2-Day Writers Retreat in LA |
2022
Get educated & entertained w/ an in-person retreat led by TWO AND A HALF MEN, BIG BANG THEORY Showrunner/EP Lee Aronsohn & TV Developer/EP Jason Kyle
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Catwalk
Private
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
A coming-of-age urban fantasy about two best friends chasing their unlikely dreams in 1990's New York City.
Los Angeles, CA
I'm living an eclectic life that has already included being a celebrity makeup artist, a speech writer for a state governor, a stand-up story teller, and a digital nomad who's visited 18 countries (so far). I've happily escaped Evangelical Christianity. I bring all of this to my writing.
D.I.N.K.S
Private
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
When a DINK (Dual Income, No Kids) influencer becomes an instant foster mom to her 1-year-old niece, she’s forced to confront the real reasons she never wanted children.
Los Angeles, California
Bestselling author. Professional screenwriter. Charismatic storyteller.
From her bestselling relationship books IT'S A BREAKUP, NOT A BREAKDOWN to popular blog series CONFESSIONS OF AN IMPOSTER MOM to podcast WELCOME TO MIDLIFE: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN THE MIDDLE, Lisa’s heart, humor, depth and depravity create a signature style audiences arou...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
GRANT ME THE INSANITY is a 1-hour dramedy about a sober living home – or “sober house” – housing 7 alcoholics and addicts who have transitioned from rehab and jail to a sober living house in West Hollywood, CA to get their lives back on track as they battle addiction, love, life, lies and each other.
It’s “Shameless” meets “Intervention” meets “Fri...
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Los Angeles, CA
I have a background as a documentary TV writer/producer (Nat Geo, Discovery blah blah blah), as well as working as a journalist and drunk... but then I realized I'm too indoorsy and shallow to care about animals and world events and started listening to the "funny" voices in my head and decided to quit that dead-end trend to pursue a career that rea...
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
An agoraphobic teenager winds-up captain of a new JV dance team only to be under the tutelage of a bad choreographer with a cringey taste in music, making being seen...even worse.
Arlington, VA
A high school English teacher told Krista she wasn’t a writer so she avoided writing beyond brief emails until one day, an existential crisis (serious neurological disease) prompted her to ask, “What the f$%k am I doing with my life?” The void hollered, “Write for the screen.” It was through writing shitty scripts that she found fulfillment. Fortun...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
Pilot Episode Logline: After a demure Catholic high school teacher is exposed for having a feces fetish, she attempts to buy a gun off Craigslist to kill herself with, only to end up falling for the seller -- a struggling theme park actor with latent homicidal tendencies.
Los Angeles, CA
Mario Garza is a Mexican filmmaker who writes & directs coming-of-age stories that tackle acceptance and validation in controversial, unexplored worlds inspired by his own nomadic adventures.
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
When the State of Jefferson bans him for being toxic to the movement, relentless shit-stirrer, Jimmy, devises a plan to infiltrate one of their events to launch his own movement.
Los Angeles, CA
Resistant to the molding of his rural, small-town upbringing, Brent embarked on a journey into the world of fiction at a young age by transcribing Disney stories on a typewriter (aka plagiarism). As a teen, while juggling many mischiefs, he lost sight of his earliest pursuits of the craft, but reunited with them in college and never looked back. Bas...
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Nonnie Knows Best
Private
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Middle-aged stoner and grad school dropout Gina Giampetruzzi moves back to her crappy hometown to be her ornery Italian grandma's live-in companion, keeping Nonnie out of the old folk's home and giving Gina new purpose.
Sherman Oaks, CA
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
The adventures of a third-rate physicist, Axel Heidelberg, and his quest for respect in a department eclipsed by his nemesis, the two-timing Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Gary Gargarian. [Pilot Episode: Nobel Gases]
Los Angeles, CA
Jeffrey has won over 100 awards and recognitions in playwriting and screenwriting. He has pitched to Netflix, Barrie Osborne, Mark Johnson, Jordan Horowitz, Chris Kuser, Beth Swofford, Rob Kenneally, and Christopher Lockhart. He has had masterclasses with McKee, Sorkin, Mamet, Swicord, LeFauve, Jack Epps, Jr., Jon Jory, among others. He lives in Los...
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TV Script
· Horror
· 55 Pages
The most popular girl in school discovers that she might be the only one who can save the world from multiple impending apocalypses, but that’s just not fitting into her plans right now.
Phoenix, Arizona
David is an award-winning writer whose work in film, television and as a YA author has been recognized by the Tracking Board, the PAGE International Screenwriting Competition, the Austin Film Festival, Script Pipeline, Screencraft, Final Draft, Roadmap Writers and many other industry platforms.
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TV Script
· Animated
· 23 Pages
In 2420, HBD, a soft-hearted detective, teams up with Tiffany, a sardonic crematory operator who is targeted by the Triad, to take on an organized crime dynasty to solve the murder of his childhood friend.
Studio City, California
Kat was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, which may one day be appropriately renamed, Flavortown. Kat developed a love of storytelling through watching cartoons and reading too many Goosebumps books. Knowing that her heart was in animation, she animated dollar store Barbie dolls for her film school submission. She was accepted into California Insti...
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