Alexandra Cunningham is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of “Fatal Attraction,” which stars Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan and airs on Paramount +. Before that Cunningham most recently served as creator, showrunner, and executive producer of “Dirty John,” based on the hit LA Times podcast, which starred Connie Britton, Eric Bana, Juno Temple, Julia Garner, and Jean Smart and aired on Bravo and Netflix. Season two, “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story,” starred Amanda Peet and Christian Slater and aired on USA and Netflix.

Cunningham has written and produced such shows as “Desperate Housewives”,  HBO's “Rome”, the American remake of “Prime Suspect”,  “Bates Motel”, “Aquarius”, “Chance” on Hulu, and “Physical”, which is about to air its 3rd season on Apple TV+. She graduated from Johns Hopkins and Columbia and was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School.

Adam Higgs is a diverse writer currently on strike. Most recently, he was an Executive Producer on both the Netflix action comedy FUBAR starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the smash hit Amazon series REACHER. Previously, Higgs worked as a Co-EP and #2 on the CW series LEGACIES and the ABC series WHISKEY CAVALIER. Previous development includes the adaptation of the popular podcast THE ADVENTURE ZONE with Peacock. Other credits include CBS's SCORPION, Syfy’s HAVEN, and CBC’s REPUBLIC OF DOYLE.

Michelle Denise Jackson is a WGA Award-winning writer, producer, and storyteller whose stories center and celebrate people from marginalized communities doing the messy work of becoming their whole and free selves. Since 2019, she has written on some of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows of the Peak TV boom: GENERATION (HBO Max), PIECES OF HER (Netflix), WGA Award-winning limited series MAID (Netflix), NAACP-award winning drama series QUEEN SUGAR (OWN), and Apple TV’s flagship drama THE MORNING SHOW. She holds an MFA in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. In addition to working in writers’ rooms, Michelle has developed TV projects with Anonymous Content, Bad Robot, BuzzFeed Studios, Netflix, and HBO. She also serves as adjunct faculty in USC’s John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television.

Geetika Lizardi majored in English at Stanford and dreamed of being a writer, but due to her intense commitment to being a "good Indian daughter," she received an MBA instead and was recruited by Microsoft. She surprised her colleagues when she left a successful career and stock options to pursue her passion for screenwriting. Her first feature was optioned and adapted for musical theater in the UK. Her first TV spec landed her a staff writing job on the NBC comedy, OUTSOURCED. Geetika most recently wrote on Seasons 2 & 3 of the Netflix/Shondaland smash hit, BRIDGERTON.

On the development side, Geetika is pitching an original series with Universal TV and Keshet Studios, writing a feature for Film4 (UK) based on the hit novel, EROTIC STORIES FOR PUNJABI WIDOWS, and adapting a novel for Lilly Singh's Unicorn Island Productions. Geetika is a two-time winner of the WGA Writers Access Project, the only writer ever to win in both Comedy and Drama. She writes character-driven stories with heart, humor and substance.

Laura Marks is a PEN award-winning playwright, television writer, and comic book writer. She’s written episodes of Servant, Let the Right One In, The Good Fight, The Expanse, Ray Donovan, The Exorcist, and BrainDead, in addition to various projects in development. Her plays Bethany and Mine have garnered acclaim from critics and have been published and produced across the US and overseas. Her debut graphic novel, Daphne Byrne (with art by Kelley Jones), was published by DC Comics under Joe Hill’s horror imprint, Hill House Comics. She’s a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program, an alumna of New Dramatists and the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, and a native of Kentucky, now living in New York.

Max Mayer is a Founder and Producing Director of New York Stage And Film. His film Adam featuring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Award and was distributed by Fox Searchlight. As Cool As I Am starring Claire Danes, James Marsden and Sarah Bolger was produced by Wind Dancer and Identity Films and was distributed by IFC Films in 2013.  His first feature film, Better Living starring Roy Scheider, Olympia Dukakis and Edward Hermann opened theatrically in New York and Los Angeles in 2000.  Max has written screenplays: Adam,  The Great Day, The Affix, Present Tense, The Doorman,  co-wrote Runaway Lake with Sadik Grice and Intersection with Catherine Corpeny, and theatrical plays: The Sleeping Hippo, produced off-Broadway in 1997, Hand To Hand, produced by New York Stage and Film in 1994, and James And The Handless Maiden, produced in Los Angeles in 2002. For television, Max directed Episodes of NBC’s “The West Wing”, ABC’s “Alias” and was Associate Producer of CBS’s “Family Law” where he directed three episodes. Currently, Max is in development with two independent films, The Inn Between, co-written with Terry Walters, and Patriot Acts by Willy Holtzman. In a 25+ year career as a theatre director, Max has directed World or New York premieres of plays by John Patrick Shanley, Eric Overmyer, George F. Walker, Lee Blessing, Alexandra Gersten, Harry Kondoleon, Nicole Burdette, Richard Nelson, Quincy Long and Joanna Murray-Smith, with actors such as David Strathairn, Ethan Hawke, Frances MacDormand, Julianne Moore, John Spencer, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Jane Kaczmarek, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary MacDonnell, Kyra Sedgwick, John Mahoney and Patricia Wettig at theatres such as Steppenwolf, WPA, Second Stage, Atlantic, Malaparte, Long Wharf, Manhattan Class, Ensemble Studio and the Arena Stage where his productions have won multiple Best Production and Best Director Helen Hayes Awards. World premiere plays include: Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake (Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Award nominations for solo performer, Mark Linn-Baker), Supple In Combat by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, and George F. Walker’s Escape From Happiness among many others.. Max has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Acting from NYU. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, documentary director, Rebecca Carpenter, daughter, Jude and step-daughter, Annika.

Janine Nabers is an Emmy nominated tv writer and is in an overall deal at Amazon Studios. She has been named one of Adweek’s Creative 100 in 2023. Most recently, SWARM, the culturally buzzy series she co-created and Executive Produced with Donald Glover debuted on the streamer. She is developing a series with Prentice Penny at HBO, executive producing QUILLS with Rob Williams and Javier Bardem at Searchlight, developing SYD at Annapurna as well as a project with Lucky Chap at Amazon. Janine was a Co-Executive Producer writing on seasons 3 and 4 of ATLANTA on FX. Other credits include HBO's WATCHMEN for which she won a WGA Award, Co-Executive Producer on AWAY for Netflix, and Marti Noxon’s DIETLAND for AMC, UNREAL for Lifetime, and all five seasons of GIRLFRIEND’S GUIDE TO DIVORCE at Bravo. Janine won the Yale Drama Series prize from over 1,600 entries from around the world for her play SERIAL BLACK FACE. A native of Houston, Texas, Janine is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard.

Charlie Stratton wrote and directed the feature film IN SECRET starring Jessica Lange, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, and Tom Felton. The film was released by Roadside Attractions and Sony Pictures International and premiered as an Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. His current writing credits include SNOW MEN for Elevation, SOVEREIGN with WonderHill Studios which he is also directing, and GIOVANNI’S ROOM which he adapted from the James Baldwin novel with Lee Daniels directing.

Additional screenwriting credits include SEACOLE, which he also
directed, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Worthington, Sylvia Hoeks, and Rupert Graves, based on the life of Mary Seacole; DOCTOR AT WAR for Palmstar Films based on Eugene
Lazowsky’s heroic effects during World War II; HOPE’S WISH based on twelve-year-old Hope Stout’s remarkable Make-AWish story, and THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE for director Mike Figgis. 

Stratton has directed and produced a variety of television shows as well as developed pilots for Freeform, ABCFamily, Gaumont, and Condé Nast Entertainment. He has been a writer and director mentor for New York Stage & Film, Cinestory, and Sundance. 

Leslie Urdang is President of Mar-Key Pictures, a producer of film, theater
and television and a Founder and Producing Director of New York Stage
and Film Company.

Her feature films include “Beginners”, (Academy, Golden Globe, SAG, and
BAFTA Awards for Christopher Plummer, Gotham Award winner for Best
Picture) “Rabbit Hole” (Academy and Golden Globe nomination for Nicole
Kidman) “The Seagull” starring Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey
Stoll, Jon Tenney and Elisabeth Moss, (2019 Women’s Image Network
Award), John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme” starring Emily
Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm and Christopher Walken, “A Midsummer
Night1s Dream”, starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci,
Christian Bale, Calista Flockhart and Dominic West, “The Oranges”
starring Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney and Oliver Platt, “Thanks for
Sharing” starring Mark Ruffalo and Josh Gad, “The Family Fang” starring
Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman, “Adam”, starring Hugh Dancy and
Rose Byrne, “Game Six” starring Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr and
Griffin Dunne, “Twelve and Holding” starring Jeremy Renner, “The Great
New Wonderful” starring Tony Shalhoub, Stephen Colbert, Olympia
Dukakis, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Narrows” starring Vincent
D’Onofrio, “Me and Veronica” starring Elizabeth McGovern and Patti
Wettig and “People I Know” starring Al Pacino.

Her current projects are a television series for MGM+ called “American
Classic” written by Bob Martin and Michael Hoffman and starring Kevin
Kline and Jon Tenney and the feature “Counting by 7s” starring Josh Gad.
Leslie has worked as a producer for Robert Redford’s company, Wildwood
Enterprises, Universal Pictures, Fox Searchlight and Fox 2000.

She is a Founder and Producing Director of New York Stage and Film,
which has developed and produced hundreds of new plays and musicals
including the earliest workshops of the musical “Hamilton”. Leslie created
“The Film and Television Workshop” program at New York Stage and film.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked in Washington
D.C. before going to the Yale School of Drama’s MFA program. Urdang’s
very formative experiences were her years spent studying dance at the
School of American Ballet and performing with George Balanchine’s New
York City Ballet. Urdang currently resides in LA with her husband actor/
director Jon Tenney.

Ray Utarnachitt was most recently a writer and executive producer on DC’S
LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. He is a Michigan native and like any good Asian
student, was pre-med at the University of Michigan for 3 years. Much to his
parents’ dismay, he switched tracks and graduated with a Film degree. Ray broke
into the business working in production on commercials, music videos, and
features. He has also written for PERSON OF INTEREST, THE TOMORROW
PEOPLE, THE FLASH, and SUPERGIRL. He is an alumnus of the Warner Bros.
Writers Workshop.

Matt Williams is best known as the creator and executive producer of the hit series Roseanne and the co-creator and executive producer of Home Improvement, one of the most successful programs in television history. Williams joined The Cosby Show during its premiere season and worked as a writer/producer on the show for three subsequent seasons, during which time his work was honored with Emmy and Humanitas nominations, as well as sharing a Peabody Award for outstanding achievement in television writing. He also served as co-creator of the Cosby spin-off, A Different World.

In 1989, Williams formed Wind Dancer Production Group with principals Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. Under the Wind Dancer banner, Williams co-created and executive produced Home Improvement, Carol & Company, starring Carol Burnette, Buddies with Dave Chappelle, Thunder Alley, Soul Man and Costello. Once again, his work received Emmy and Humanitas nominations, as well as winning numerous People's Choice Awards. He is the executive producer of the hit animated series for PBS Ready, Jet, Go!

In film, Williams produced and directed Where The Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd. He produced Nancy Meyer's romantic comedy What Women Want; executive produced the critically acclaimed drama Firelight with Sophie Marceau and served as co-writer and producer of Disney's award-winning Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Williams co-wrote, produced, and directed Walker Payne, and produced Bernie, The Keeping Room and As Cool As I am.