Joseph Sloman
Joseph has been a WGA member since 2017 and has sold several television series to major studios. He currently has a limited series in development with Skydance Sports. In addition to television, he works in politics, most recently writing ads for U.S. Senate races in multiple battleground states.
Jon Steinfield
Jon’s a feature screenwriter who’s sold to Netflix and has had other projects optioned by and in development at Range, A/Vantage, Temple Hill and Jadis. When he’s not writing, he loves spending time with his wife and three kids – camping, traveling or playing endless baseball together.
Dannah Shinder
Dannah Shinder is a writer, producer, and former studio executive whose producing credits include Shrill, You, The Flight Attendant, and Dead Boy Detectives. Prior to writing her own material, she held development executive positions for Animal Pictures, Berlanti Productions, Brownstone Productions, and Sony Pictures Television. Dannah has worked in both New York and Los Angeles since her career began in the William Morris Agency mailroom after earning a degree in Radio/Television/Film and English literature from Northwestern University.
Ariel Sayegh
Ariel Sayegh writes about control freaks who’ve lost all control and the chaotic relationship between public perception and self-worth. A grand prize winner of Script Pipeline and the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, her work has been spotlighted on the Annual Black List and in W, VICE, Dazed, and PAPER Magazine. Ariel was the first student ever admitted to both the Screenwriting and Production programs at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she received a full-tuition Trustee Scholarship, the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, and the Marguerite Roberts Screenwriting Award.
Raanan Hershberg
Raanan Hershberg is a writer/director and nationally touring stand up comedian. He has performed stand up on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late, Late Show with James Corden, After Midnight and Comics Unleashed on CBS, and Comedy Central. His third special ‘Jokes from the Underground’ was included in the New York Times ‘Best Comedy of 2022’, where critic Jason Zinoman awarded it ‘Funniest YouTube Special of The Year’. He is also the co-writer and co-director of Memory Room, a psychological thriller that won the Grand Prize at The 2025 New York Shorts International Film Festival, and has amassed close to half a million views on YouTube since its release four months ago.
Ari Frenkel
Ari Frenkel is an award-winning actor, writer, and filmmaker. Maybe you saw him on Amazon’s “I’m A Virgo” or FX’s “American Crime Story” or HBO’s “Silicon Valley” or “Sorry, Ari,” his comedy digital series which he writes and stars in. “Sorry, Ari” was named one of the Best Web Series by IndieWire, Best of the Web by Funny or Die, and has accumulated over 25 million views.
Other credits include “No Hard Feelings,” “Homecoming,” “Transparent,” “Truth Be Told,” “All Rise”, “There’s Johnny!”, “Rizzoli & Isles,” and more.
He is currently in production for his debut feature film “See You on the Other Side,” which he is writing, directing and starring in alongside Judy Gold, Ella Stiller and Richard Masur.
Ingrid Haas
Ingrid Haas is a filmmaker, writer, actor, and producer based in Los Angeles. Her films have screened at SXSW, Sundance, and Fantasia, including Still Wylde, The Pink, and PUSH, a PSA about stillbirth. As a writer, her work has appeared on Netflix/CBC’s Workin’ Moms, Vice, and the Wondery podcast The Moment. She is also the creator of The Messy Middle on Substack, where she writes about the indignities of being alive. A Canadian Comedy Award winner, her favorite roles to date are being a mother IRL and playing a Heinz mustard bottle in a national commercial. Newly minted US citizen but Canada will always be home.
Matt Sadowski
Matt Sadowski is a Toronto-based screenwriter, actor and playwright whose writing alternates between the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. His work includes the award-winning feature Pretend We’re Kissing, the John Hughes documentary Don’t You Forget About Me, his one-man show Welcome to Splitsville, and the novelette Last Shot at Love. He also holds the distinction of playing the first canonically Jewish Power Ranger.
Kari Pickering & Ronit Gilbert-Aranoff
Kari and Ronit are writers, actors, and creators who write female-driven buddy comedies with Asian and Jewish leads… like them! With 15 years of writing experience, and seven years together, Kari and Ronit specialize in strong characters, punchy dialogue, and clear storytelling. Their scripts pass the Bechdel Test with flying colors. So much so that they once received the note, “Maybe you should add a man to this piece.” They met at the Upright Citizens Brigade, where they studied advanced improv and sketch, and decided to write together after watching one another perform original pieces. Kari studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and received her BFA from The New School. Ronit is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Kari and Ronit owe their writing success to their kids’ preschools.
Cole Quirk
Cole Quirk is a writer-director known for legal/crime dramas and quirky comedies. With a BS from Penn State and an MFA from UCLA, she has worked in television writers’ rooms for over a decade, including as a staff writer on Justified: City Primeval (FX), and sold a feature to the Hallmark Channel. An active member of the Television Academy and Alliance of Women Directors, her upcoming dark comedy short film Lions & Meerkats, featuring Nicole Sullivan, is slated to premiere in 2027.