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Carter Covington got his start when his first original script Just a Phase was bought and produced by ABC Family. The half-hour single-camera comedy was a memoir of Covington’s life growing up gay in the 80’s in North Carolina, and soon he was on his first set, producing his first pilot, surrounded by actors he cast as his family. This launched his development career, and Covington has since sold multiple comedy and drama projects. Covington’s first series was the TV adaptation of the teen classic 10 Things I Hate About You, which he ran for two seasons and was named by The New York Times as one of the year’s top 10 shows. His next series Faking It was a ground-breaking dramedy that explored the fluidity of sexuality and featured television’s first intersex main character. The series garnered three GLAAD nominations, Teen Choice Award for Breakout Show, and the key to the City of West Hollywood during its three-season run. Covington recently ran the first season of the Charmed reboot on The CW. He’s currently writing a branching-narrative family comedy for Netflix. Other credits include Greek and Hart of Dixie. Covington is an alumnus of the Warner Brothers Comedy Workshop and the WGA Showrunner’s program. He holds a dual degree in Spanish and Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia and an MBA from UCLA. He lives in Los Feliz with his husband Patrick Sean Smith, their son Cormac, and dogs Pepper and Sugar.

Andrew Bluestone

Script: Love Letters
Format: Feature
Logline: Based on a bizarre and scandalous true story, Love Letters tells the tale of a white college professor named Anna Stubblefield and the black family whose lives she turned upside down when she helped teach their disabled son a controversial typing technique known as “facilitated communication” but then took things too far.

john lowe

Script: Stormé
Format: 60-Minute Pilot
Logline: The true story of Stormé DeLarverie, a black and lesbian security guard who protected members of the gay nightlife community from the mafia who owned every Manhattan gay bar in the 1960s. 

KATHERINE RUPPE

Script: Liftoff
Format: 60-Minute Pilot
Logline: Liftoff is a limited drama series that intercuts the propulsive true story of America’s first female astronauts – six intrepid pioneers who blast through the chauvinistic brotherhood of spaceflight in 1978 – with the heartrending aftermath of the Challenger disaster, which claims the life of one of our first women and spurs Sally Ride to join the all-male Rogers Commission, uncovering NASA secrets even as she keeps her own.

emma soren

Script: Virgin Miriam
Format: 30-Minute Pilot
Logline: Virgin Miriam is a comedic reimagining of the Virgin Mary's story, or how a teenage girl 2000 years ago told a lie to survive that spiraled out of control. 

brian stampnitsky

Script: Sh*t Gets Real
Format: 30-Minute Pilot
Logline: After Ben and Emma meet at a pretentious dinner party in hipster Brooklyn, they spend five weeks laughing and smiling and sexing. But their honeymoon phase comes to a sudden end when a major health crisis threatens to tear them apart. Based on a true story... mostly.

SYDNEY MITCHEL (2019)

Mentored by:
Nancy Pimental

• Current Staff Writer on NCIS: New Orleans.

• Showrunner's Assistant on both Cinemax's Outcast and CBS's NCIS: New Orleans.

• Writers' PA on Freeform's Twisted

CHARLIE KELLY (2018)

Mentored by:
David Zuckerman

• Staff Writer on The Cool Kids.

• New Voices winning pilot to Legendary. Currently in development.

• Hired by Warner Bros to write a feature.