Talent

Angela Harvey launched her writing career by creating an online trans media experience for the pop culture smash Teen Wolf. The success of that online experience earned Angela a Webby Award and a coveted spot in the writers room. After a hundred episodes of Teen Wolf, Angela went on to serve as a writer/producer on Salvation, a sci-fi show for CBS Television, Station 19 on ABC, and American Horror Story for FX. She currently is developing pilots with Berlanti Productions and Bad Robot. Along with her work in entertainment, Angela is a long-time volunteer policy advocate with global anti-poverty agency CARE, and is proud to serve on the Board of Directors for CARE’s political advocacy arm CARE Action. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Writer’s Guild of America’s PAC and as co-chair of the Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (TTIE), a consortium of TV writers dedicated to expanding the voice and reach of under-represented peoples in the entertainment industry.

Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her play MOTHERS premiered Off-Broadway in 2019 at the Playwrights Realm. Her play MAN OF GOD had its world premiere in 2019 at East West Players and will open at the Geffen Playhouse in May 2022. Anna is a Supervising Producer on SEVERANCE (Apple TV+) and is developing shows with HBO, Endeavor Content, and eOne.

Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer and filmmaker from Chicago who was a correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH. Named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch at the 2018 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Jaboukie has performed stand up twice on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and debuted his half-hour comedy special on COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP PRESENTS. Jaboukie’s writing credits include Netflix’s AMERICAN VANDAL and BIG MOUTH. He can be seen in the last season of HBO’s CRASHING, the Sony feature ROUGH NIGHT directed by Lucia Aniello, and the Netflix features SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon and SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Currently, you can see Jaboukie as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. Coming up, you can see Jaboukie in the A24 produced Mike Mills feature C'MON, C'MON opposite Joaquin Phoenix, recurring in the Hulu series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, and recurring in the upcoming HBO Max series RAP SHIT, produced by Issa Rae. Jaboukie also voices the lead role of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon. Jaboukie has over 885k followers on Twitter @jaboukie

Hailing from Oakland, California, Jameal "Jamie" Turner is most recently Executive Producer on CW’s critically acclaimed show, ALL AMERICAN. In 2016, Jamie won an NAACP Image Award for an episode he co-wrote of BEING MARY JANE in the “Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series” category. Jamie staffed on ROSEWOOD in 2015, his previous television experience includes writing for character-driven shows such as PEARSON, UNSOLVED: The Murders Of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G, RED WIDOW, BREAKOUT KINGS AND LIE TO ME. He got his start as an assistant in every aspect (PA, Writers’ Assistant, Assistant to Executive Producers) to finally Script Coordinator on THE SHIELD, where Shawn Ryan and Charles Eglee took him under their wing paving the way for him to eventually be staffed.

Janine Salinas Schoenberg received her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California’s Dramatic Writing Program. As a playwright she has had works developed and/or produced at: Atwater Village Theatre, Playwrights’ Arena, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. She has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Project Involve Fellowship through Film Independent. Janine was a participant in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women where she was awarded the Nancy Malone Award in directing for her short film, JENNY & LALO. She is an alum of the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, the National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters Program, and the Walt Disney Television Writing Program. As a television writer she has written on AMERICAN CRIME (ABC), SNOWFALL (FX), and is currently a Co-Executive Producer on RIVERDALE (CW). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, composer Adam Schoenberg, and their two sons.

Jess Meyer is a Native Angeleno— writing and producing for television. She went to school for Poetry writing and History which she valued for the unique perspective it brings to her storytelling. After graduating college, Jess moved to New York where she assisted Martin Scorsese, which she not only credits for launching her career but provided her a unique film school experience. She has written and produced on multiple series including; Glee, American Vandal, Trinkets and others, Most recently she co-exectutive produced; The Flight Attendant for HBO Max. Jess has won a daytime Emmy for producing and writing Trinkets and was nominated for an Emmy this past year for producing The Flight Attendant.

Kevin Lau is a duel threat Writer and Director with a WGA Award nomination and an overall deal at HBO with two pilots currently in development at the premium cable network. He is a Writer / Producer on the upcoming GAME OF THRONES spinoff, HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, and recently wrapped on season 4 of WESTWORLD. Kev’s also been staffed on the HBO series THE NEVERS, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, and on USA's DAMNATION. An HBO Director Fellow, Lau directed the comedy pilot presentation F**KED UP and sold the half hour dramedy DISCONNECT to FX with Sarah Condon. A Columbia University MFA graduate, Kevin’s stylish thesis drama film MADE IN CHINATOWN was a recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant, SimonSays Entertainment Award for Innovative Filmmaking, and has won multiple awards on the festival circuit, including Best Film, Best Writing, and Best Actor at the NBCUniversal Shortcuts Competition.

LISA MICHELLE PAYTON currently works as a Producer on TRUTH BE TOLD for Apple and is developing a drama with Warner Bros. and Janine Sherman Barrois’s Folding Chair Productions. Previously, she worked as a co-producer on KINGS OF NAPA for WB/OWN. In addition to her work as a writer-producer, Payton is a journalist who is Emmy-nominated for her work in documentary filmmaking. Payton got her start in TV writing through the Warner Bros. Writing program and was sought after to work on several critically acclaimed comedy and drama series. She is represented at CAA and Rain Management Group.

Naomi Iizuka is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and producer.

Her theatre projects include an adaptation of SLEEP by Haruki Murakami, which premiered at the BAM Next Wave Festival and was a New York Times Critics Pick. Her other plays include 36 VIEWS, CONCERNING STRANGE DEVICES FROM THE DISTANT WEST, ANON(YMOUS), and POLAROID STORIES. Her work has been produced at theatres nationwide including Berkeley Rep, the Goodman, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie, and Cornerstone Theater Company, among others. Iizuka was the 2017 Berlind Playwright-in-Residence at Princeton University. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and an Alpert Award. Naomi received her BA from Yale and her MFA from University of California-San Diego. She is Head of the MFA Playwriting Program at University of California-San Diego where she recruited and mentored writers including Vivian Barnes, Dave Harris, Anna Ouyang Moench, Liliana Padilla, Jeff Augustin, and Lauren Yee.

Naomi is currently Co-Executive Producer on THE SYMPATHIZER (HBO). Previously, she was a Supervising Producer on BOSCH: LEGACY (IMDB TV), a Co-Producer on AZUMI (Amazon International), an Executive Story Editor on TOKYO VICE (HBO Max), and a Story Editor on THE TERROR: INFAMY (AMC) which received a WGA award nomination for Best Original Long Form Series. She is developing a series based on the manga The Drifting Classroom with HBO Max, Warner Media, Team Downey, and Bad Robot. She is also developing a limited series with UCP, Littleton Road Productions, and Activist Artist Management about the life and death of missionary John Allen Chau.

Sabrina Jalees is a stand up, writer and actor known for her role in CBS' Carol’s Second Act, her quarter hour Netflix special and Amazon's Transparent. Behind the camera, Sabrina has written and produced on HBO Max's Search Party, Netflix’s Human Resources, Big Mouth, and is currently developing her biographical series Landing with Warner Bros. for Peacock.

Shannon M. Houston is a poet, critic and TV writer.  Her work has been heavily influenced by her strange times, coming of age in Boston, Cleveland and New York.  Houston graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2011, and went on to become a pop culture writer, and TV and film critic.  In 2016 Houston transitioned to the TV world, after selling a pilot to Amazon.  She has since written on Hulu’s THE LOOMING TOWER, Amazon’s HOMECOMING, Hulu’s LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, HBO Max’s STATION ELEVEN, and HBO’s LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.  Her passions include visual art, music, baby-making and Black women up to no good.  She lives in Southern California with her three children and their beloved turtle.

Taofik Kolade is a Nigerian-American Writer/Producer from Washington DC. Taofik is currently under an overall deal with HBO, through which he is developing an original drama series. He is also working as a CoExecutive Producer on THE SYMPATHIZER, Park Chan-Wook's adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. After starting out as a PA on the Fox series EMPIRE, Taofik has worked on the entire run of FX’s hit series ATLANTA, rising from Writers Assistant to Supervising Producer. He has also spent 2 seasons on BARRY at HBO, where he won a WGA Award for his work on the show's critically acclaimed second season.

A Los Angeles native (and actual Valley girl), Tessa Leigh Williams is a writer of television, film, and theater, currently on the CW’s RIVERDALE as a Co-Executive Producer. A writer on the show since its first season, she has written and produced many of the series’ most highly publicized and “special” episodes, including all of the annual musical episodes (see NY Times Best Theater of 2020 and AV Club article). 

Additionally, her pilot THE SHELLEY SOCIETY (co-created and co-written with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and James DeWille) has a pilot production commitment at HBO Max, and her pilot MATCH (co-created with Maggie Burrows) is in development with Warner Bros TV. On the feature side, Tessa is currently adapting the YA novel LAYOVERLAND for Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros, her spec script BONA FIDE PROPHET is under option with Top Dead Center Films, and she is rewriting a musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s NORTHANGER ABBEY for FilmNation Entertainment. Tessa was also Creator, Writer, and Co-Executive Producer of the Snapchat series CLASS OF LIES, for which she won the 2019 Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing in Original Short Form New Media, and which she adapted into a full length drama pilot for Netflix. A graduate of Yale University with a focus on Creative Writing, Tessa’s plays have been produced and workshopped at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, the Blank Theater, and Yale University. Other awards and honors include: three-time O’Neill Theater National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, Stanton Wheeler Award, John Meeker Prize, Norman Mailer Award for Creative Nonfiction semi-finalist, 2016 Staffing Survey honorable mention, and Sundance Screenwriters Lab semi-finalist.

Tessa is repped by agents Olivia Blaustein and Angela Dallas (CAA, television), and Jon Cassir (CAA, film); and lawyer Adam Cooper (Jackoway).