - Dead Like Me, My Name is Earl, The Good Place, Broad City, Barry A young, naive ex-con decides to open her own sea burial business as a way to make quick cash, but soon finds out it’s much more complicated than she thought. WORST DATE EVER Feature - Romcom - Date Night, Before Sunrise, Walk of Shame, Before We Go After being robbed of their phones and money on their first date, two middle-aged strangers must work together to get home on one crazy, awful night in Los Angeles. Character-driven, Female-centric, Science, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Dark Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+ unrepped