Writers/Creators

Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a screenwriter. She is the first female playwright to win the Pulitzer for Drama twice. Her plays have been produced widely in…

Karley Sciortino is a writer, host, and producer based between New York and Los Angeles. In 2007, from her then home of London, Karley founded Slutever, a website that explores sexuality,…

Pamela Adlon is an Emmy®-winning, critically-acclaimed actress, writer, producer, and director with one of the most distinct and celebrated voices across today’s television landscape.   ​

Ryan Murphy is the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning creator, writer, and director of FX’s Emmy-winning original miniseries American Horror Story

Ryan O'Connell is an Emmy®-nominated and Writers Guild Award-winning writer, actor, and producer who co-wrote and stars in Queer as Folk, an inclusive reboot of the iconic series of the same name.

Emmy Award Winner Terence Winter is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire.

Sam Esmail is a creator, executive producer, writer and director of “Mr. Robot,” which has received six Emmy nominations and two wins; five Golden Globe nominations and two wins including…

Beau Willimon is the creator and screenwriter of the award-winning Netflix series House of Cards. Set in Washington DC, House of Cards is described as a “wicked political drama that penetrates the shadowy…

Nia DaCosta is a writer and director from Brooklyn, New York. She has written and directed projects for stage, film and new media platforms. Her debut feature Little Woods, developed through the…

A string of successes as both writer and producer on such series as The Good Wife (CBS, 2009-2016) paved the way for Courtney Kemp to create the highly-rated crime drama Power (Starz, 2014- )…

Nisha Ganatra is a Golden Globe winner and an Emmy nominee for her work as the Director/Producer of Transparent. She is currently in post-production on her film, The High Note, for Focus Features starring Dakota…

Our Lady J is an Emmy nominated writer and producer. In 2019, she began writing on Ryan Murphy's Golden Globe ®-nominated TV series POSE.  

Robert Kirkman is a New York Times best-selling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. Following the grassroots success of the self-published Battle Pope (2000), Kirkman caught the eye…

Suzan-Lori Parks is a multi-award-winning American playwright and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog.  Parks’ adaptation of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess won the…

Mickey Guyton was born in Arlington, Texas, and began singing in church at a young age. She was drawn to a variety of artists with big voices including Dolly Parton,…

Marling can currently be seen in the return of “The OA,” the critically acclaimed Netflix series in which she stars and co-creates alongside director Zal Batmanglij, and also features Kingsley…

Jenji Kohan is the creator and executive producer of Netflix's Orange is the New Black. To date, the critically acclaimed series has earned four Golden Globe nominations, 10 Emmy Award nominations, including…

Katori Hall is a playwright performer from Memphis, TN. Hurt Village won the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a finalist for the Ruby Award. Hall will direct the film adaptation…

Tomos is a London-based writer, performance artist, and filmmaker. While studying English Literature and Drama at the University of Manchester, he co-founded Odds On Productions, working as a producer on the…

Dustin Lance Black is an Academy Award® winning filmmaker, writer, and social activist.  He won the Oscar and two WGA Awards for his screenplay MILK, the biopic of activist Harvey…