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Featured Writers

IWC Featured Writers have recently distinguished themselves with a sale, option, production, a placement in a lab, or related action.

Featured Writers are updated quarterly.

Monique Madrid

Monique Madrid

TV, Comedy, Dramedy

Monique recently launched the podcast TIME TRAVELING TONYA through GoKidGo. Each episode features a mini history lesson that blends humor with factual information.

Roxanne Raye (Beck)

Roxanne Raye (Beck)

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Roxanne signed a shopping agreement with Lamar Richardson and Zaire Julion's production company Ivy Lion Productions for her pilot THE QUEEN OF MAGIC.

Marty Lang

Marty Lang

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Marty’s dramedy pilot THE DAILY will be featured at the Catalyst Content Festival in Duluth, Minnesota this October.

Steve Holbert

Steve Holbert

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Steve’s horror feature YOU, ME, & EVIL was selected as a finalist by The DelShores Foundation.

Alexa Oona Schulz

Alexa Oona Schulz

TV, Drama, Comedy

Alexa’s documentary series UNPACKING THE UNIVERSE received an Award of Excellence from the AAMA (Association of Art Museum Curators).

Carolyn  Kras

Carolyn Kras

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Carolyn signed with 42 as a result of the IWC’s Meet & Greet event. She also recently wrote the episode “The Zoom Classroom” for the new media series CORNUCOPIA.

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Alec Moore

Alec Moore

TV, Features, Comedy

Comedy writer seeks someone to laugh, but will consider settling for silent chuckles if you're the stoic type...

Anne Toole

Anne Toole

TV, Drama, Dramedy, Genre

Versatile writer looking to grow with a team of great writers...

Beverly Neufeld

Beverly Neufeld

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

MFA from UCLA, screenwriting professor at USC - making Beverly a Brojan - who writes about gays, Mormons, Orthodox Jews, animated mafia cats, and all sorts of outsiders...

Carolyn  Kras

Carolyn Kras

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Carolyn is a playwright turned drama writer with studio development experience who loves creating character-driven stories with crisp dialogue and surprising plot twists...

Daniel Gámez

Daniel Gámez

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

Half-hour Dramedy, One-Hour Dramedy, Feature Film Traumedy, Playwright...

David A. Lee

David A. Lee

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

David A. Lee and writing partner/husband Daniel Vaillancourt are a TV and Film writing team based in Southern California...

Ellen Ancui

Ellen Ancui

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Edgy, female-focused TV, Feature, and Theater writer of traumedies...

Garret Williams

Garret Williams

Features, Drama, Dramedy, Genre

Garret is a screenwriter, director and producer whose work focuses on drama, thriller, dark comedy and in any combination of those genres...

Harrison Pierce

Harrison Pierce

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

An award-winning graduate of UCLA's MFA program, Harrison aspires to infuse the classic genres of film and television with the comedy, drama, and horror of modern life...

Jackie Perez

Jackie Perez

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Former nuclear engineer turned screenwriter who writes subversive characters who don't take no for an answer...

Jude Roth

Jude Roth

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Whether personal dramas set against geopolitical backdrops or intimate journeys, Jude's characters are often driven to right wrongs, big and small.

Katherine Ruppe

Katherine Ruppe

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Katherine writes propulsive dramas about intrepid underdogs pursuing the impossible – whether it’s delivering justice or rocketing to space...

Kimberley Ann Sparks

Kimberley Ann Sparks

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Kim is an award-winning screenwriter who started in preschool television, went on to write mature video games, and is now writing dramatic features and one-hour series...

Lisa Gold

Lisa Gold

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Writer of unique, edgy dramas/dramedies/sci-fi/fantasy with depth...

Marty Lang

Marty Lang

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Drama/dramedy writer, captivated with dysfunctional families, politics and the working class...

Michael J. Dougherty

Michael J. Dougherty

Features, Drama, Comedy, Genre

Michael writes dark features, comedies, dramas, and genre...

Natalija Vekic

Natalija Vekic

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Natalija writes and directs suspenseful dramas from the perspective of immigrants, outsiders, and women who boldly shape history but are often forgotten...

Philip Pierce

Philip Pierce

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

As a clinical psychologist with a medical background, Philip has special expertise in the field of the human mind. He especially loves deepening other people’s scripts...

Roxanne Raye (Beck)

Roxanne Raye (Beck)

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Roxanne's writing tends to focus on rebellious women who refuse to be silenced and underdogs who never give up...

Sage Wells

Sage Wells

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Sage and her characters come from "the wrong side of the tracks." She's passionate about secrets, fierce women, poignant revelations, and unlikely duos seeking a better life..

Steve Holbert

Steve Holbert

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Steve writes horror TV and features where the girls and gays stop running, pick up the ax, and start taking names...

Terri B Spaugh

Terri B Spaugh

TV, Features, Genre

A natural born plotter who loves bending genre expectations...

Virtic Emil Brown

Virtic Emil Brown

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Virtic puts a lot of her emotions and experiences in her writing. She focuses on inclusion and diversity...

Yeni Alvarez

Yeni Alvarez

TV, Features, Comedy, Genre

Bilingual Geeky Latina writes from her Cuban-immigrant background to make the world a spicier place... in both languages...

Alexa Oona Schulz

Alexa Oona Schulz

TV, Drama, Comedy

Alexa’s special skill is her background in writing and directing documentaries, and her work history with a law-enforcement agency...

Arun K. Vir

Arun K. Vir

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Arun goes beyond being a scribe; she steps into the role of social explorer and tribal architect...

Billie Jo Mason

Billie Jo Mason

TV, Features, Genre

Recently worked with showrunner Mark Protosevich on SUGAR (starring Colin Farrell) for Apple+...

Christina Hulen

Christina Hulen

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Christina writes features and television about women and LGBTQ+ people whose stories have been white-washed or lost to history...

Daniel Vaillancourt

Daniel Vaillancourt

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

My spouse David A. Lee and I are a film & TV writing team based in Southern California...

David Ngo

David Ngo

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

David wore surf clothes to blend in with his peers in Orange County, CA, but he never surfed. Now, he writes about such experiences with humor, heart, and catharsis...

Eugene Ramos

Eugene Ramos

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

Influenced by William Shakespeare and Rod Serling, Eugene writes genre stories about underdogs fighting the good fight (oftentimes while falling in love) against overwhelming odds...

Glenn Gaylord

Glenn Gaylord

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Glenn is a filmmaker, film critic, author and former prison teacher who has something to say...

Helena Zhen

Helena Zhen

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

High concept writer with an emphasis on elevated genre and an affinity for a world-building. Grounded sci-fi and thriller laced with a potent dose of characterization...

Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Jennifer writes smart, interesting characters navigating absurd worlds. Her scripts center women exploring modern relationships, politics, and power, often with a satiric slant...

Karol Ruth Silverstein

Karol Ruth Silverstein

Features, Drama, Comedy, Dramedy

Karol Ruth Silverstein champions misfits, underdogs and that weird kid nobody wanted to sit next to. Spoiler alert: she qualifies as all of the above. Dramedy is her sweet spot...

Keri Kaiulani Picolla

Keri Kaiulani Picolla

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Keri is a Los Angeles-based television and feature drama writer known for character-driven BIPOC stories.

Lewis Sarmed Alsamari

Lewis Sarmed Alsamari

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

A focus on tormented characters that toil & twine inside epic worlds that forever collide. He draws on experiences of escaping Saddam's army while rescuing his family...

Lisa Kors

Lisa Kors

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

Award-winning writer/producer who tells stories of women making bad choices for good reasons...

Matt Harry

Matt Harry

TV, Features, Comedy, Genre

Writer of fun, exciting stories with a dash of the fantastical...

Michael January

Michael January

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Versatile vision and character in thrillers, action, and drama...

Nicholas Pangilinan

Nicholas Pangilinan

TV, Features, Comedy, Genre

The son of an immigrant, Nick writes the stories that he wished he had while growing up: diverse, well-rounded, and a bit wild...

Rantz A. Hoseley

Rantz A. Hoseley

Features, Drama

Writer/Director creating stories about the terrible beauty of the human condition...

Ryan B Massey

Ryan B Massey

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Specializing in stories immersed in magical realism, Ryan strives to tell stories that help people find magic in their own day-to-day moments...

Sarah Fischer

Sarah Fischer

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

Sarah writes about the weight of expectation, and tells small character stories set against the backdrop of grand worlds...

Steven Goldman

Steven Goldman

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Writer. Reader. Popcorn Addict. Theoretical Amphibian...

Tracy Held

Tracy Held

TV, Features, Comedy

A Chinese/Eastern European writer, Tracy loves to tell stories about do-gooders who strive to save the world, but struggle to know how to navigate the human interaction part...

Wallaine Sarao

Wallaine Sarao

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Wallaine writes stories about complicated families and outsiders, imbedding these stories in extraordinary worlds...

Yousif Nash

Yousif Nash

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

A son of Iraqi immigrants and an Air Force veteran, Yousif writes about his military experience through the Sci-fi and Fantasy genres or nerds suffering through the normalities of life...

Alexa Ray Corriea

Alexa Ray Corriea

Drama, Dramedy, Genre

Alexa Ray's brain spouts pure unfiltered chaos energy; if you're a fan of something's-just-off characters with good intentions but questionable means, she's your person...

Benjamin-Shalom Rodriguez

Benjamin-Shalom Rodriguez

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Ben loves petty underdogs -- or characters that think they're underdogs so get petty...

Brandy N. Carie

Brandy N. Carie

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

Brandy N. Carie is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who writes horror and drama about what happens when nice girls get mad...

Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Christine aspires to write stories that entertain but also, like the Ferris wheel, offer the giddy uplift and the vibrancy of deeply seeing and being...

Danielle Weinberg

Danielle Weinberg

TV, Features, Comedy, Genre

Danielle writes smart comedies, fun mysteries, and concise personal blurbs...

Edward Coffey

Edward Coffey

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Veteran and AAPI writer of all genres...

Gabriel Brugni da Cruz

Gabriel Brugni da Cruz

TV, Features, Drama

Dramas about finding love and wonder in the darkest places...

H. S. Fishbrook

H. S. Fishbrook

Features, Drama

H.S. builds elegant, slightly-off kilter worlds where characters struggle to find their right place, and dynamic women at the heart of the narrative always pass the Bechdel Test...

Holly Leveque

Holly Leveque

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Holly is an animal lover who was born & raised in LA mostly by a television. She is not afraid to get a little dark & weird to tell a good story that needs to be told...

Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer

Features, Drama, Dramedy, Genre

Jeremy finds humor and humanity in every setting - from WW1 to a public school to a time travel lab - and uses it to tell compelling stories from almost any genre you can name...

Kate Mickere

Kate Mickere

TV, Features, Comedy, Dramedy

Kate writes stories based on the lives of remarkable women who've been forgotten by history...

Kim Turner

Kim Turner

Features, TV, Comedy

Kim works overtime to make you laugh and to distract you so you don't see the moment that breaks your heart coming...

Linda Dillon Moya (Sweigart)

Linda Dillon Moya (Sweigart)

TV, Features, Drama, Genre

An avid traveler, Linda is a global storyteller drawn to writing about complex characters that live on the fringes of society...

Lisanne Sartor

Lisanne Sartor

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

An Italian American Jersey girl whose dysfunctional family history of secrets and lies has deeply informed her writing, culinary skills and vengeful, loyal nature...

Megan Morrison

Megan Morrison

TV, Features, Dramedy, Genre

Characters in bonkers situations doing bonkers things but grounded in realistic emotions...

Monique Madrid

Monique Madrid

TV, Comedy, Dramedy

Monique writes female-driven comedies, usually from lived experience, often with a satirical edge, always with a bit of edge...

Peggy Bruen

Peggy Bruen

TV, Features, Drama

Out of the box drama features and female and indigenous content...

Robin Fusco

Robin Fusco

TV, Drama

Robin takes that woman you love to hate, puts her in a fucked-up situation, and makes you root for her. Expect questionable morals, identity crises, and shades of grey...

Sabine El Gemayel

Sabine El Gemayel

Features, Drama

Sabine writes character driven stories advocating for peace and dialog in a world of conflict...

Scott Sanford Tobis

Scott Sanford Tobis

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Scott adheres to the "content dictates form" philosophy, so his work covers many genres - romantic comedy, thrillers, biopics. Or perhaps he merely lack focus...

Teresa Sullivan

Teresa Sullivan

TV, Features, Drama, Comedy

Salty heroes, bad-ass leading women, war stories, baseball tales and a laugh out-loud granny saving an airplane – No one puts Teresa’s characters in a corner...

Victoria Renee

Victoria Renee

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Victoria Renee is a real woman with reel dreams...

William T. Sutphin

William T. Sutphin

TV, Features, Drama, Dramedy

Creative, by way of The Creator...

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