Screenwriters
Adam Strange - IMDb - Website
Adam Strange founded Deadline Junkies in July 2009. The original Tuesday Deadline Junkies has been going strong non-stop ever since at the same time, day, and location. Adam is the writer, creator, and star of Friended Forever. DJ scripts include "Robot Love," "Love Detective," and "Dick Smashers."
Alex Hanno - email - IMDb - website
Alex Hanno is the writer behind the upcoming apocalyptic thriller A Social Contract starring Sean Astin, the romantic dramedy Elephants which is “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, and the Independent Television Festival award winning TV show Served. His latest projects, the New England familial drama Seabrook and that Welsh dramedy A Sanctuary For Water Voles have placed in the likes of ISA’s Screenwriting Fellowship, Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Scriptapalooza, and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He’s also created numerous short films, including the Sunscreen Film Festival selection Lunacy, the Cardiff Film Festival selection The Chameleon, and the DTLA Film Festival selection Bonus Time, as well as a piece for NBC’s Diversity Showcase. In addition to co-owning his production company, The Chameleon Effect, with creative partner Luca Malacrino, Alex has also worked in development for the likes of Broad Green Pictures and VMI Worldwide, alongside co-managing Deadline Junkies, a professional screenwriting organization based in Los Angeles, California.
Andrew Knopp - email
Andrew Knopp is a screenwriter, former Development Executive, and the host of Deadline Junkies Thursday Night. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking. After moving to Los Angeles, Andrew became Development Manager for WIT.tv, a digital studio and incubator, where he oversaw a 20+ project slate of short and long-form series and feature films. He later wrote for and produced “Shaded" on the Fusion Network, starring Wayne Brady and Jordan Black, and "The Elite Daily Show" on Verizon’s go90. Andrew currently has two features scripts in development with Nasser Entertainment. His original feature screenplay “Treblinka” was a top 10% entry in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and a top 10 finalist for the Page Awards. In addition to being a Deadline Junkie, he is also a baseball junkie.
Ashley Scott Meyers - email - IMDb - Webste
After graduating from college Ashley Scott Meyers moved from his childhood home in Annapolis, Maryland, to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career as a screenwriter. During his first three years in Los Angeles, Meyers wrote or co-wrote eight feature length screenplays, earned his first few dollars as a screenwriter, and saw two of his original screenplays get produced. Man Overboard, also co-written with DJ alum, Nathan Ives, was sold to and produced by Treasure Entertainment. Hiis most recent films inlcude "Ninja Apocalypse," "Snake Out of Compton," and "The Pinch."
Bryan Chesters - email - IMDb
Award winning actor/writer/producer Bryan Chesters (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) has written several TV pilots and features. His scripts have advanced in The Page Awards, Austin Film Festival, Final Draft's Big Break Competition, Scriptapalooza, and more. His short film, Saving John Murphy has been in numerous film festivals in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including the Montreal International Film Festival. His film, Hunter Grail, is in pre-production with Emmy award winning cinematographer Roy H. Wager and director Lukas Colombo attached, and four distribution companies have signed on as well, including Archstone. As an actor, Bryan can be seen on everything from Mad Men (Dir. John Hamm) to Modern Family. His film, A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return, is currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon.
David Wingert - email - IMDb
David Wingert is a screenwriter living in North Hollywood. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, David made his first feature in high school and his first screenplay freshman year of college. Since then, he’s written eight features, four award-winning shorts and a television pilot. After moving to Los Angeles in 2016, David has worked for seven different companies and nonprofits including Paramount Pictures and Hyde Park Entertainment.
Erin Donovan - email - IMDb
Erin Donovan is currently a co-creator, along with Ken Woodruff, on a new crime series for Amazon’s Freevee TV, titled TOTAL CHAOS. Filming in Marseille, France, it’s set for production summer 2023. Before this, Erin was a writer on the NBC UniTV series, THE ENEMY WITHIN, created by Ken Woodruff. Last year Erin developed a historical drama with Bruno Heller, HOUSE OF ISABEL (her original script was featured on The Blacklist and a Sundance Episodic Lab finalist, 2019). Prior to that, she also collaborated with Bruno Heller on a drama series, UNTOLD, for ITV UK. This series was originally inspired by a documentary Erin wrote/produced about the Great British Train Robbery, A TALE OF TWO THIEVES, distributed by Virgil Films/Netflix. Recently, Erin sold a digital series thriller to Indigenous Media, IN THE DARK, with Mark- Paul Gosselaar to direct and star. Other work includes: writer on THE MENTALIST, season 7. She also sold a one-hour sci- fi/thriller pilot, SWITCH, to WB Horizon.
Jordan Imiola - email - IMDb - Website
Jordan Imiola is a screenwriter from the city of good neighbors, Buffalo, NY. Before moving to the city of angels, he was the first Buffalo State student in history to be nominated for the WGA Michael Collyer Fellowship. He has worked for Fox, Marvista Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment and has ghostwritten for various production companies. He wrote "Sunny & Ray," a feel-good comedy about a boy trying to kill himself. It was presented at Tuesday Junkies in 2013. The film is now in development with director, Anthony Sabet after it was sold to ASA Pictures. Jordan is also the creator and showrunner of Romantically Hopeless, Spy Time, Wrigley Friends, and Monster Therapy. (All series star actors from Deadline Junkies.)
Julia Begeron - email - IMDb - Website
I’m a UCLA graduate (MPTV), writer, director, producer and movie-lover. Some of my absolute favorite films are “Bridesmaids,” “Spy” and “The Heat.” (Hmm, I see a thread.) I’m also the Vice-president of an amazing company PaintScaping.com.(Check it out.) Being the VP basically means I do whatever it takes to get the job done – including writing dozens of projection mapped shows, sewing elf shoes or even creating a “modesty pouch” for a green screened streaker. Truly, no job is too big or too small. ;-) Growing up around the business taught me “there’s no people like show people.” Although in L.A, “everything the traffic will allow” is pretty limiting.
Leah Poulliot - email - IMDb - Website
Leah Poulliot is a business school dropout turned television writer currently staffed on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. She's currently credited with four episodes of the series (513,612,707,712) . Leah specializes in one-hour drama, specifically in the sci-fi, thriller, and horror genres. It should go without saying that she loves a good superhero story, too. Previously, she's worked for companies FOX and SONY but is presently stationed at WARNER BROTHERS. In her free time, Leah expresses her creativity through UCB improv, and writers’ groups Safehouse and Deadline Junkies (which she helps moderate). When not taking pictures of her dog in portrait mode, she can be found filming her in cinematic. Lastly, she knows her last name is impossible to pronounce, so to save you the trouble of asking it's Pole-Lee-Ot.
Lori Crawford - email
Lori Crawford is a synchronized swimming, Christian erotica writing, preacher's kid from a small town in Ohio. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved to L.A. to chase her dream of writing television shows. Along the way, she took a tiny detour into the world of authoring romance novels. She's published five books with Kensington among other publishers. Since Lori returned to screenwriting, she was selected for the inaugural class of UCLA’s Professional Program in TV Writing. She's had several scripts advance in high-profile contests and fellowships like the Austin Film Festival, the CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship, the Page Awards, and NBC's Writers on the Verge. Lori is always looking for the next opportunity to advance her career to a new level and expects her latest obsession with writing Karma Porn to take her there.
Kelly Kurowski - email - IMDb
Kelly has had a passion for writing comedy before she could even say mama and dada. Sometimes you just know at an early age. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago where she’s from majoring in screenwriting. Kelly has worked on TV shows such as Hellcats, Devious Maids and Good Behavior as an assistant in the writer’s room. She is currently staring at her computer trying to think of witty dialogue to end this bio....fade out.
Mattew O'Connell - email - Website
Matt's a writer, editor, producer, and filmmaker in Burbank, CA. A graduate of Emerson College, In 2006, Matt produced and shot the independent feature film Night Sounds which premiered at the MassBay Film Festival. Watch the trailer. Matt's screenwriting has been recognized by dozens of competitions including the Austin Film Festival, Final Draft, The Tracking Board, Cinequest, Screencraft, American Zoetrope, and Script Pipeline. In 2018, Matt was hired by Nasser Entertainment to write two movie-of-the-week thrillers.
Rund Shami - email - IMDb
Rund (Rand) Shami is an Arab-American writer known for the web series, Meme Boy(2018). She was born in Dallas, TX and was raised in Amman, Jordan. She graduated with a major in Screenwriting from The University of Miami where she was a staff writer for UMTV's late night comedy show, Off The Wire. She's worked as support staff in multiple TV writers rooms as a writers' assistant and script coordinator.
Ross Martin - email - IMDb
Ross H. Martin grew up in Armonk, NY. After graduating from University of Hartford in CT with a B.A., an English major, Ross moved to Los Angeles, CA. Ross attended Columbia College-Hollywood film school. Ross produced, wrote, directed and edited short films mostly on 16mm. “The Turnaround” short film was the “Best of the Fest” at the Rochester Intl. Film Festival. Ross produced, co-wrote and co-directed feature film dramatic comedy, “Rubbernecking” starring Corbin Bernsen. In 2008, Ross edited the feature film “War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave” starring and directed by C. Thomas Howell. Ross writes in various genres; comedy, drama, horror and science fiction. His short films can be viewed at rosshmartin.com
Sophia Varnai - email - Website
Sophia Varnai is an award-winning director and writer whose work explores themes such as the relationship between innocence and adolescence, queer girlhood, and the tiny fireworks of everyday life. Some of her recent projects include her feature screenplay HAZEL’S SUMMER OF STARTING OVER; short films FRIEND ZONE, FISH IN MURKY WATER, and BIRTHDAY GIRL; and audio series WANNABE. She also recently graduated summa cum laude from Pace University with a degree in directing and creative writing, and was a 2021 production intern at documentary filmmaking company 4th Row Films.
Adam Strange founded Deadline Junkies in July 2009. The original Tuesday Deadline Junkies has been going strong non-stop ever since at the same time, day, and location. Adam is the writer, creator, and star of Friended Forever. DJ scripts include "Robot Love," "Love Detective," and "Dick Smashers."
Alex Hanno - email - IMDb - website
Alex Hanno is the writer behind the upcoming apocalyptic thriller A Social Contract starring Sean Astin, the romantic dramedy Elephants which is “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, and the Independent Television Festival award winning TV show Served. His latest projects, the New England familial drama Seabrook and that Welsh dramedy A Sanctuary For Water Voles have placed in the likes of ISA’s Screenwriting Fellowship, Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Scriptapalooza, and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He’s also created numerous short films, including the Sunscreen Film Festival selection Lunacy, the Cardiff Film Festival selection The Chameleon, and the DTLA Film Festival selection Bonus Time, as well as a piece for NBC’s Diversity Showcase. In addition to co-owning his production company, The Chameleon Effect, with creative partner Luca Malacrino, Alex has also worked in development for the likes of Broad Green Pictures and VMI Worldwide, alongside co-managing Deadline Junkies, a professional screenwriting organization based in Los Angeles, California.
Andrew Knopp - email
Andrew Knopp is a screenwriter, former Development Executive, and the host of Deadline Junkies Thursday Night. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking. After moving to Los Angeles, Andrew became Development Manager for WIT.tv, a digital studio and incubator, where he oversaw a 20+ project slate of short and long-form series and feature films. He later wrote for and produced “Shaded" on the Fusion Network, starring Wayne Brady and Jordan Black, and "The Elite Daily Show" on Verizon’s go90. Andrew currently has two features scripts in development with Nasser Entertainment. His original feature screenplay “Treblinka” was a top 10% entry in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and a top 10 finalist for the Page Awards. In addition to being a Deadline Junkie, he is also a baseball junkie.
Ashley Scott Meyers - email - IMDb - Webste
After graduating from college Ashley Scott Meyers moved from his childhood home in Annapolis, Maryland, to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career as a screenwriter. During his first three years in Los Angeles, Meyers wrote or co-wrote eight feature length screenplays, earned his first few dollars as a screenwriter, and saw two of his original screenplays get produced. Man Overboard, also co-written with DJ alum, Nathan Ives, was sold to and produced by Treasure Entertainment. Hiis most recent films inlcude "Ninja Apocalypse," "Snake Out of Compton," and "The Pinch."
Bryan Chesters - email - IMDb
Award winning actor/writer/producer Bryan Chesters (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) has written several TV pilots and features. His scripts have advanced in The Page Awards, Austin Film Festival, Final Draft's Big Break Competition, Scriptapalooza, and more. His short film, Saving John Murphy has been in numerous film festivals in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including the Montreal International Film Festival. His film, Hunter Grail, is in pre-production with Emmy award winning cinematographer Roy H. Wager and director Lukas Colombo attached, and four distribution companies have signed on as well, including Archstone. As an actor, Bryan can be seen on everything from Mad Men (Dir. John Hamm) to Modern Family. His film, A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return, is currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon.
David Wingert - email - IMDb
David Wingert is a screenwriter living in North Hollywood. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, David made his first feature in high school and his first screenplay freshman year of college. Since then, he’s written eight features, four award-winning shorts and a television pilot. After moving to Los Angeles in 2016, David has worked for seven different companies and nonprofits including Paramount Pictures and Hyde Park Entertainment.
Erin Donovan - email - IMDb
Erin Donovan is currently a co-creator, along with Ken Woodruff, on a new crime series for Amazon’s Freevee TV, titled TOTAL CHAOS. Filming in Marseille, France, it’s set for production summer 2023. Before this, Erin was a writer on the NBC UniTV series, THE ENEMY WITHIN, created by Ken Woodruff. Last year Erin developed a historical drama with Bruno Heller, HOUSE OF ISABEL (her original script was featured on The Blacklist and a Sundance Episodic Lab finalist, 2019). Prior to that, she also collaborated with Bruno Heller on a drama series, UNTOLD, for ITV UK. This series was originally inspired by a documentary Erin wrote/produced about the Great British Train Robbery, A TALE OF TWO THIEVES, distributed by Virgil Films/Netflix. Recently, Erin sold a digital series thriller to Indigenous Media, IN THE DARK, with Mark- Paul Gosselaar to direct and star. Other work includes: writer on THE MENTALIST, season 7. She also sold a one-hour sci- fi/thriller pilot, SWITCH, to WB Horizon.
Jordan Imiola - email - IMDb - Website
Jordan Imiola is a screenwriter from the city of good neighbors, Buffalo, NY. Before moving to the city of angels, he was the first Buffalo State student in history to be nominated for the WGA Michael Collyer Fellowship. He has worked for Fox, Marvista Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment and has ghostwritten for various production companies. He wrote "Sunny & Ray," a feel-good comedy about a boy trying to kill himself. It was presented at Tuesday Junkies in 2013. The film is now in development with director, Anthony Sabet after it was sold to ASA Pictures. Jordan is also the creator and showrunner of Romantically Hopeless, Spy Time, Wrigley Friends, and Monster Therapy. (All series star actors from Deadline Junkies.)
Julia Begeron - email - IMDb - Website
I’m a UCLA graduate (MPTV), writer, director, producer and movie-lover. Some of my absolute favorite films are “Bridesmaids,” “Spy” and “The Heat.” (Hmm, I see a thread.) I’m also the Vice-president of an amazing company PaintScaping.com.(Check it out.) Being the VP basically means I do whatever it takes to get the job done – including writing dozens of projection mapped shows, sewing elf shoes or even creating a “modesty pouch” for a green screened streaker. Truly, no job is too big or too small. ;-) Growing up around the business taught me “there’s no people like show people.” Although in L.A, “everything the traffic will allow” is pretty limiting.
Leah Poulliot - email - IMDb - Website
Leah Poulliot is a business school dropout turned television writer currently staffed on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. She's currently credited with four episodes of the series (513,612,707,712) . Leah specializes in one-hour drama, specifically in the sci-fi, thriller, and horror genres. It should go without saying that she loves a good superhero story, too. Previously, she's worked for companies FOX and SONY but is presently stationed at WARNER BROTHERS. In her free time, Leah expresses her creativity through UCB improv, and writers’ groups Safehouse and Deadline Junkies (which she helps moderate). When not taking pictures of her dog in portrait mode, she can be found filming her in cinematic. Lastly, she knows her last name is impossible to pronounce, so to save you the trouble of asking it's Pole-Lee-Ot.
Lori Crawford - email
Lori Crawford is a synchronized swimming, Christian erotica writing, preacher's kid from a small town in Ohio. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved to L.A. to chase her dream of writing television shows. Along the way, she took a tiny detour into the world of authoring romance novels. She's published five books with Kensington among other publishers. Since Lori returned to screenwriting, she was selected for the inaugural class of UCLA’s Professional Program in TV Writing. She's had several scripts advance in high-profile contests and fellowships like the Austin Film Festival, the CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship, the Page Awards, and NBC's Writers on the Verge. Lori is always looking for the next opportunity to advance her career to a new level and expects her latest obsession with writing Karma Porn to take her there.
Kelly Kurowski - email - IMDb
Kelly has had a passion for writing comedy before she could even say mama and dada. Sometimes you just know at an early age. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago where she’s from majoring in screenwriting. Kelly has worked on TV shows such as Hellcats, Devious Maids and Good Behavior as an assistant in the writer’s room. She is currently staring at her computer trying to think of witty dialogue to end this bio....fade out.
Mattew O'Connell - email - Website
Matt's a writer, editor, producer, and filmmaker in Burbank, CA. A graduate of Emerson College, In 2006, Matt produced and shot the independent feature film Night Sounds which premiered at the MassBay Film Festival. Watch the trailer. Matt's screenwriting has been recognized by dozens of competitions including the Austin Film Festival, Final Draft, The Tracking Board, Cinequest, Screencraft, American Zoetrope, and Script Pipeline. In 2018, Matt was hired by Nasser Entertainment to write two movie-of-the-week thrillers.
Rund Shami - email - IMDb
Rund (Rand) Shami is an Arab-American writer known for the web series, Meme Boy(2018). She was born in Dallas, TX and was raised in Amman, Jordan. She graduated with a major in Screenwriting from The University of Miami where she was a staff writer for UMTV's late night comedy show, Off The Wire. She's worked as support staff in multiple TV writers rooms as a writers' assistant and script coordinator.
Ross Martin - email - IMDb
Ross H. Martin grew up in Armonk, NY. After graduating from University of Hartford in CT with a B.A., an English major, Ross moved to Los Angeles, CA. Ross attended Columbia College-Hollywood film school. Ross produced, wrote, directed and edited short films mostly on 16mm. “The Turnaround” short film was the “Best of the Fest” at the Rochester Intl. Film Festival. Ross produced, co-wrote and co-directed feature film dramatic comedy, “Rubbernecking” starring Corbin Bernsen. In 2008, Ross edited the feature film “War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave” starring and directed by C. Thomas Howell. Ross writes in various genres; comedy, drama, horror and science fiction. His short films can be viewed at rosshmartin.com
Sophia Varnai - email - Website
Sophia Varnai is an award-winning director and writer whose work explores themes such as the relationship between innocence and adolescence, queer girlhood, and the tiny fireworks of everyday life. Some of her recent projects include her feature screenplay HAZEL’S SUMMER OF STARTING OVER; short films FRIEND ZONE, FISH IN MURKY WATER, and BIRTHDAY GIRL; and audio series WANNABE. She also recently graduated summa cum laude from Pace University with a degree in directing and creative writing, and was a 2021 production intern at documentary filmmaking company 4th Row Films.