K. Broch is a queer, mixed, disabled, comedy writer raised by a single Mexican-American mom in West Michigan. After dabbling in teenage crime, her ankle tether came off just in time to graduate from Michigan State University and create her own redemption story. She’s worked in marketing, as a beauty blogger and makeup artist, and a producer, UPM, and writer on short films. She writes, produces and co-hosts the podcast, She Said…Let’s!, sharing artists’ stories of overcoming fears and the women in film & TV who empowered them to do so. K. was a 2023 National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters fellow, and a Pre-Rainbow Pages, Pre-Lista and 1IN4 2024 mentee. Currently, she’s a writer/director for the dating sketch comedy show, Single Riders Only. K. tells stories of complex women in an identity crisis, finding the good in those who do bad things.
Quincy Cho is a bi writer/filmmaker/actor. She is a WA on Season 5 of Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, where she got a freelance script, and a fellow of HBO’s Amy Aniobi’s Tribe Writers Program, Women in Animation, and The Fellowship—a creative accelerator for BIPOC fantasy novella writers. Her series The Mama Cho Show premiered at Catalyst Content Festival and has been nominated for Best Sketch Show at LA Webfest. She has appeared as an actor on Shameless, Jimmy Kimmel, and national commercials and is the comedic lead of Saverio, which won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Phoenix Film Festival. As a first-gen, elder daughter to Korean immigrants, her work explores absurdity and complex relationships through a queer, AAPI lens—all wrapped in familiar cultural reference points. She enjoys pole dancing, hot yoga, snowboarding, scuba, and all the food. She can run 1 mile.
Jacy Duan is a Chinese American writer and actress born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley on a diet consisting (almost) entirely of boba. A graduate of Princeton University with degrees in Sociology, Theatre, and Asian American Studies, she currently serves as the Writer’s Assistant on TRACKER (CBS) after previously working on the Hulu Originals and 20th Television Series teams. Jacy writes stories that challenge traditional immigrant narratives by combining genre elements and mystery. Ultimately, her writing hopes to reflect the diverse, multi-faceted immigrant community she grew up in – building bridges across oceans, languages, and cultures.
Sydney Laws is a writer and researcher from the best place in the South: Atlanta, Georgia — where storytelling was a front porch requirement. She honed her craft at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, blending filmmaking with cultural anthropology. That passion fueled her work as a Creative Producer at the Emmy Award-winning studio The Skin Deep, where she produced a relationship docu-series featuring over 1,000 couples. Most recently, she served as a researcher and writer’s assistant on TV adaptations of Octavia Butler’s Kindred for FX and the Wicked novels for Hulu. She was a finalist in the 2024 Blacklist/WIF Episodic Lab, Moonshot Pilot Accelerator, Austin TV Pitch Competition, and WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab. She is currently a mentee of Jacque Cofer in the Unlock Her Potential program and a fellow in the Super Special TRIBE Writers’ Fellowship. She remixes the past with the future—blending Black folklore, hidden histories, and Afrofuturist sensibilities. Her stories center on ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances, layered with genre, absurdity, and just the right amount of bad decisions.
Persians haven't been relevant since they were mutants in Zack Snyder's 300… until now. Amir Mo is a Persian/Iranian comedy writer/director/actor/comedian whose directorial debut features comedy veterans from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, MADtv, BORAT, and HOWARD STERN. Amir writes fish out of water commercial comedies with a provocative twist that are designed to pull audiences out of their safe space. He comes groomed from the prestigious NBC Page Program, where he worked on a number of notable programs like THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO and Jimmy Fallon's GUYS WITH KIDS.
Sule Murray is a Black Chinese-Jamaican writer who, like many New York natives, now finds himself based in Los Angeles. His screenwriting aspirations began as a young, insatiable Star Wars enthusiast, forced to storyboard fanfiction scripts since kindergarten hadn’t quite covered spelling yet. Murray earned his BFA in Television Writing and Production from Chapman University, where he graduated cum laude and currently serves as co-lead of their NextGen alumni mentorship program. He launched his career as an intern at Pharrell Williams’ I Am OTHER, climbing the ranks to associate producer on Focus Features' music documentary, Piece by Piece. Additionally, he worked as a development assistant at Mad Massive Entertainment. Most recently, he completed The Writers’ Colony residency founded by Mara Brock Akil. Murray crafts vibrant, layered genre stories that “make the personal political and the political fantastical.” His writing often explores themes of cultural memory, community, and exploitation, celebrating the ingenuity and creativity of marginalized voices while tackling complex issues with empathy and imagination.