WGA East Announces Graduates of 2025 WGAE Showrunner Academy

NEW YORK, NY (January 26, 2026)-The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) is pleased to announce the graduates of the 2025 WGAE Showrunner Academy, a training program designed to support television writer-producers, upper-level writers and new show creators in honing the skills necessary to become successful showrunners and leaders in today’s television industry.

Specific to the unique landscape and needs of the East Coast, the WGAE Showrunner Academy provides invaluable instruction from current showrunners and other industry professionals – from both coasts – on a wide-variety of pertinent topics that are critical to succeeding in the role of a showrunner.

The co-emcees of the 2025 Academy are two experienced showrunners, Diana Son (LAW & ORDER, 13 REASONS WHY) and Laura Eason (HOUSE OF CARDS, THREE WOMEN).

The demographics of this class reflect the Guild’s commitment to supporting a more inclusive television industry, with over half of the class identifying as women and nearly half identifying as people of color.

The Showrunner Academy featured a plethora of experienced showrunners presenting informative workshops and in-depth conversations. The itinerary included:

• “Things to Know Before Running Your First Series” with Meredith Scardino, Patrick Coker and Stu Zicherman;

• “Setting Up Systems to Support a New Show” with Lisa Zwerling and Zoanne Clack;

• “Hiring Writers” with Dan Powell, Abe Sylvia, Beth Schacter and Michael Rauch;

• “Myth Busting in the Writers’ Room” with the Think Tank of Inclusion and Equity (Maha Chehlaoui, Shireen Razack and Aadrita Mukerji);

• “Managing a Comedy/Drama Writers Room” with Robert Carlock, Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zurtisky, Kevin Wade and Gary Lennon;

• “Crisis and Risk Management for Showrunners” by Glen Mazzara;

• “Co-Showrunning” with Tony Phelan;

• “Work/Life Balance as a Showrunner” with Courtney Kemp; Tom Kelly (2 sessions);

• “Onboarding Episodic Directors” with Tessa Blake, Melissa James Gibson and Laura Besley;

• “The Realities of Your Role on Set vs. In the Writers Room” with Jonathan Tropper;

• “The Executive and Showrunner Relationship” with Quan Phung, Carina Sposato, Odetta Watkins and Courtney Saladino;

• “Managing New and Non-Traditional Rooms (Zoom, Hybrid, Bicoastal, Mini, and More)” with Soo Hugh, Daniel Goldfarb and Rene Balcer;

• “The Showrunner and 1st AD Relationship” with Kayse Goodell;

• “Reaching Back as a Showrunner: Supporting Your Support Staff and Making Change” with Sheli Paige Frank and Beau Willimon;

• “Budgeting & Creativity” with John Wells;

• “Working with Line Producers” with Dana Kuznetzkoff and Kristin Bernstein;

• “Post Production” with Shelly Westerman, Cindy Mollo and Hameed Shaukat;

• “VFX” with Cheo Hodari Coker and Whitney Prior;

Meet the class of 2025:

Adrian Dukes was born and raised in Knoxville, TN. A birth for which he openly credits his mother. After graduating boarding school, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and studied English where he done good. Adrian penned and produced numerous comedic shorts including KARATE KLOWN, which was a selection of the 2008 Action on Film Festival and semi-finalist for the American Gem Short Screenplay Competition. Showing a bit of range, Mr. Dukes also wrote the dramatic short film, THREE BLIND MICE, which screened at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and DMV International Film Festival where it won BEST SHORT FILM. Adrian has written for numerous multi-cam sitcoms on Bounce TV and TV One. He was also an executive story editor on season one of BET’s breakout drama, THE QUAD, where he gained meaningful experience on set. Ever the versatile writer, Adrian currently splits time between scripted and unscripted where he’s written & produced a variety of projects including red carpet specials and post-shows for the BET Awards and Soul Train Awards, Love & Hip Hop Reunion specials, gospel music competition Sunday Best, and Black Women Own the Conversation for which he won a 2019 Emmy Award (shameless plug). Adrian has worked on NBC’s prime-time game show, SMALL FORTUNE hosted by Lil Rel Howery, season 2 of HBO Max’s hit series, LEGENDARY and seasons 2 & 3 of Tyler Perry’s ASSISTED LIVING. He recently worked on season 1 of Amazon’s upcoming series, MOTORHEADS. For the past 4 seasons, Adrian has been a writer on the CW’s hit show, ALL AMERICAN where he currently serves as co-executive producer in its 8th and final season.

Allison Davis is an award-winning magazine journalist who has been working at New York magazine since 2013 as a features writer. Davis also has bylines in GQ, California Sunday, the New York Times, Elle, British Vogue, Travel and Leisure, The Economist, and others. In 2020, Davis got the chance to be in the writer’s room for Cord Jefferson’s Apple TV Show, an untitled hour-long drama about journalism and Gawker. She took a leap of faith, took leave from the magazine and was a staff writer in the room, and loved every second of it. Since then, Davis has been balancing her career as a magazine writer with a new career as a TV writer. In the past five years, Davis has staffed in rooms and mini-rooms including: AMC’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE, FX’s FLEISCHMAN IS IN TROUBLE, Hulu’s TELL ME LIES, for which she served as a Supervising Producer. Most recently, Davis was a Co-EP on a Netflix show, SUB, an hour-long drama that sadly did not move into production. Davis is currently writing a half-hour (dark comedic erotic thriller) for Netflix, and has another half-hour up at Sony. While Davis’s career is a bit unorthodox, it just means that what she brings to the room and industry is unique.

Ariel Schrag is a screenwriter, novelist, and cartoonist from Berkeley, California. She is the author of the novel Adam and the graphic memoirs Awkward, Definition, Potential, Likewise, and Part of It. Potential was nominated for an Eisner Award and Likewise was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Schrag adapted Adam into a feature film produced by James Schamus and directed by Rhys Ernst. It premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Film. Schrag has written for television and been a WGAE member since 2005. She began as a Staff Writer for Season Three of THE L WORD and was a Story Editor for Season Four, assisting on set during production in Vancouver. In 2010 she was a Story Editor for Season Two of HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA. In 2016 she was an Executive Story Editor for Season Two of VINYL before the show was cancelled midway through the writers room. In 2019 she was a Producer for Season One of DARE ME and assisted on set during production in Toronto. Schrag has had several pilots in development. In 2012 she developed the original series ROUGH CUT FKA PEEP SHOW with director Ry Russo-Young for Showtime and wrote the pilot. In 2020 she developed the series JUST A GIRL with director Desiree Akhavan based on the movie STAND BY ME and the novella THE BODY by Stephen King for Sony Pictures Television. In 2022 she wrote the pilot THE WRITING CLASS based on the novel of the same name by Jincy Willett for Sony Pictures Television. She is currently co-writing along with writer/director Charlotte Wells the pilot A FAMILY MATTER based on the novel by Claire Lynch for Universal International Studios and Thousand Voices.

Brendan Kyle Cochrane is a filmmaker based in New York and the founder of the production company Digital Seven. He was born in New York and raised in Cambridge, England. He attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan and later studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Cochrane began his film career as a production assistant on A Bronx Tale, followed by work on Carlito’s Way and the television series New York Undercover, and later served as a post-production assistant on Heat. As a director and producer, he has created content for brands including Nike, NFL, Maybelline, and Lincoln Motors, and directed music videos for artists such as 50 Cent, Ludacris, and Teyana Taylor. His film and television credits include the feature EQUAL STANDARD, the indie film 25 SECONDS, and the upcoming series GHOST CARS. He also created the original pilot for THE GRIND, currently available on Amazon.

Chloe Radcliffe, hailing from the Midwest and proud of it, was just named one of Just For Laugh’s 2025 New Faces. Chloe can be seen in Bradley Cooper’s upcoming film, IS THIS THING ON? and she recently led The New York Times’ recommendations for the 2024 New York Comedy Festival. She was named one of Deadline’s 15 Comedians Ready To Break Out In 2025, and one of Vulture’s Comedians You Should And Will Know.
Chloe sold out her full-month run of her one-woman show CHEAT at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with reviews calling it, “Hilarious and sharply-crafted” (Deadline), “Worthy of the greats like Mike Birbiglia” (Chortle), and “A new take on an old topic, with hard-hitting punchlines” (The New York Times). Chloe is currently developing CHEAT for tv. A daredevil cyclist in NYC, Chloe hosts an interview series called In Tandem with Chloe Radcliffe, where she and another comedian ride a tandem bike (slowly!). Chloe starred in Steven Soderbergh’s COMMAND Z, and was nominated for a 2024 WGA award for her writing on the same series. She has been seen on Comedy Central, Don’t Tell Comedy, and After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. She was a staff writer on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON, has a comedy feature in development with Sony, and was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival.

Jorge Aguirre is a TV writer and author. Two-time Emmy nominated, he created, co-developed, and co-produced Disney Junior’s GOLDIE & BEAR. He’s the Head Writer and Co-Executive producer of the PBS Kids/Fred Rogers Production show ALMA’S WAY. He’s written preschool shows for Disney Jr., Nick, Jr., PBS, Amazon, and Netflix. He wrote the graphic novel series The Chronicles Of Claudette (ages 6-10). The New York Times called the first book in the series, Giants Beware, a “rollicking fun story.” He also wrote, CALL ME IGGY (ages 13-18). “A pitch-perfect example of teenage explorations of cultural identity.” (Kirkus, Starred Review). His latest graphic novel series is MONSTER LOCKER (ages 8-13), “With laugh-out-loud humor, rich cultural details, and eye-catching illustration, this series opener will have readers clamoring for the next installment.” (School Library Journal). Jorge calls the great state of New Jersey home.

Kirsten Guenther’s work has resonated across the globe, from Shanghai to Times Square. Her theatrical footprint extends to renowned venues such as Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, The Old Globe, The Pasadena Playhouse, The McCarter Theater, The Paper Mill Playhouse, The Royal Theatre Bath, and most recently, The Other Palace in London. Professional accolades include a Richard Rodgers Award, Rockefeller Grant, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, a Lark Residency, Johnny Mercer Writers Fellowship, and a Lincoln Center Honorarium. Currently immersed in writing for the screen, Kirsten (with Lara Olsen) is shaping an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel, THE SUMMER OF ’69 (Elizabeth Gabler, President of 3000 Pictures, SONY), as well as a reboot of GIDGET (Co-EP), also with 3000 Pictures, and Temple Hill. She recently sold an hour-long romantic comedy series to Netflix (Co-EP / Creator); and was a writer on the 2023 Lionsgate film PUPPY LOVE. Growing up in the care of a single mother, she often spent afternoons under the guidance of a guitarist from her neighborhood – none other than Carlos Santana. This unique “babysitter” exposed her to the diverse sounds of rock, blues, and Latin music. Since then, Kirsten has written many stage musicals including the book and lyrics for Little Miss Fix-it (as seen on NBC); as well as the book for MGM’s Benny & Joon (The Old Globe / Other Palace, London), Paramount’s Roman Holiday, (The Royal Theatre Bath) and Mrs. Sharp starring Jane Krakowski (Richard Rodgers Award). Additionally, she penned a stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman (Disney) with EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Jennifer Vanderbes is a novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter whose work has been translated into sixteen languages. Her books have received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New York Public Library. As a screenwriter, Vanderbes was named a 2022 Athena List Winner for a feature script she wrote for Paramount and was also honored in 2022 by the New York Foundation for the Arts. In addition to developing television projects with HBO, Fox, Lifetime and Bravo, Jennifer is currently in her fourth season writing for NBC’s Law & Order, where she serves as a Producer.

Jenny Turner Hall, Peabody Award Winner, is expanding her career into television and film after becoming one of the most sought after writer/directors in podcasting (Mars Patel, Marvel’s Wastelanders: Wolverine). She has created two original series with Executive Producer Jack Burditt (30 ROCK, MODERN FAMILY, NOBODY WANTS THIS, TED LASSO) and written a feature film for Broadway director Justin Martin (PRIMA FACIE, STRANGER THINGS). With Burditt and her co-writer Rhett Miller, Jenny is currently “Showrunner” for a scripted project in development at ABC (BIG WHEEL).

Madeleine George is a playwright and screenwriter whose plays include The Sore Loser (optioned for Broadway, 2026), Hurricane Diane (Obie Award), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, and Precious Little. Her honors include the Hermitage Major Theater Award, the Princess Grace Award, and a Whiting Award. Madeleine’s audio adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s cult-classic comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” was released by Audible Originals in 2023, starring Jane Lynch, Carrie Brownstein, and Roberta Colindrez. She wrote on FX’s Emmy-nominated limited series DYING FOR SEX, and was a writer/producer on four seasons of Hulu’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated mystery-comedy ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING.

Mamoudou N’Diaye is a Muslim Mauritanian/Malian-American comedian, screenwriter, director, DJ, and educator. He’s been a correspondent for digital media companies, a creative consultant for various social justice nonprofits, and a recipient of two Sundance fellowships, a Film Independent fellowship, and a winner of the inaugural Yes And Laughter Lab. N’Diaye has written for Hulu, NBC/Universal, Lionsgate, Apple TV+, Netflix, and ABC across various formats, with the aspiration to create untethered and free content. Whether it’s layered comedies or self-examining speculative fictions, N’Diaye chases projects that are authentic above all else, dealing in the exchange of intercultural narratives that ultimately allow him to follow his curiosity. N’Diaye is currently staffed on the upcoming NBC comedy THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS, rewriting his comedy heist feature, FREELANCERS, for Lionsgate, pitching other pilots and features, and consulting on a retro-Afrofuturist epic in partnership with Le Boite Dans La Boite and CANAL+ in Paris. He’s an adjunct at NYU in the Department of Dramatic Writing.

Marcus Gardley is an acclaimed TV writer, playwright and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for the reimagining of THE COLOR PURPLE (2023) which won 11 NAACP Awards and the most nominations and wins in history. He won the 2022 WGA award for Best Adapted TV Longform Series for MAID (Netflix). He is the recipient of the 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award. He is a 2019 Obie Award winner for his play THE HOUSE WILL NOT STAND, the 2015 Glickman Award winner, and a finalist for the 2016 and 2015 Kennedy Prize. In TV, he has written for several series, including Boots Riley’s I’M A VIRGO (Amazon), three seasons of the THE CHI (Showtime), FOUNDATION (Apple), NOS4A2 (AMC), TALES OF THE CITY (Netflix), and MINDHUNTER (Netflix). Gardley was born and raised in Oakland, California.

Marissa Lestrade most recently staffed at producer level on Roland Emmerich’s epic THOSE ABOUT TO DIE for Peacock and wrote Episode 8 of the series. Marissa was also the only other writer on JP Delaney’s HBO Max/BBC1 series THE GIRL BEFORE, starring David Oyelowo and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. She wrote on Netflix’s London-set spy thriller TREASON, created by Matt Charman. Previously, Marissa wrote on THE SWARM, an eight-episode environmental thriller based on the bestselling book by Frank Schätzing, for Frank Doelger’s Intaglio Films.  She penned an episode of Chris Dunlop’s WHITE STORK for Netflix and participated in the writers’ room for season two of Endor and FOX’s DEEP STATE.  Marissa currently has an original series in development with Gaumont TV, an original series in development with Double Dutch, an original in development with Joi Productions, has been commissioned to write a studio feature adaptation for Orion Pictures and has a feature film commission with BBC Films.

Marshall Heyman is a television writer and journalist. He has written for shows on Bravo, AMC and Netflix. For nearly seven years, he wrote a daily social column for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he worked at The New Yorker, W and Women’s Wear Daily. He has been a lifestyle and celebrity journalist for over 20 years, contributing to such publications as the New York Times, Vogue, Town and Country and many others. He writes a monthly column about audiobooks for Vulture. He co-created, with director Tommy Kail, a stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book Tiny Beautiful Things.

Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her TV credits include staffing on AMERICAN RUST for Showtime (under Danny Futterman and Adam Rapp) and Alaska Daily for ABC (under Tom McCarthy and Peter Elkoff). She is currently developing her play Work of Devotion, originally a Lincoln Center commission, into a half-hour comedy with A24 and David Bernad’s Middle Child Productions. She is also developing an original series with 5th Season and Beau Willimon’s Westward. Previously, she developed her play the Kind Ones, originally produced at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, as an hour-long procedural with FX and Emmy Rossum’s Composition 8.

Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Flea, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. Monet is an alum of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup, WP Theater Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Watermill Center, MacDowell, Millay Arts, La MaMa Umbria, Stillwright, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Monet was a writer/producer for seasons 21-24 of LAW AND ORDER: SVU. Episodes she co-wrote garnered multiple Imagen Awards nominations (and three wins), honoring positive portrayals of Latinos in media, as well as a nomination for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Teleplay. She is a proud member of The Kilroys, The Dramatist Guild, and WGAE. B.A. Marymount Manhattan College.

Natalia Naman Temesgen is a playwright, TV writer/producer, and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbus State University. Her plays have been produced in Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York City. She has written TV episodes for DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (Netflix), JULIA (Max), and REASONABLE DOUBT (Hulu). Natalia was a 2021 Artist in Residence and recipient of the Film Focus Fellowship at Serenbe Institute. She received the American Playwriting Foundation’s 2019 Relentless Award honorable mention for Lawnpeople, a political drama dealing with immigration, identity, and motherhood. Her play for young audiences, Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story, had a 2025 Regional Premiere production at Prime Stage Theatre in Pittsburgh.

Olen Steinhauer, originally a novelist, wrote the feature adaptation for my novel All The Old Knives before creating the TV show BERLIN STATION, for which Steinhauer was co-showrunner for the first season. Steinhauer co-wrote the feature INHERITANCE with director Neil Burger, which came out in 2025. Steinhauer spent most of the last three years writing some features with his production partners and developing a TV show with SISTER productions in London, in collaboration with SKY. Steinhauer is presently developing three other shows.

Patricia Ione Lloyd was most recently a Supervising Producer on EVIL at CBS. Before that, she was a Co-Producer on Lena Waithe’s BET series TWENTIES. Her play, Eve’s Song, premiered at The Public Theater in NY. She has developed at F/X and CBS All Access. Previously, Ione was a member of the Emerging Writers Group, a two-year playwriting residency with the Public Theatre where her play Pretty Hunger was given a Lab production. She was a Sundance resident playwright at their theater lab in Morocco, and a New York Theater Workshop fellow. Ione was a resident playwright at the University of Mumbai, Brown University (through the Africana Studies Department/Rites and Reasons Theatre) and the International Theatre and Literacy Project in Tanzania. Ione is passionate about character driven work that is entertaining and brings people together despite our differences.

Poppy Damon is an Australian-British screenwriter and journalist based in NYC. Her TV pilot THE VULTURES was recently optioned by Two Brothers Pictures (FLEABAG) and her TV Series NUMB by A & E Studios (UNREAL, YOU). Her short film THIEF is her directorial debut and is currently under consideration at a number of major festivals. Poppy won her place on the 2021 Brit List for her gripping and stylish gangster thriller feature titled: LET’S GO GET YOUR F**KING DOG BACK. The latter is now in development with Joi Productions in the UK. Her recent writing TV credits include KAREN PIRIE (ITV). Formerly the executive producer of The Times and The Sunday Times’s daily news podcast, Poppy has reported from El Salvador, Costa Rica and the USA. Whilst at The Times, Poppy worked with veteran war reporter Anthony Loyd as the producer of THE LAST MAN STANDING– an investigation into the kidnap of journalist John Cantlie in Syria. Whilst at the BBC Poppy worked as a producer and reporter for Radio 4 news programmes. Her two most recent podcast series for Audible were about a real 1920s crime that inspired Agatha Christie and the true story behind The Great Gatsby. She has also worked for The Guardian, Spotify, CBC and many more.

Rhett Miller is a revered and award-winning singer-songwriter known for his more than three decades fronting the popular rock band Old 97’s. In addition to his songwriting, Miller has branched out to write fiction and nonfiction. He has authored short stories, essays and articles that have been featured in Rolling Stone, Bookforum, Sports Illustrated, McSweeny’s, The Atlantic and Salon. He has also published two children’s books via Little Brown Young Readers. Rhett’s podcast, Wheels Off: Conversations about Creativity, which just hit 200 episodes, features well-known guests from all areas of the arts. Rhett has appeared in films, most recently GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL, in which he performs a song he cowrote with director James Gunn. His songs have been used in countless movies, television shows and commercials.

Rinne B. Groff got her staff-writing start on the 2nd season of Showtime’s WEEDS. She was story-editor for Apple TV’s CHARMING SALLY and served as co-producer and then producer for AMC’s GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK. Her plays and musicals, including Your Lie in April (West End premier), The Woman’s Party (2021 New York Times Critic’s Pick), The Red Beads, Fire in Dreamland, 77%, Comfort Inn, Compulsion, The Ruby Sunrise (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Saved (Lucille Lortel nomination and Broadway.com Audience Award), Jimmy Carter was a Democrat, Molière Impromptu, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, What Then, Inky, Seven Supermans, and The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem, have been produced in commercial house and by the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Rep, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Women’s Project, PS122, Target Margin, and Clubbed Thumb Theater, among others in the United States, and internationally. She is a founding member of the award-winning devised theater company Elevator Repair Service. Rinne is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Obie Award grant, the Whiting Writers Award, and two NYSCA Individual Artist grants. B.A. from Yale College and M.F.A from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Dramatic Writing, where she is currently an Associate Arts Professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate writing courses in all dramatic mediums.

Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer (THE NEUTRAL GROUND), and WGA nominated writer (COMMAND Z). Roy’s fourth stand-up special, LONELY FLOWERS, premiered on Hulu in January 2025 and he is currently the host of CNN’s HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, an American adaptation of a long-running UK comedy series, which premiered in 2024 and returns for a third season in Fall 2025. Wood Jr. will soon appear alongside Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill in the upcoming comedy OUTCOME and will next be seen in the Sundance film LOVE, BROOKLYN. He currently has a sitcom in development with FOX about the National Guard. Roy served for 8 years as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning THE DAILY SHOW (2015-2023). In 2023, Wood Jr. guest hosted THE DAILY SHOW and headlined the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017. Wood Jr. co-starred alongside Jon Hamm in Paramount Pictures’ long-awaited Fletch remake, CONFESS, FLETCH (2022), and has guest appearances in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, BETTER CALL SAUL, and LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER.

Seth Savoy is a Cajun filmmaker and screenwriter Seth Savoy is catapulting himself into the entertainment industry, quickly becoming known for his flashy filmmaking style with heavy hitting A-list talent. Savoy made his feature film debut with the upcoming crime drama ECHO BOOMERS (Saban Films/Paramount). The film stars two-time Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (KNIVES OUT) and Alex Pettyfer (I AM NUMBER FOUR), follows indebted college graduate Lance Zutterland (Patrick Schwarzenegger) who is pulled into an underground operation in Chicago in which his peers fight the system by stealing from the rich. Led by Mel Donnelly (Shannon), the group leave behind a trail of destruction before Lance realizes he is in over his head with no way out. Set in 2013, Savoy was inspired to pen the script after local headlines of similar break-ins in the Chicago area surfaced. He eventually took the script to Sundance Film Festival in 2015, where he won an independent pitch competition and captured the industry’s attention. ECHO BOOMERS released in select theaters, on-demand, and digital on November 13, 2020 which Richard Roeper calling Savoy a fresh directing voice with real talent infusing kinetic flash into everything he touches. His Series, The Merc, is in development at the BBC starting in Feb. of 2025.

Sonejuhi Sinha is a filmmaker working in both TV and film. She’s currently developing an original TV series at Universal with Sam Esmail and Two & Two producing. She also developed her feature STRAY DOLLS as a TV series, with Nicky Weinstock producing and Sarita Choudhury starring and set it up at HBOmax. Sonejuhi’s debut feature STRAY DOLLS, a crime thriller / drama starring Cynthia Nixon, Rob Aramayo, Olivia Dejonge and Geetanjali Thapa, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019, winning a Special Jury Mention for Lead Performance and TFI’S IWC award. Before that, Sonejuhi’s narrative short film, LOVE COMES LATER, played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Sonejuhi began her career as a film editor, where she worked alongside acclaimed directors such as Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze and Bassam Tariq. She edited two award-winning feature-length documentaries, THESE BIRDS WALK and HOMEGOINGS, that played at several festivals, including SXSW, Full Frame and True/False, and garnered several international awards. Sonejuhi is a 2025 Sundance Fellow and one of Indiewire’s 25 Rising Filmmakers to Know.