Bay Area-born Aaron Ruttenberg is a TV comedy/drama writer and Cal State LA film grad. His scripts have placed in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition, and his short doc, Bound, won Best Short Documentary at a local Los Angeles festival. A former floater at Legendary, Aaron now works as a copywriter. He’s also a tarot reader, aspiring scuba diver, and trivia champ.

Alley Turner is a Black writer from Newark, NJ who enjoys writing dramedies and dramas about dream chasers who defy expectations. She has worked as a production assistant on feature films and at music festivals in Atlanta and NYC. Prior to TV/film, she worked on Ebola response and prevention at CDC. Based in Los Angeles, she enjoys long walks at the grocery store, especially the sauce aisle.

Bryce Marrero is an LA-born writer, director, and self-deprecating geek. He was a writer on Nickelodeon’s IT’S PONY, directed films for Hoorae Media and ShortsTV, and was in the Coverfly Top 1%. Currently, he’s developing a Sci-Fi film with Vital Pictures. Bryce loves to make people laugh, even when they beg him to stop.

Colin Rothamel is a comedy writer, ’90s lover, and unofficial pop music historian. Growing up gay in Bible-thumping Texas, he abandoned studying Jesus to worship more significant figures in history: the Spice Girls. Now based in LA, Colin has worked on productions for CBS, Netflix, and The CW, and will produce his dark comedy web series this spring.

A queer, multi-racial writer/performer, Jess Kim uses satire and dark comedy to question humanity’s obsession with maintaining social status in a world beyond our control. Whales could flip a yacht at any time! She won the 2022 SNL Award at The Groundlings, has written and performed in many a sketch comedy show, and accidentally organized Los Angeles rock climbing gyms into a union.

Kadi is an LA-based writer and self-taught animator originally from Harlem. Obsessed with stories, Kadi spent most of her childhood either drawing cartoons or fighting for the remote as one of nine children in a raucous West African home. Since then, Kadi has worked as an assistant on various scripted, news, and late-night TV shows like SNL. She is currently a creative department assistant at Netflix.

Kayla Yumi Lewis is a Korean-American writer from Silicon Valley with a BFA from NYU. Her debut YA pilot, PARKED IN AMERICA, premiered at SXSW '21 in the episodic category and won the Pitch-a-thon. PARKED screened at 8 more festivals including SeriesFest, where she won the Best Writer (Drama) Award and the Level Forward Impact Award. She currently works in development at Uzo Aduba's Meynon Media.

Kyle Alexander is a former college football champion turned screenwriter, based in Inglewood, CA. When he's not writing his next comic book fan-fiction or ruining kid's days on Call of Duty, Kyle works as a writer and story producer for a small production company focused on social justice issues, using his experiences to fill his stories with heart, humor, and a smidge of social commentary.

Rubén Mendive is a queer Mexican immigrant and comedy writer who grew up undocumented on Chicago’s South Side. He’s an alum of the WGF Writers' Access Support Staff Training Program, the NHMC Series Scriptwriters Program, and Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab. He also hosts La Lista: A Latinx Writers Podcast, an interview series spotlighting diverse voices in media.

Indian born and raised, Archana is a graduate of Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program ’23 and UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting. Her feature and TV scripts have placed in Final Draft Big Break Competition, Austin Film Festival, and CineStory Feature and TV Contest. Her latest short, EARBUDS premiered at Tasveer - the world’s only Oscar-qualifying South Asian film festival.

Ashley Obinwanne is an LA-based writer and filmmaker who was born in New York and raised in Nigeria. She enjoys writing grounded, character-driven, dramas and dramedies about interconnected groups of people. Most recently, she served as the librettist, co-director, and producer on Better Off With You, a musical that had a sold-out performance at The 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

J. Gabriel Ware is a journalist and a TV news producer from Detroit. He worked at ABC News, where he field produced for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir. He covered the George Floyd protests, the Harvey Weinstein trial, and COVID-19.

Kyle is an east-coast-based writer specializing in comedy that highlights flawed but well-meaning characters in absurd situations. In 2020, he was selected as a participant in the NBC Late Night Writer Workshop and in the 2022 Warner Bros Comedic Voices program.

Madonna Diaz-Refugia got her start writing jokes for drag queens in Philly and now lives in Los Angeles where they write about mental illness and being queer in the Filipinx-American community. She was part of the inaugural class of the Mentorship Matters Fellowship and studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Her work has also been featured on Reductress and WFMU.

Samuel C. Spitale is a storyteller, screenwriter, and author of the graphic novel How to Win the War on Truth. Growing up gay in the Deep South, he enjoys writing fish-out-of-water comedies that critique society, often through a lone voice of sanity in an insane world. He’s a former Development Manager for Star Wars collectibles, a Moth Story Slam winner, and a one-time puppet show performer.

Raised on teen soaps and hardcore music, Stephanie Leke is a first-generation Cameroonian-American writer and producer. She writes female-driven stories centering Black women existing in spaces they’re traditionally erased from. Currently in nonfiction, her recent credits include Mary J. Blige’s My Life (Amazon), Harry & Meghan (Netflix), and the Pharrell Williams Lego biopic, Piece by Piece.

Diarra McCormick is a screenwriter and playwright who expresses her pain in a comedic and dramatic way, which is showcased in her original TV pilot, Homebound, based on Hurricane Katrina. Her full-length stage play called, Black People Problems, is based on the notion that black people are still mentally enslaved. McCormick is an Air Force veteran and has an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from LMU.

As a queer Latina, Isabel's writing focuses on putting a satirical spin on coming-of-age narratives and social critique, drawing from her real life experiences. Most recently Isabel has worked as a Writers’ Production Assistant in a development room for Amazon, having had the privilege of learning from writers who have all lead their own rooms.

Malaika Jules is a writer and stand-up comedian known for her humorous takes on urban subcultures. A former rapper, she has performed in dive bars and festivals. Her poetry appears in public art instillations and has been commissioned by the MTA and the City of Inglewood. A 2022 American Woman Playwriting Fellow, her one-woman show 90’s Hip Hop Raised Me won an award at the 2023 Fringe Festival.

Michelle Christine Anastasia De la Rosa Driscoll, or Michelle for short, is a gay, Dominican comedian originally from Harlem, NY. She graduated NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a Gates Millennium Scholar and a NALIP Emerging Content Creator. She performs comedy in LA and has over 10 million views on TikTok. She loves all things comedy, New York, and is a sucker for a good medical drama.