Writer Experience

Kevin and Matthew McManus are filmmakers and tv writers whose works include The Block Island Sound, American Vandal, Funeral Kings, Cobra Kai, 13 Cameras, and more. They write as a duo and are also brothers.

The Block Island Sound released on Netflix on March 11, which they wrote, directed, and produced.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81354464

https://twitter.com/KMcManusBros

https://twitter.com/mattmcmanusbros

Mason Engel is a writer and filmmaker from Columbus, Indiana. Mason's short film, Amends, earned 3rd place in the Broadcast Education Association Film Festival and was accepted into the prestigious Hollywood Florida Film Festival. Mason is also very passionate about community involvement and has spoken at Hope Elementary School for Read Across America Day and the community Facebook channel, Celebrate Columbus.

Here are some fun facts about Mason.

​He loves sci-fi, fantasy, and anything by Neil Gaiman

He’s a Hufflepuff (and slowly learning to accept that)

He went to Purdue but bleeds Carolina blue

He was a math major (emphasis on "was")

He LOVES independent bookstores

​Mason’s new short film, THE BOOKSTOUR, a 30 minute documentary and the story of his road trip to 50 indie bookstores in 50 days, is releasing in mid July to raise money for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. The Foundation is using 100% of the profits to help indie bookstores recover from the pandemic.

https://www.thebookstourfilm.com

https://twitter.com/theamasonengel

Precious Brady Davis is truly a renaissance woman. You may recognize her name from being the first Trans bride on TLC’s Say Yes to The Dress, but she was trailblazing for years before that: promoting diversity advocacy, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice and more.

An award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker, she currently serves as the associate regional communications director at the Sierra Club. She served for three years as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater, implementing the campus-wide diversity initiative and providing leadership and oversight of national diversity recruitment and inclusion policy initiatives. She also served as the youth outreach coordinator at the Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ community center in the Midwest. During Precious's tenure, she launched a $1.6 million CDC HIV prevention grant, which provided outreach, education, youth programming, and testing services to over three thousand young African American and Latinx gay, bi, and trans youth. Precious is married to Myles Brady and lives in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, where they are raising their daughter, Zayn.

For the first time ever, Precious is telling her story in her own words with the debut of her memoir I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ME which releases TOMORROW, JULY 1st, 2021!

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Always-Been-Me-Memoir/dp/1542044316/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. Her fourth Broadway play premiered on Broadway in 2018, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Other Broadway works include Dead Accounts; Seminar and Mauritius. Other notable NY and regional plays include: Seared (MCC), Downstairs (Primary Stages), The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels (Second Stage), Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout), View of the Dome (NYTW), What We’re Up Against (Women’s Project), Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Prize finalist). As a director, her work has been seen at The Alley Theatre (Houston), the REP Company (Delaware); Dorset Theatre Festival, the Orchard Project and the Folger Theatre. Major film and television projects include Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse (writer and director), “NYPD Blue,” the NBC series “Smash” (creator), and the upcoming female spy thriller 355 (for Jessica Chastain’s production company). As a novelist, Rebeck’s books include Three Girls and Their Brother and I'm Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, a Lilly Award and more.

https://twitter.com/TheresaRebeck

Isabella Mastrodicasa is a producer and a talent manager representing digital storytellers at Heroes and Villains Entertainment.

https://www.instagram.com/isabellamastrodicasa

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.

https://www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/1680571451/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1621627715&sr=8-3

David Boxerbaum is a partner and literary agent at Verve Talent & Literary Agency.

Greg Russo is the screenwriter of the new MORTAL KOMBAT film, which opened Friday, April 23rd, as well as the upcoming films Saints Row, Space Invaders, and Death Note 2. MORTAL KOMBAT recently broke the record for most Red Band trailer views in a week, dethroning Deadpool.

https://twitter.com/WriterRusso

Chris Enss is an author and screenwriter who has written more than 20 books on the subject of women in the Old West, and has collaborated with producer Howard Kazanjian on seven books, including two about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Chris has won 5 Will Rogers Medallion Award, 2 Academy of Western Artists Elmer Kelton Award, and the Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award. Chris has 2 books coming out, the first called Iron Women, about the women who built the railroad, comes out later this year, and an upcoming book with Howard Kazanjian, called the Widow’s Circle, about the Elizabeth Custer, comes out in 2022.

https://twitter.com/4par

Jermaine Johnson and Ari Lubet are managers and producers at 3 Arts Entertainment.