ABOUT THE WRITERSSara Bibel co-created the campus soap opera IVORY TOWER while a student at Harvard. She immediately realized that television was a lot more fun than academia and adjusted both her professional aspirations and her GPA accordingly. She was a staff writer on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS, winning a Daytime Emmy and two WGA awards. She now hopes to conquer primetime. Fox optioned her drama pilot, HIGHER POWER, through its Diversity Writers Initiative. She also writes about television for Comcast's website Fancast. Given that her last two pilots dealt with the hot button issues of religion and immigration, she is considering writing a script about puppies and rainbows. e: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it | p: 310-487-3992 Jamie Mayer is a feature writer who has noticed that the writing on TV these days is pretty damn good and wants in. She has sold material to and worked on feature projects for Fox and Lionsgate, among others. Her comedy script CROWBAR SMILE recently won first prize in the Hollywood Nexus screenplay contest. She workshopped her dramatic script PAINLESS in the Sundance Writers’ and Directors’ Labs and is working towards making it her feature directorial debut. Jamie’s other pilot script, TOMORROWLAND, is currently a finalist and a semi-finalist, respectively, in the Slamdance and Page Awards pilot competitions. Cross your fingers. e: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it | p: 310-508-2672 Alison McKenzie wrote her first screenplay as a diversion from working on law school applications. That script, A CHILD’S STORY, earned her entrance into Columbia University’s graduate film program. She then won the Milos Forman Screenwriting Prize and was accepted into the Cosby Fellowship Program. The seed for her pilot idea came from observing her older sister’s experiences in the Nation of Islam. With 9/11 and the election of President Obama revealing extremism on all sides, she is ever more intrigued by the idea that “one man’s religion is another man’s cult” and “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” finding it a rich vein for creative exploration. e: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it | p: 323-404-6243 Loni Steele Sosthand wrote a novel for her senior thesis at Harvard. She later went on to graduate school at UC Irvine, where she continued her studies in creative writing. Recently, she and her brother co-wrote and co-produced a pilot, KATRINA, for The-N with established producer Warrington Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang). Loni’s mother is Jewish and her father is black, and she has long been drawn to interracial themes in her writing. The idea for her current spec pilot, ALL MIXED UP, came to life when she met her father-in-law, a self-described Cajun cowboy. She wanted to explore what would have happened if he could have hung out with her maternal grandfather, who was a Holocaust survivor. The humor and pathos of imagining that cultural collision inspired this pilot. e: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it | p: 310-866-6093 ABOUT THE DIRECTORNick Weiss directed the 2008 teen comedy SENIOR SKIP DAY - which debuted on Comedy Central and starred Tara Reid, Lea Thompson, and Norm MacDonald. He has also directed a string of successful shorts. Nick just finished a zombie stoner screenplay called, BONG OF BLOOD and is shooting a music video next month. |