Greg
Benevent Greg Benevent writes action, comedy, horror, and pretty much everything else. A Screenwriting and Playwriting graduate of Drexel University, he’s had a script optioned by Mekhi Phifer’s Facilitator Films. The 2003 Academy of Televisions Arts and Sciences TV Drama Writing Intern, he once upon a time was co-creator of the beloved web series "Bumps in the Night." He resides in North Hollywood and spends too much time saying goofy things on twitter.
Tony
LaScala To avoid the harsh reality of his father passing and the threat of losing his home, a young handicapped man from a dysfunctional family, escapes from a psychiatric hospital and embarks on a fantasy adventure to save his paper diorama world from the clutches of a storytelling monster.
Tony LaScala is a playwriting/screenwriting graduate of the University of LaVerne and his plays have subsequently been produced all over the world. He is currently the author of "The Odd Job Chronicles" @thescriptlab.com.
By day Tony works many odd jobs to make rent and spend random free moments working on his passion: Writing. If you Hollywood types are looking for a screenplay, Tony will tell you all about his right after he auditions for a toothpaste commercial, takes the stage for a few jokes, feeds your dogs, tutors your kids, films your niece's graduation, serves you asparagus and brie puff pastry hors d'oeuvres, and finishes re-tiling your downstairs bathroom.
Michael
Oakes Michael Oakes is a professional writer, actor, and director. He graduated from Stuyvesant H.S. in N.Y., earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biology at the University of Wisconsin, and was a Wildlife Biologist with the Park Service. He studied acting with A.C.T., Shakespeare & Co., and Anne Bogart. He is an Equity actor, garnering rave reviews in roles including Stanley Kowalski, Petruchio, and Oberon. In 1994 Mr. Oakes founded Live Oakes Educational Theater, combining rigorous research with acting expertise to bring history to life. In 2000, Soprano Renee Oakes became his wife and partner. Their mission is to tell stories from the past that can make a difference for the future. They tour their 13 award-winning shows nationally.
To adapt his plays to the screen Mr. Oakes studied screenwriting for five years with Syd Field, Robert McKee, Chis Vogler, ScreenwritingU, etc. DA VINCI’S DREAMS placed in five major contests and has been requested by Will Smith’s company. Mr. Oakes has a mini-series pilot script, “The Call of the Wild: The Life of Jack London.” He also has an option on his brother’s prize-winning book, “The Radical and The Republican,” about the unlikely friendship between Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. His favorite role is Daddy to his 4 year old daughter. For more information visit www.imdb.me/michaeloakes and www.liveoakes.com.
Jim
Hoffman Jim has been writing scripts for about ten years, and is a long time member (and sometimes Board member) of Scriptwriters Network. He has five completed features and a number of shorts, one of which was produced and did the festival circuit. He is working on his sixth feature...
Jami
BurkeJami Burke is a graduate of New York University's Tisch Film & Television program. She has produced several highly-acclaimed short films with award-winning filmmakers James Berry and Ryan Landels (The LXD), such as The Deal and Figure of Speech. She is also a producer for the upcoming web series, Red Scare. Jami has written several film and television scripts that have been recognized by contests such as the Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach Program, Scriptapalooza, Broad Humor Film Festival, and Shriekfest Film Festival. She is also the writer of Bicycle Illusions, a hidden object adventure video game to be released in late 2011.
Pippa
HinchleyONE WHITE CROW is Pippa’s first feature. It was optioned for 3 years by Allotria Productions in LA and went through re-writes with top script consultant Sarah Golding (The Constant Gardener).
Before this the script was chosen for the prestigious European development programme, North By Northwest. In November it was 1st runner up in the feature film section of the Nextventertainment.com competition. The characters and stories behind One White Crow are also the basis for a TV series: THE S.P.R – a 'Victorian X-files'. (treatment available from Casarotto's)
Pippa’s first short film Breaking Out (directed by Oscar winner Marienela Maldonaldo) premiered in competition in Cannes in 2004, was shown in over 20 international festivals over the next 2 years and won Best European short at Premier Plans 2005.
In the last year Pippa has been commissioned by RHI and Curious Pictures in NYC to write treatments for a 4-hour fantasy mini-series and a feature film, respectively.
She has written 2 series (60 episodes) of groundbreaking UK interactive teen web drama Sofia’s Diary for Sony/Bebo that was then picked up by Channel 5. It was the first Internet drama to move onto a prime time terrestrial channel. She also wrote for Emmy Award winning sketch show Smack The Pony.
Pippa is a graduate of the screenwriting MA at the London College of Communication and was a screenwriting lecturer at London University’s Birkbeck college. She is currently based in LA. Her agent in London is Casarotto Ramsay.
Link to website for more info www.pippahinchley.com or email directly to pippahinchley@gmail.com.
Chris
Norlin
A fearless young warrior uses a cursed treasure's magic to deceive a queen and win another woman's hand. When he pays the ultimate price for his deed, his widowed bride takes revenge with his sword. Based on the Nibelungen and Volsung legends of old.
Chris Norlin is a summa cum laude graduate of the UCLA film school, Scriptapalooza semifinalist, and Jeopardy! champion. In college, he played cello in the Young Musician's Foundation Orchestra under the baton of Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning composer Lalo Schifrin. In 2010, L.A.'s premier multicultural sketch comedy troupe OPM included two of Chris's sketches in their set at the San Francisco Fringe Fest, where they earned the Audience Favorite Award.
Chris enjoys traveling abroad and has visited North Korea, Bhutan, and Burma. His most memorable Hollywood moment came when his arm snapped in two while arm wrestling a movie stuntman. Chris's X-ray is currently on display in the "Avoiding Injury" section he added to Wikipedia's article about arm wrestling.
Martin
Horsey
A DAY IN
THE LIFE OF MARTY KAPLAN
indie comedy
A
bad day doesn't begin to describe it as Marty Kaplan tries to merely survive
in a world suddenly and inextricably gone mad.
Martin began entertaining
professionally at the age of 14 when he became the original Artful Dodger
in the very first West End production of OLIVER. Since then he has appeared
in films and TV on both sides of the Atlantic. Very active in community theatre
he began writing plays for local groups, one of which went on to receive a
seven week professional production at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.
From there it was a natural progression to writing screenplays.
Martin
has written about a half dozen screenplays, and so far he considers about
half of them worthy of serious consideration. He continues to work at being
the best writer he can be.
Martin currently lives in Camarillo, California with his wife of 41 years.
He has three grown children and hopes one day to grow up himself.
Paul
Myerberg
SKILLED
TO KILL
action/thriller
When a burnt out Black-Ops soldier wakes up next to a dead woman, he can't remember if he killed her and must find the truth before the cops catch him.
A murdered cop winds up in the body of the man who killed him, and must
free himself or be trapped forever with this scumbag.
TRUST ME NOT
thriller
Trapped in a snow storm with two psychotic fugitives, a thirty-something woman must use every skill she has to survive — even from the man in love with her (Think: Key Largo meets The Shining).
RESCUE
drama
A call for help from her sister propels a teenage foster girl into the violent, criminal underbelly of Denver, her only ally a B-movie stuntman.
BLACK MAGIC
supernatural horror
A Chicago cop must learn Haitian voodoo in order to defeat a magician who kills with magic.
OUT OF CONTROL
dark action/thriller
A CIA operative, returned home to America, is shocked to realize the women closest to him are being murdered — and he may have done it.
APRIL 15
drama
After driving her husband to suicide and harassing the widow, the Internal Revenue gets a surprise when the woman fights back.
JACKIN' THE DEVIL
action/drama with comedy
A tough kid turned minister gets a reputation as a modern-day Robin Hood by hijackin' the local thugs.
RED MAN
action/drama/supernatural
ANDY, a young homeless and spiritually void Native-American man, is accused of the death of a friend. During the pursuit Andy is saved by the cryptic and powerful LEONARD THREE FEATHERS who forces Andy into a bargain which propels Andy into returning to the reservation to investigate a murder, putting him on the road to spiritual meaning and a sense of his heritage.
FIGHT OR FLIGHT
action/drama
A kick-boxing teenage girl flees her foster home in search of the sister she was separated from as a child, only to find herself the target of a drug cartel.
Paul Myerberg has optioned
seven times by such companies as Once Upon A Time, Smart Egg, and Trioka,
and has considerable screenwriting education with John Truby, Ken Rotcop,
and Hal Croasmun’s ProSeries.
Paul has won or placed 19 times in such contests as Hollywood Outreach,
Nicholl, and StoryPros. He currently lives in Tehachapi, California, with
his wife, Janet, and cat, Dante. Paul can be reached at changes21st@att.net.
Sylvia
CaryIn a Philadelphia acting school, 18-year-old drama student, Harriett Tendler, meets 26-year-old former coal miner, Charlie Buchinsky, marries him and follows him to California where he becomes the international super-star known as Charles Bronson. This is the true story of their high profile marriage and divorce, and Harriett's struggle afterwards to reinvent herself as more than just the "ex" Mrs. Famous.
Sylvia Cary,
MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in addiction. She is the author
of four published books (It Must Be Five O'Clock Somewhere; Jolted Sober;
The Alcoholic Man; and Women Celebrate Long-Term Sobriety), five produced
educational videos and dozens of articles which have appeared in national
magazines (mostly on addiction and other mental health topics). She was awarded
the Clark Vincent Award by the California.
Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to honor her literary contributions
to the mental health profession.
She can be contacted at: Sylvia@SylviaCary.com
Tom
Streich & Brad MacDonald
HAPPY TRAILS
comedy
Tom's post-college
cable television production job led to a fifteen year career in advertising.
The ever-present writing toxin finally hit a main artery which induced the completion
of UCLA's Feature Screenwriting Program, which in turn yielded five scripts
to date. He also knows the difference between infer and imply.
Brad, a fifteen year acting veteran (SAG, AFTRA, CHIPPENDALES — SORRY MOM)
and no stranger to story. A busy commercial actor, Brad finds time to write
in between banking residual checks. He also knows the difference between farther
and further.
Tom and Brad have completed two comedy scripts, most recently Happy Trails, with more on the way. Down time usually involves debate over which "ERNEST GOES TO…" DVD to watch. You can reach Tom and Brad at streich6800@roadrunner.com.
Allen
SchubertAllen Schubert draws script ideas from his travels, former service in the U.S. Navy, and his current profession as an LAPD Detective. He has completed several screenplays in addition to the four listed above. Further correspondence can be sent through email at schubert_allen@hotmail.com.
AAs a father and elementary school principal, Kevin Aldrich has an inexhaustible supply of material for family comedies. As a screenwriter, Gene Doucette has written multiple short film scripts, produced (Parting) and optioned or in production (The Talk, The Lady In Black).
Charlatan, his first feature film script, was also a finalist in the Twin Rivers Media Festival. Gene's first novel Immortal is published by Hamel Integrity Publishing.
He is also an award-winning playwright (Deus Ex Quanta; Artifact; In the Valley of the Shadow) and an accomplished humorist (The OTHER Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: A Parody; Beating Up Daddy).
Gene lives in Cambridge MA with his wife and two children.
Kevin
Miller
MOTHER'S DAY
comedy
DEAD LAST
horror
Kevin Lee Miller’s scripts have repeatedly won awards including first-place nods from the Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach Program, Final Draft’s Big Break competition, Fade In Magazine and the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival.
In past lives, he was an actor on TV and in commercials, edited 40 network specials, was creative director for an ad agency, produced a feature-length John Lennon documentary titled IMAGINE, and supervised the creation of over 60 hours of DVD bonus materials for Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Most recently, he produced and edited the John Hughes tribute for the 2010 Oscars.
His email address: kevin@kevinleemiller.biz.
Marlo
Pettigrew
GOOD ON PAPER
romantic comedy/ strong female
Marlo Pettigrew is a CPA working in New York City who pursues her dream of screenwriting in her spare time. Over the past two years, she has produced two short films, Ctrl Z and Free of Charge, and taken lots of film and writing classes. Good On Paper is Marlo’s first feature screenplay and she feels honored to be recognized by the Hollywood Outreach Program. She is now busy writing her next spec screenplay.
She can be contacted at marlopettigrew@yahoo.com.
Michael
Willinsky & David Andrew Lloyd
HEAVEN HELP US
romantic comedy
Michael Willinsky and David Andrew Lloyd primarily write comedy – because that’s all they can take seriously. They have sold or optioned several screenplays, including deals with Fox / Searchlight, Permut Presentations and Franchise Pictures.
They began writing together in Fred Willard’s Comedy Group, where they penned dozens of side-splitting comedy sketches, including Judas: The Rematch and L.A. Vet, which are still putting audiences in stitches. They have won or placed in several writing contests, and their short Grave-Tech premiered at the DGA during VisionFest.
They have several other projects available, so, if you need a good laugh, shoot ‘em an e-mail (Iknowfunny@aol.com) and they might let you buy them lunch to discuss some of their scripts. You had ‘em at pastrami!
Kevin
Aldrich
WISH
family comedy
As a father and elementary school principal, Kevin Aldrich has an inexhaustible supply of material for family comedies like WISH. His scripts in a variety of genres have been recognized for their excellence by the Nicholl, the Scriptwriters Network, and Cinestory.
He is represented by Preferred Artists Agency.
Steve
Barr
MATING HABITS
action / horror
DEVIL WATER
action / horror / comedy / western
FACING THE
CROWD
thriller
Steve Barr is currently in a development deal with Disney, being produced by Academy Award-winning writer/producers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN).
He is a founder and the President of SoCal Film Group, a creative collective of filmmakers. His comic book DEVIL WATER is a top-seller for its genre and type, and the screenplay on which it is based has recently been optioned. Children and animals love him. He can hold his liquor. He is great in the sack.
Chris
Billett
REVIVAL INC.
sci-fi / thriller
BADLANDS
thriller, set in New Mexico
Born in England, Chris Billett emigrated to the USA and ran a software company for five years before turning to screenwriting fulltime. He has written on assignment and recently developed a horror feature for Asgaard Entertainment. He is in the process of optioning an action script to a well-established producer, and busy working on his next spec screenplay.
Gina
Cresse
THE MONA LISA CAPER
period drama — based on a true — and
incredible — story
PLAN B
thriller / adventure / romance
(based on the writer’s novel, which is the first in a series of five books)
Gina Cresse loves a good story. Since 1998, she's published 5 mystery novels that most describe as "fun page-turners" and was even offered an option on the series by a film company. She earned a Certificate in Feature Film Writing from UCLA in 2005. Her screenplays have been finalists, semi and quarter finalists in competitions such as Scriptapalooza, UCLA Screenwriting Contest, A Feeding Frenzy, and Page.
She writes fun, family-friendly stories that appeal to a broad audience.
Veronica F. DiPippo
THE KING’S PLEASURE
romance / period piece
DARE
action / adventure
NEVER THE BRIDE
romantic comedy
Prior to screenwriting, Veronica amassed a large body of produced works for theatre. Over thirty productions of her plays and one-acts have premiered at theatres on both coasts.
As a screenwriter, writing assignments have ranged from adapted to original works for studios and independents including Disney and her own production company, Crunch Entertainment. Projects currently in active packaging include her horror film Crimson Lake and a feature length docu-drama with virtuoso violinist Hubert Pralitz.
Also a filmmaker, Veronica’s award nominated short films have played at festivals across the country. Her most recent film, Dandelion Dharma, is currently in postproduction. Veronica will be teaching screenwriting at CSULA this winter. She is member of the WGA and Women In Film and is represented by Lee Keele at The Gersh Agency.
To see Veronica’s film trailers, go to: http://www.crunchentertainment.com/about_cr.html
Maggie
Franks
STAGEMOM
family / romantic comedy
Maggie grew up in LA with the Hollywood sign within view from her front porch. When her family relocated to a sleepy beach town, she sunk herself into on writing, surfing and the film classic, “Endless Summer.” Four sons later, she abandoned a successful copywriting career to study screenwriting at UCLA. Her endless passion for the ocean and family life extends to her screenwriting works and short films. She is an award winning screenwriter and filmmaker; and considers the ocean her home away from home.
David
Fulk
RUFUS REX
family comedy / adventure
Chicago transplant David Fulk has written five independent features and directed two, "Night Visitors" and "The Road to Flin Flon." His print anthologies "The Cubs Reader" and "A Blue Jays Companion" have been popular with baseball fans, and his stage play "The Potman Spoke Sooth" has been performed in hundreds of venues around the world.
Mark
Garbett
I’LL BE DAMNED
comedy
Mark Garbett's horror feature, MIDNIGHT MOVIE, was produced in 2007 by Bigfoot Entertainment. He has optioned several scripts, most recently the psychological horror SEWN to PHD Productions. Mark wrote and produced the supernatural thriller REFLECTIONS, and his short thriller SEND IN THE CLONES screened at the 2007 Dances With Films Festival.
He has won or placed in numerous screenwriting contests, including Slamdance/Sci-Fi Channel and The International Screenwriting Competition. Mark was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowship for his script OTHERWORLD.
He has several projects available, including THE CLAIMING, a thriller about a widow who suspects her seven year old daughter is predicting the deaths of those around them through her crayon drawings.
He can be reached at mgarbett@gmail.com.
Joe
Garrett
THINKING TALL
dark comedy
INDIGENOUS
HERO
sci-fi action / comedy
NATURE BOYS
comedy / drama
Joe Garrett’s first writing job was for The Sharper Image Catalog. As an advertising copywriter, he’s won two prestigious Clio Awards, including one for best commercial running in theatres.
As a screenwriter, he’s been a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and an Austin Film Festival finalist. An executive for a mid-sized production company recently wrote about him, “You are an exceptionally talented writer, and it is extremely refreshing to read work of such high caliber.”
Nancy
Hendrickson
THE HOUSE UPON THE SAND
coming of age / romance
Nancy Hendrickson, a former actress, teaches screenwriting at Los Angeles Film School, has written for Creative Screenwriting and MovieMaker magazines and penned over fifty promotional spots for The Disney Channel. Winner of the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and the Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Award, she was also a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowship, a finalist in the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and a finalist in the Sundance Writers Lab.
Nancy has written and directed three short films. Her first "The Healing" is currently on the festival circuit and won the GAIA Award for Best Short at the 2007 Moondance Film Festival. Hendrickson was recently hired to adapt the life story of psychologist-to-the-stars Dr. Irene Kassorla.
Syrie
James
JANE
historical romance
"A new and provocative look at one of the world's most beloved authors. This compelling novel should delight Austen fans far and wide."
—John Shors, author of "Beneath A Marble Sky""Tantalizing, tender, and true to the Austen mythos … highly recommended."
—Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal, starred review [Editors' Fall Picks, 2007]"…captures the heart with every turn... Syrie James compiles a great masterpiece."
—Coffee Time Romance"This is an amazing book. Jane Austen lives again in the pages of Ms. James's novel. She … captures the heart and mind of Jane Austen"
—Susan Carroll, author of "The Huntress""This book is nothing short of brilliant. Syrie James is a literary genii who fulfilled one of my most cherished fantasies. I felt as if she'd cozied me up to a tea table with the real Jane Austen for a heart-felt chat."
—Kimberly Cates, author of "The Gazebo"
FINDING THE ONE
romance / dramedy
TAME THE WILD SKY
family drama
Syrie James is known for writing plot-driven, character-rich stories that touch the heart. A WGA member, Syrie has sold nineteen screenplays and teleplays in a variety of genres, to Tri-Star Pictures, Fox Family Films, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX TV and the Lifetime Network, including HEAVENS TO BETSY for Dolly Parton, CAT & MOUSE for Gene Wilder, and ONCE IN A LIFETIME for Barry Bostwick and Lindsay Wagner. Syrie recently co-wrote and co-produced the independent film REAL.
Her HOP-winning screenplay JANE—an adaptation of her novel "The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen" (Avon/HarperCollinsPublishing, Nov. 2007) was a finalist in the 2007 MORE/Women in Film Screenplay Contest. Syrie’s play HOME FIRES BURNING was a finalist at the Palm Springs International Playwriting Festival. Her scripts UP and FINDING THE ONE (under the title PURE MORNING) have won or placed in numerous screenwriting competitions.
Please visit: www.syriejames.com.
Justin Jones & Nick Garey
OCCAM'S RAZOR
action / thriller
CIRCLE
drama
POMPEII
drama / action
Nick is a graduate of NYU Film school. Justin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Doug
Molitor
BLACK & WYATT
broad comedy
DIMMESDALE!
political spoof
I LOVE LUCIDITY
broad, high-concept comedy
GUARD #3
action spoof
Doug Molitor began his career writing sitcoms, then expanded into hour-longs and features. He is a 2003 graduate of the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop. His produced credits include ADVENTURE INC., SLIDERS, F/X THE SERIES, POLICE ACADEMY, YOUNG HERCULES, SLEDGE HAMMER and LUCKY LUKE. His zany feature I LOVE LUCIDITY was optioned twice.
He was elected to two-terms as an Altadena town councilman. He was a five-day JEOPARDY champion. He lives in L.A. with his wife and daughter.
Andy
Nordvall & Devon M. Schwartz
LONELY INTRAGALACTIC OVERLORD
SEEKS SINGLE EARTH FEMALE
sci-fi comedy in the spirit of "Spaceballs"
and "Galaxy Quest"
Andy and Devon are three-time winners of the Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition. Andy comes from the UCLA Screenwriting program, where he won the Professional Program and Showcase awards. He also writes sketch comedy for the BIG NEWS SHOW, and loves referring to himself in the third person.
Devon received a Theater and Psychology degree from Yale University after spending much of his youth in New York theater. Once in LA, he joined up with writing partner, Andy.
Devon is also a working actor (as Devon Michaels) and has performed on and off Broadway. Contact them at their Website: www.MySpace.com/MastersOfHumility.
Richard
Redlo
END OF DISCUSSION
romantic comedy
BILLY DONNER'S
PICNIC
drama with magical realism
KILLING SAMMY
dark comic thriller
THE OTHER TEAM
dramedy
Richard Redlo is the author of a television pilot and 11 feature-length screenplays, three of which have been optioned by producers and a number of which have won or placed highly in contests.
Richard is the founder of Upstate (New York) Independent Screenwriters Forum. Richard is represented by Jeannine Edmunds (jedmundsmgt@gmail.com — www.thestoryclinic.com).
Shaene
M. Siders
INNER DEMONS
action thriller
Shaene M. Siders is a writer/producer who runs her own business writing and consulting for the entertainment and technology industries. She has been writing fiction since kindergarten, which makes her the typical "overnight success."
In addition to a HOP win, her scripts have scored finalist and quarterfinalist awards in separate Scriptapalooza contests and a handful of awards in other contests. Shaene has written articles for magazines such as Creative Screenwriting, and she publishes her own series of creative training manuals.
Recent titles like Java for Mad Scientists have been used repeatedly by major companies such as NASA and Federal Express.
Shaene lives in Long Beach, California, and is actively seeking further assignment work as she pursues her freelance career.
Please contact her at producer@DragonUnderGlass.com or visit http://www.DragonUnderGlass.com for more information.
Lance Thompson
DOG TAGS
action / drama
ONE NIGHT WITH
YOU
comedy
RIO TIEMPO
western
THE LEGEND
OF LONG JOHN
low-budget comedy
Lance Thompson is a script doctor (The Two Jakes, The Honeymooners), a television writer (Mr. Belvedere) and an award-winning creator of motion picture advertising.
He's a staff writer at web sites lowdowncentral.com and NewMediaJournal.com, and has written and photographed for magazines such as Cowboys & Indians, Air & Space Smithsonian, and Fly Past in the UK. He's a Scriptwriters Network High School Fellowship mentor, and graduated magna cum laude from the UCLA Motion Picture/Television program.
Christopher Valin
SECRET DISCIPLE
suspense / thriller
METALHEAD
comedy
In addition to the Hollywood Outreach Program, Christopher was a winner in the Star Trek: Kirk vs. Picard screenwriting contest (Round 3), a finalist in Scriptapalooza TV, a semifinalist in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition, a quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship, Scriptapalooza, and Scriptapalooza TV, and was in the Top Ten Percent in the Austin Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition.
Christopher has additional projects and can be reached at cvalin@aol.com.
Steve
Warren
THE GHOSTS OF BULL RUN
Civil War drama
EDEN’S AIR
futuristic thriller
MARCUS
drama — based on a true story
MOSES OF THE
BULRUSHES
comedy
Steve Warren is a produced playwright and optioned and produced screenwriter. His musical Gone To Texas received a New York reading in May at the York Theatre and opens in San Antonio this March. Two of his short screenplays have been produced, one directed by Michael Waxman, co-producer of Ali, The Insider, and Collateral.
In addition to winning the Scriptwriters Network Carl Sautter Award, Steve has also won the Hollywood Symposium contest and has been a Nicholl semi-finalist.
Laurel
Wetzork
IRISH MISTS
strong female / foreign setting /
dramedy
Laurel Wetzork is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, published author, and fine artist. She also co-produced, directed and wrote the indie feature film Rogues.
Laurel graduated from USC's Cinema School with an emphasis in production. Her screenplay Irish Mists was in the top 7% of the Nicholl Fellowship 2007 and winner of the Scriptwriters Network Competition.
Irish Mists focuses on a dysfunctional family and its Alzheimer's afflicted matriarch. Her play, Devil Inside, was a finalist in the NETC play writing competition.
There's more about her and her projects on her website: http://www.mojewetzorkstudios.com. She may be reached via email: lmw_cre8s@hotmail.com.
Tommy Wood & Marc Benton
PIECES OF EIGHT
historical action / adventure
CHASING THE
WIND
fantasy
Tommy Wood achieved his BFA in Communication Arts from the Atlanta College of Art. His screenplay, Pieces of Eight, reached the Top 30 of the 2006 Nicholl's Fellowship in Screenwriting, tied for 1st Place (with two of his other scripts) in the 2006 Best First Page.