Launch Pad Pilot Competition |
2017
Featuring a jury of industry professionals from top companies. The Launch Pad Pilot competition has led to dozens of writers staffed on hit shows for Netflix, CBS, NBC and more.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Overall Winners
DEAD MEN
Private
Overall Winner
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
T.A. Snyder
No bio available.
Top Comedys
Top Comedy
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
The Gloria Steinem of 1620s England gets stuck with the OGs of white privilege--the pilgrims.
Glendale, CA
Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington are two halves of a passport you definitely didn’t forget in your hotel room safe. As the child of a narcissist and mother of two neurodiverse kids (H) and a would-be beauty queen who grew up driving the bull semen route (D), obviously they write comedy. Specifically, they write edgy and sometimes nerdy feminist...
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Top Dramas
Top Drama
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 62 Pages
A misfit radio crew set out across America to report on the sudden plague of pulp sci-fi phenomena sweeping the country. Constantly on the run from censorship in their quest to distinguish fact from fiction, their maverick investigating style makes them as many enemies as it does fans.
New York, NY
Rebecca is a writer-director with an eye for the weird, wry, and wondrous. With a childhood of chronic illness, a family of Jewish hippies, and a degree at Temple University devouring theater, existentialism, and every Quantum Leap episode, she tells stories that explore trauma, transformation, and redemption. She's a two-time Nicholl Fellowship sem...
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Winners
DEAD MEN
Winner
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
THE GOLDEN CAGE
Winner
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
Mentorship Selections
Mentorship Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
When a mentally ill man stabs a senator, a former National Transportation Safety Board employee and current Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami field office are forced to reinvestigate the still unexplained disappearance of an airplane six years previously.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Top 10
DOUBLE EFFECT
Top 10
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
Top 10
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
A brilliant and idealistic law professor, obsessed with bringing down the nation's largest pharmaceutical company, joins the world's first bioethics law division at a top D.C firm, created to take on the country's most controversial cases.
Los Angeles, CA
Jonathan abandoned his Wall Street ambitions to become a writer after his former boss went to prison for insider trading. His thrillers, which explore the flexibility of our moral boundaries when all hope seems lost, have been sold, optioned, and won the Austin Film Festival.
END, THE
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Derek Asaff
No bio available.
GREAT HOUSE, THE
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
MOTHER
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
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SPARKLING DARLINGS
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.
SPARKLING DARLINGS
Top 10
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
STATIC
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Keith Davidson
No bio available.
STATIC
Top 10
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
STUDENT COUNCIL, THE
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Michael Robinson
No bio available.
The End
Private
Top 10
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
A young Nun discovers a secret organization tasked with preventing the end of days in a world where belief in religion means real power.
Derek Asaff
No bio available.
THE GREAT HOUSE
Top 10
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
Top 10
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
Top 25
COLIN & CHLOE VS. THE UNIVERSE
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
DEFAULT
Top 25
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
DEFAULT
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Hannah Dillon
No bio available.
DOWN EAST
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Ryan Bernstein
No bio available.
DOWN EAST
Top 25
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
GOLDEN CAGE, THE
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Oskar Nordmark
No bio available.
I LOVE COLLEGE
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Sarah Lampert
No bio available.
I LOVE COLLEGE
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
LIFE WITHOUT LAURA
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
LIFE WITHOUT LAURA
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Catlan McClelland
No bio available.
Top 25
TV Script
· Adventure
· 62 Pages
An ensemble adventure series set in an alternate 1870s universe where a global catastrophe has rendered the surface of the earth uninhabitable—and the surviving humans live in airship cities in the sky. The story follows the unraveling of this world as war breaks out and order turns to chaos.
Los Angeles, CA
Quinn Spicker is a film writer who grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He is a current fellow of the American Film Institute Screenwriting Conservatory, class of 2026.
LONG LIVE PRIMUS
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
LONG LIVE PRIMUS
Top 25
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
MAMARAZZI
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Loren Tarquinio
No bio available.
MAMARAZZI
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
Top 25
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
SERIES: THE OFFICE meets NORTHERN EXPOSURE. A workplace comedy set in the pathetically real "Mass MoCA" a cutting-edge art museum located in a half-dead town 40 miles from the nearest highway. They built it, and no one came.
PILOT: Ric, the indispensable head of the museum's Fabrication Dept tortures the new Fall interns as he helps the tightly wou...
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Los Angeles, CA
Writer (DC Comics, McSweeney's, TV, Videogames, Anime) / Former Punk-Rock musician / Left-handed Guitarist / Comedian / Improvisor & occasional Actor / Filmmaker / Instigator / WGA
MASS MOCA
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
MAYFIELD PRESBYTERIAN
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
MAYFIELD PRESBYTERIAN
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Preston Walker
No bio available.
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
Based on the comic book of the same name. A mysterious time travel event called the Verge has allowed refugees from the past to settle in New York. Vikings, Samurai, Romans, Mayans, Cavemen and thousands of others, all live in a vast and turbulent melting pot. Connie, an NYPD Detective with a secret past, investigates a serial killer who is targeti...
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Sydney, Nsw, AU
Bryce is a journalist and documentarian with a focus on environmental and human rights themes. He is also the writer of Verge, an acclaimed, best-selling graphic novel.
WAR PAINT
Top 25
Television (One-hour)
No logline available.
WAR PAINT
Private
Top 25
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
An historical musical drama, WAR PAINT chronicles a young lounge singer in 1965 San Francisco’s burgeoning gay underground scene who decides to disguise himself as a female entertainer to find his boyfriend who has gone missing in action in the thick of the Vietnam War.
Los Angeles, CA
A proud LGBTQ writer and Beaverton, Oregon survivor, Tom likes to sneak satire and social commentary into darker comedies and lighter dramas- like blending vegetables into a smoothie so it tastes good but is still sort of good for you.
Top 25
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
Los Angeles, CA
Born in Reno and raised in Atlantic City, Julia Wackenheim received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston. She can be seen in live shows in Los Angeles and on TV. She’s the EP & an actor of the webseries “F’d.” She’s written multiple festival winning scripts. Julia's a WRJ Executive Board Member, a member of Bend the Arc, and the Social ...
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WE'RE GONNA DIE ALONE
Top 25
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
Honorable Mentions
BIG BOY
Private
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
DARKNET PILOT "KILLSWITCH"
Private
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Unknown
· 67 Pages
When his cover is blown, a reformed hacker works with the feds to fight off a cyber terrorist attack by finding a virus designed to force the U.S. to initiate the kill switch, a fail-safe that protects the nation by shutting it down, but no one believes him when he figures out the real threat is activated when the nation’s system restarts.
California
No bio available.
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Comedy
· 66 Pages
When Arden trades her loveless marriage for a fresh start, she stumbles into the world of psychic readings—despite lacking any real powers. Faking her way through clients’ love lives and fortunes, she juggles self-discovery, impending motherhood, and the hilarious chaos of a business where she has a 50/50 shot at being right.
Vancouver And Los Angeles, Bc And Ca, CA
Rachael Biggs is an author and screenwriter who divides her time between Vancouver, and Los Angeles.
Her first book Yearning for Nothings and Nobodies, is a memoir self-published to critical acclaim in 2012. It’s a gritty, darkly comedic, coming-of-age story adapted for the screen as Behind the Eight Ball.
Published in 2023, her short fictio...
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Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Thriller
· 60 Pages
If the Sopranos lived in Ireland, these two families would have wiped them out.
Cork, Munster, IE
Award winning Author and Screenwriter.
Loves to collaborate. It's all about the finished product and making it the best it can be.
FIVE STAR PETE
Private
Honorable Mention
TV Script
· Unknown
No logline available.
No bio available.