Script Magazine Editors - Creating Characters A-List Actors Want to Play

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman: Jeanne is the editor and online community manager of Script Magazine and a webinar instructor for The Writers Store. She is co-founder and moderator of the weekly Twitter screenwriters chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prizewinning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. Jeanne also is president of Implicit Productions and consults with writers on how to build and strengthen their online and offline networks as well as face their fears in order to succeed in writing and in personal peace. More information can be found on her blog, ramblings of a recovered insecureaholic .

Jerry Flattum: Performer/songwriter and writer. JerryFlattum.com - Original songs and production music; GlobalEntertainmentInThe21stCentury.com e-book covering the convergence of global entertainment and technology redefining the question, What is entertainment? Pursuing second masters degree in music production for visual media (masters liberal studies; bachelor of science degree in songwriting). Scripts: Watertown, South Dakota (young filmmaker makes an Indie film headed for the Oscars); Celestial Age, a sci-fi action/adventure about the LHC, time travel, the God Particle, and the futuristic Celestial Age.

Heather Hale: Heather is an independent producer, director, and writer, one of a few approved for NBC Universal's special development fund managed by IFTA. Her most recent thriller, Absolute Killers (W, D, P: Meatloaf Aday, Ed Asner, Edward Furlong), was available at Walmarts and Best Buys across the country in 2014. Her other credits include The Courage to Love (W, Lifetime: Vanessa Williams, Diahann Carroll, Stacey Keach, Gil Bellows). Her projects have won Emmys, Tellys and Ace Awards. Tim McGraw has twice optioned one of her true-life biopics, and Tim Conway is attached to one of her comedies. She was the vice president and director of event programming for NATPE (2004 and 2005 and for whom she still serves as a pitch prep consultant) and the industry coordinator for the Independent Film and Television Alliance for the 2013 American Film Market. She is a member of the TV Academy and Show Biz Mensans and is writing a book for Focal Press on How to Work the Film and TV Markets due out June 2015.

Marilyn Horowitz: Marilyn is an award-winning New York University professor, author, producer, and Manhattan-based writing consultant, who works with successful novelists, produced screenwriters, and award-winning filmmakers. She has a passion for helping novices get started. Since 1998 she has taught thousands of aspiring screenwriters to complete a feature-length screenplay using her method. She is also a judge for the Fulbright Scholarship Program for film and media students. In 2004 she received the coveted New York University Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Horowitz has written several feature-length screenplays. Her production credits include the feature film And Then Came Love (2007).

Brad Johnson: Brad Johnson is a screenwriter and producer whose website, ReadWatchWrite.com , is devoted to helping screenwriters by promoting the mantra Read scripts, watch movies, and write pages. Brad also works as a script consultant and has worked with writers of all levels to develop and grow their screenwriting toolbox.

Jacob Krueger: The founder of Jacob Krueger Studio, Jacob has worked with all kinds of writers, from Academy and Tony award winners to young writers picking up the pen for the first time. His writing includes The Matthew Shepard Story, for which he won the Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award and was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Screenplay. To follow Jacobs blog or learn more about his screenwriting workshops, online classes, and international retreats, please visit WriteYourScreenplay.com .

Daniel Manus: Danny is an in-demand script consultant and founder of No BullScript Consulting, and was ranked in the Top 15 Cream of the Crop Script Consultants by Creative Screenwriting Magazine. He is the author of No B.S. for Screenwriters: Advice from the Executive Perspective. He was the director of development for Clifford Werber Productions (Cinderella Story, Sydney White), a development consultant for Eclectic Pictures, and the DOD at Sandstorm Films, which had a first-look deal at Screen Gems and a development deal with Top Cow Comics. Danny is still attached to produce several projects independently. He also teaches seminars to writers across the country.

Hayley McKenzie: Hayley runs Script Angel, working as a development consultant and script editor on feature films and television dramas in the United Kingdom and United States. Hayley's produced feature-film script-editing credits include Papadopoulos & Sons, Chakara, and The Watcher Self. Hayley was development executive at ITV Studios and script edited prime-time UK shows Casualty (BBC) and Blue Murder (ITV).

Brett Wean: Brett is a writer and actor who has studied improvisation at New York Citys acclaimed Upright Citizens Brigade and Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT), where he has taught improv as well as performing on several house teams and studying both sketch and screenwriting. He has appeared on television in various commercials, including New York Lotterys Little Bit o Luck campaign, and most recently on MTV's Weird Vibes and in the feature film Breakup at a Wedding, produced by Zachary Quintos Before the Door Pictures.

Drew Yanno: Drew has been writing for film since 1993 and has been a member of the Writers Guild of America since 1995. Drew founded the screenwriting program in the Film Studies department at Boston College where he taught for eleven years. He is the author of