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Roni Geva & Margaret Katch
Screenwriters Lab
2023-2024 Fellow
SHALOM Y'ALL
A half hour comedy tv series inspired by Roni’s family. It’s 1991 and the Ophir family just moved to a small town in Texas from Tel Aviv. Dad Menachem had been a spy for the Israeli Mossad, and mom Chaya, asks him to choose family over country after a particularly scary mission. So Menachem gets a job teaching at Texas A&M University and the whole family, including cool teenage brother Rahm and super-dork 11 year old Noa, moves to Texas. But Chaya doesn’t know that Menachem actually wanted to go to Texas so he could spy on an Iranian physics professor – who is actually a spy for Tehran – to turn him into a double agent. Like, the Americans, but funny.
Roni Geva and Margaret Katch are an award-winning writing team with a focus on bold, female-driven storytelling. Since partnering in 2015, they’ve written four pilots, four features, two short films, and the Emmy-nominated short-form series ctrl alt delete, a workplace comedy set in an abortion clinic. Their work has been selected by 17 film festivals, earned five awards, and led to a development deal at CBS Studios. As actors, their credits span film, television, and stage, including Ovation and Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for their theatrical work. Their greatest desire is to change the world through funny, thoughtful TV and film.
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