I'm a creative force, excelling in screenwriting, playwriting and authoring. My work spans genres from award-winning dramas and comedies to horror and thought-provoking commentary. With a career marked by critical acclaim and numerous accolades, my impact extends across film, television, and theater. A true renaissance man and graduate of SDSU and USC, my talents are as diverse as my storytelling.

Alan Niku is a writer and MFA filmmaker from the only Persian-Kurdish-Assyrian-Jewish family in San Luis Obispo, California. He has written and directed comedic shorts, music videos, mockumentaries, and a Bollywood-style action flick shot in the back-alleys of LA. His dozen feature and TV pilot scripts include an acclaimed comedic pilot about the daily life of a mohel, or ritual circumciser.

Alex Cheng is an Asian American writer, comedian, radio producer, and filmmaker from Minnesota. He writes and performs comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York on shows like Asian AF, Harold Night, and Characters Welcome. He has also performed at the Kennedy Center. During the day, he produces and reports for NPR. He received his BA from Stanford University.

Angela (she/they) is a Mexican American writer whose stories are soaked in magic and center on themes of found family and beating the odds. They were recently staffed on Disney TV Animation’s 6-11 series PRIMOS. They've also written for PAW PATROL, RUBBLE & CREW, and AppleTV+’s STILLWATER among others. They co-edited an upcoming Latinx comics anthology, FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES.

Ashlea's writing career began as a teen playwright in a rural Bahamian church. When she moved to USA for pre-med, ghostwriting supported her. Later, as a science prof, a friend asked a life-altering favor: proofread a TV script. This favor led to a year of insatiably reading scripts, reverse engineering shows, and writing specs. It fit. Ashlea has worked for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and Paramount.

Atif is from the Washington, DC area and was born to Moroccan and Jamaican parents. Atif’s stand up has over 200,000 streams on SPOTIFY. In terms of writing Atif was a writer for the CBS DIVERSITY SHOWCASE in 2018. Atif wrote the feature film TWICE BITTEN, that was released for streaming and theatrical in 2021 through BET films. In 2022 was a member of Warner Bros Discover Early Career Program.

Catherine Oyster is a script coordinator with credits on AGBO's action series EXTRACTION and teen action thriller OUTER BANKS. When she's not firing out script distributions, Catherine writes drama. Her choice of subject matter is like her choice of chocolate, dark. She explores themes of oppression and class, most recently in her sci-fi novelette THE HOSTESS, that she is adapting for the screen.

Daniela Labi is a Libyan-American drama writer born and raised in Silicon Valley. She worked in counterterrorism in DC, hydropolitics in the Middle East, and tech in San Francisco before finally finding her calling as a TV writer. Daniela’s writing has earned her spots in the Paramount/CBS Writers Mentoring Program. She’s currently staffed on CBS's S.W.A.T.

A Script Pipeline TV Writing finalist & GLAAD Media Award-nominated playwright, Donald Jolly began his career in the theatre. As a (gay) child of divorce in the '80s & '90s, Jolly was tugged between one parent's world of the Black Church & respectability and the other parent's world of interracial lesbian romance & rednecks. Today he writes quirky character-driven dramas about LGBTQ+ Black people.

Gia King is a Los Angeles-based writer who has worked on series including A Black Lady Sketch Show and Marvel's upcoming Agatha All Along. As a trans woman of color, she seeks to elevate marginalized voices in her work and write stories that would inspire her younger self and others like her.

Kanisha Williams (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and administrative professional from Huntsville, AL. In 2020, they completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Currently, they plan professional development workshops for music educators nationwide. Their professional goal is to help witty, empathetic queer and BIPOC-created content find its audience.

Luna Vasquez is a queer, nonbinary Latinx born and raised in Houston, Texas by two poor, Salvadorian immigrants. Television, cartoons especially, helped Luna throughout their rough upbringing and Luna wants to help pay it forward for future generations of queer POC kids who also look to fiction for comfort and catharsis.

Lynn Maleh is a Syrian-American writer/stand-up, selected for the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program. Prior, she worked as the Writers' Assistant on Waffles + Mochi and Act Your Age, on which she co-wrote an episode. She's performed on Netflix Is A Joke Fest and written for The Onion and Reductress. She co-runs Hilarious Habibis, the Hollywood Improv's first MENA standup show.

Morgan Webber-Ottey is a writer and recovering lawyer. After discovering that there’s a lot less “trial strategy over takeout” in the real world than on TV, she made the difficult decision to hang up her litigator hat and swap one form of self-flagellation for another: writing darkly satirical one-hour dramas.

Omar Nava is a Los Angeles-based writer who loves merging the “silly” and “smart” to craft hilarious family stories that are rich with empathy. He's participated in the CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, worked for Will Smith's, Westbrook Entertainment, completed the WGF’s Writers' Access Support Staff Training Program, and taken part in Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad Writing Mentorship Lab.

They say writers should write what they know, so if you’re looking for an Indian-American writer who knows grits, bad decisions, & 10 different ways to sneak dirty words into your mehendi, Rachel Christian is the only woman for the job. An avid storyteller since she was old enough to ask how to spell “going to the store”, Rachel is a second generation Indian American writer with a love of sitcoms.

Scout Comm is a non-binary writer from Pittsburgh with seven years of experience creating and shaping stories. They currently work as the Script Coordinator on LONG STORY SHORT, a new Netflix comedy from BOJACK HORSEMAN creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Prior to that, they were the Script Coordinator on THE L WORD: GENERATION Q, co-writing the series finale alongside showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan.

Spike hails from the rural border town of Del Rio, TX, where the hottest spot after 9PM is Applebee’s. After being selected for the WGF Support Staff Training Program, he served as the script coordinator for S1 of GOOSEBUMPS on Disney+. He has since become the current associate writer for S5 of BIG CITY GREENS on Disney Channel. Spike is a proud graduate from the University of Texas at Austin.