Ali Vingiano is a WGA Award-nominated TV writer who wrote on both seasons of The Morning Show (Apple TV+) and is currently developing two TV ideas and a feature for various studios and production companies. She previously produced for The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central), and stars in the feature film THE END OF US, which premiered at SXSW ‘21. As a writer and director, her extensive online video work has received over 1 billion views, won Vimeo Staff Picks, and has been featured everywhere from on the front page of Reddit to NBC’s Today Show. As a journalist, she's contributed writing to Vulture, BuzzFeed, The Hairpin, and more.

Chervine Naamani is a Manager and Producer at ColorCreative. Chervine has built an impressive diverse and multi-cultured list of next generation filmmakers and writers. On the film side, his clients have recently won awards at every major festival including Sundance, Cannes or SXSW and have worked with Neon, New Line, 20th and more. On the TV side, he works with multiple prominent writers writing on hit shows across all genres. Chervine spent the last 4 years as a Literary Manager at RAIN. He had started in management at Thruline, then joined Buchwald where he became the first Literary agent ever promoted at the agency and helped establish their Literary department. The son of political refugees from Iran was born and raised in Paris, France. He is a graduate of the Assas Law School in Paris. Chervine is fluent in English, French and Farsi.

Dan Kavanagh joined Vertigo Entertainment in 2019. Since then, he’s worked to identify projects that have sold to Charter, Sony and Village Roadshow among others, while contributing to the development of shows at every major streamer, including Warhammer at Amazon. Previously, he served as Development & Production Coordinator at AMC Networks’ Shudder and Sundance Now, where he helped launch their reboot of Stephen King and George Romero’s Creepshow, which is now in its fourth season.

David is a Los Angeles native and graduate of San Diego State University where he received a degree in psychology, which has proven to be helpful in this business. After moving back to LA, he worked as a Production Assistant in commercials and indie film before landing at Benderspink in 2012 where he remained as the company transitioned to Good Fear in 2016. On the production side, he’s worked in some capacity on New Line’s WE’RE THE MILLERS, HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 and VACATION, Disney’s MULAN, and A24’s UNDER THE SILVER LAKE. As a manager, he has built a portfolio of film/tv writers, filmmakers, and IP creators. His clients have worked at most of the streaming platforms, networks, and film studios. David strives to develop his clients work and find the best place for their project/talents to thrive, pushing his clients to find the balance between art and commerce, and he is always on the lookout for noisy voices.

Davina is a TV Literary Agent at Verve and previously worked in the lit department at Gersh. Davina has dedicated herself to identifying Black/diverse, Female, and LGBTQ+ voices, building creatives up and helping them tell new stories that will have a positive and lasting impact on the audience.

Josh Marks is a manager/producer at Runyon Media. Prior to founding Runyon Media, Josh was a literary manager with Untitled Entertainment and with Entertainment 360 (LADY BIRD, THE TERROR, THE FALL GUY, BRUISED) before that. He began his career as an agent trainee at UTA (United Talent Agency). In 2023, Josh left Untitled to launch Runyon Media, a new entity dedicated to financing, production and literary management. His clients have showrun and/or written for premium series on major networks and streamers in addition to writing and directing features for major theatrical and streaming studios. Client credits include: SUITS, SNOWPIERCER, ANIMAL KINGDOM, BORAT, THE OTHER TWO, PALM TREES AND POWER LINES, DEPARTURE and more.

Born and raised in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, Lameese came out to Los Angeles five years ago to pursue the entertainment industry. She began as an assistant to Jai Khanna, a former manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, under their finance-production company, Oakhurst Entertainment. Lameese is currently a Junior Manager and Executive Assistant to Robert Lazar at Marathon Management.

Megan Yeargin is an experienced creative producer, who most recently led development for showrunner Brad Falchuk's overall deal at Netflix, encompassing a wide range of genres and formats in film, scripted TV and unscripted TV. Most recently she co-produced the upcoming Netflix series, THE BROTHERS SUN, starring Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh.

RYAN CUNNINGHAM (she/her) is a queer writer/director and Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer. She's EP/Director on the docuseries EXPECTING AMY (HBO Max) about Amy Schumer’s pregnancy, and the standup specials ILANA GLAZER: THE PLANET IS BURNING (Amazon), and CLUB CUMMING PRESENTS A QUEER COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA! (Showtime), hosted by Alan Cumming. Ryan recently completed production on her feature directorial debut, LONE WOLVES, set to release in 2024. In 2023, she also directed Sam Morrison’s critically acclaimed and award-nominated SUGAR DADDY for its extended off-Broadway run at Soho Playhouse in NYC and sold-out run in London at Soho Theatre. She is currently directing a monthly run of the live show SAMANTHA BEE PRESENTS WITS END, a comedy trivia game show with such guests as Eugene Mirman, David Cross, John Hodgman, Phoebe Robinson, Sam Morrison, Dylan Adler, Wyatt Cenac, Martin Urbano, Jon Glaser, and Samantha Bee. Select TV producing credits include BROAD CITY, INSIDE AMY SCHUMER, SEARCH PARTY, THE LAST O.G., and ZIWE.

Ryan Paine is Roadside Attractions’ Director of Development. Paine works across the company’s creative slate in both film and TV, and his role is to identify promising projects, negotiate rights deals and talent deals, develop creative materials, secure production financing, and oversee projects throughout production. Paine most recently executive produced the comedic drama SHORTCOMINGS, which marks actor Randall Park’s feature directorial debut and is based on the same-titled graphic novel by New Yorker cartoonist Adrian Tomine. Paine has a B.A. from Brown University. He was born and raised in Florence, Alabama, and he currently resides in West Hollywood.

Scott Schulman is a Literary Manager who has staffed many writers. One of his clients sold one of their pilots to Netflix in 2022. He also went on to sell 2 more movies that year. He got his start working at Fremantle in business affairs in both scripted and non-scripted television. He then went to A3 Artist Agency for a year as a junior agent in below the line packaging. Scott then pivoted to management and joined More/Medavoy. Scott went off and started Schulman Management in 2018. He began representing actors and then transitioned to signing writers/directors/producers. He currently has a roster of emerging voices and is adamant about breaking the barrier for women by helping get their voices heard. He is currently doing business with 21 Laps, Sugar 23, Phoenix Pictures, Omaha Productions, Harpo, Yoruba Saxon, Megamix, Boatrocker, Mar Vista, CBS and Netflix. Scott served on the Board of Directors for the entertainment organization, HRTS Associates and was also nominated as a Visionary of the Year candidate in 2022 by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). Scott also sits on the Los Angeles Hofstra University alumni chapter which mentors emerging industry talent.

Tyler was recently a Manager of Development at ITV Studios America, ITV Studios’ LA-based independent scripted television operation. Previously, she served as a WPA on a number of productions including SWAMP THING for DC Universe and DEAD TO ME for Netflix. She holds a B.A. in English and Film & New Media from Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and is an alum of the NBCUniversal Page Program.

Najeeb is an experienced producer, literary manager, and content strategist who has over a decade of experience in the industry working his way through various major studios such as 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate before launching his production and literary management company Endless Media. Through Endless Media he has produced several feature films including THE CALM BEYOND (Sony Pictures) and ASSASSIN (Bruce Willis final film) and set up numerous other projects with major companies such as Scott Free and Thunder Road. As a management company, Endless Media’s clients have set up feature and TV projects across various major studios and production companies.

In 2003, Sharlene Martin and created Martin Literary and Media Management. Sharlene has represented some of the top true crime books in publishing and her producing credits include: Executive Producer of Lifetime’s movie THE PREGNANCY PACT, Co- Creator/Producer of the reality series, DEADLY SINS for Discovery ID, Co-EP for EPIC MYSTERIES for Discovery ID, Executive Producer on SECRETS OF A MARINE’S WIFE for Sony Television at Lifetime, and Executive Producer for Apple TV+’s HOME BEFORE DARK, directed and executive produced by Jon M. Chu (Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians), based on her client, Hilde Lysiak, a 14-year-old crime reporter.

Feresten came up through the ranks of television, working first as an intern at NBC in New York. His career took on a Hollywood fable quality when his job as the receptionist for "Saturday Night Live" led him to pass jokes he had written to "Weekend Update's" Dennis Miller. Eventually, Feresten's full-time job at SNL led to a staff-writing position in 1990 at "Late Night with David Letterman," where he wrote for five years and earned five Emmy nominations. In 1995, Feresten left the late-night realm to join the writing staff of the groundbreaking sitcom "Seinfeld," where he wrote for three seasons, becoming supervising producer in 1998. During his "Seinfeld" tenure, Feresten garnered an additional three Emmy nominations, including one for his famed "Soup Nazi" episode, which remains part of the pop-culture vernacular. In 2006 FOX selected Feresten to host his own Late Night series, Talkshow with Spike Feresten which Feresten also executive produced and co-wrote. Several of the show's many viral videos made HULU's all-time most viewed list beating out Family Guy and Tina Fey's Sarah Palin sketches. In addition to "Seinfeld" and "Letterman," Feresten has written and developed other television comedy, penning episodes of The Simpsons, "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" and "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment." Continuing to work with Jerry Seinfeld, Feresten co-wrote the screenplay for the animated feature "Beemovie," and the 2012 Acura NSX Superbowl Commercial. In October 2014 he launched his new cars and comedy show Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten on the Esquire Network. Feresten also co-wrote and produced the 2024 Netflix feature film Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story starring Jerry Seinfeld and hosts one of the top automotive / comedy podcasts in the world, Spike Car Radio.