Lucy Mastrullo mentored by Susannah Grant*
Script: “On Air”| ONE-HOUR WORKPLACE DRAMA
In the 1970s, a group of avant-garde artists contend with their drug addictions, ambitions, and egos as they work together against crushing deadlines and controlling censors to keep their groundbreaking educational kid’s show on air.
Contact: LMastrullo@Alumni.AFI.edu

Connor Savage mentored by Mike Flanagan
Script: “Blood Moon Shine”| ONE-HOUR DRAMA/HORROR
In a Tennessee coal-mining town, one year into the Great Depression, a timid, newly widowed salesman must work with his ferocious 11-year-old daughter to sell 500 bottles of illegal moonshine, in order to restart the town’s economy. With gangsters and police on their tail, the salesman and his daughter must find help in the most unlikely, and terrifying, of places… an ancient and hungry vampire living in their mine.
Contact: connorsavagewriting@gmail.com

Nicky Schmid mentored by David Shore
Script: “Spill” | ONE-HOUR POLITICAL DRAMA
The corrupt cover-up of an oil spill on the North Pacific Coast forces a disgraced reporter to choose between his family and his career as the pursuit of the truth takes him, and the team of politicians and activists he puts together, into uncharted and immoral waters.
Contact: NSchmid@Alumni.AFI.edu

Reuben Bernardo Qhapaq mentored by Rafe Judkins
Script: “Gift of Starlight” | ONE-HOUR SCI-FI/FANTASY DRAMA
One thousand years after the planet Vrukilla’s darkening, one sudden night – the king is murdered. Suspected of the crime and plagued by sinister dreams, his daughter-heir must flee the kingdom and walk backwards in time as she finds herself in a war between Gods and Death himself: who seeks to claim her as his bride.
Contact: RTietz@Alumni.AFI.edu

April Peng mentored by Angela Kang
Script: “Yes, And?” | HALF-HOUR COMEDY
Tyra Wang, depressed paralegal by day, improv tyrant by night, leads her amateur Asian-American improv group of middle-aged losers into the cutthroat world of Heehee Fest, an elite improv competition, in order to prove to the world–and her parents–that Asians have a place in comedy.
Contact: APeng@Alumni.AFI.edu

Deanna Esposito mentored by Danielle Iman
Script: “Dissent” One-Hour Legal Drama

Jared Hoffman mentored by Matt Stone & Trey Parker
Script: “Mad Messiah” Half-Hour Comedy

Elly Howard mentored by Diablo Cody
Script: “Black Sheep” One-Hour Dramedy

Colin Petersdorf mentored by Bill Lawrence
Script: “The College A Cappella Sad Boy Confidence Show” Half-Hour Comedy

Rachel Pontbriand mentored by Ashley Lyle
Script: “Fear & Trembling” One-Hour Drama

Max Hersh mentored by Vidhya Iyer*
Script: “Butterfly” One-Hour Drama

Adam Rottler mentored by Nora Nolan
Script: “See You Next Tuesday” Half-Hour Comedy

Marley Schneier mentored by Amy Pocha and Seth Cohen
Script: “Messiah” Half-Hour Historical Comedy

Anna Vecellio mentored by Dailyn Rodriguez
Script: “Lost Prophet” One-Hour Drama

Mariana Zavala mentored by Munis Rashid*
Script: “Eastshore” One-Hour Crime Drama

Suhana Chander mentored by Lindsay Golder*
Script: “Jaani” Half-Hour Comedy

Gianmarco Maximilian Giacomelli mentored by Eli Jorné*
Script: “Two Kings” One-Hour Drama

Christina Kelly Holmes mentored by Christina Strain*
Script: “For Women Only” One-Hour Historical Drama

Lia Wang mentored by Andy Siara*
Script: “Model Minority” One-Hour Crime Drama

Yancey Wang mentored by Randy McKinnon*
Script: “South Sea” One-Hour Historical Adventure

Haley Bartels mentored by Andy Siara*
Script: “Barbary“ One-Hour Period Mystery

Kenda Greenwood Moran mentored by LaToya Morgan*
Script: “Tammany” One-Hour Historical Drama

Christina Licud mentored by Christina Strain*
Script: “24K” Half-Hour Dramedy

Alessandro Pederzoli mentored by Sheila Wilson*
Script: “Narcobruja” One-Hour Horror

Sofia Drumond-Moore mentored by Norberto Barba*
Script: “RELIQUARY” One-Hour Mystery

Cari Daly mentored by Lizzy Weiss*
Script: “BANSHEES” One-Hour Crime-Drama

Marco Evaristo Arizpe mentored by Many Coto*
Script: “BRUJO” One-Hour Drama

Jessi Shuttleworth mentored by Alyson Feltes*
Script: “SCABLAND” One-Hour Drama

Sara Swingley mentored by Jacqueline Hoyt*
Script: “SLEDGE” One-Hour Sci-Fi Drama

Kevin Kennelly mentored by Michael Zam*
Script: “Saint Francis” One-Hour Drama

Krystal Javier mentored by Emmy Grinwis*
Script: “Haukea” One-Hour Crime Drama

Jess Kohs mentored by Maggie Friedman*
Script: “Countess” One-Hour Horror Drama

Sheila Wilson mentored by Nastaran Dibai*
Script: “No Quarter for Wild Beasts” Limited Series Drama

Randy McKinnon mentored by Chad Feehan*
Script: “Savages” One-Hour Sports Drama

D.M. Brent mentored by Michael Dinner*
Script: “Offender” Half-Hour Comedy

Victor Nascimento mentored by Bradley Buecker*
Script: “The Leading Men” Limited Series Drama

Munis Rashid mentored by Quinton Peeples*
Script: “Poppy” One-Hour Drama

Rose Schimm mentored by Shana Stein*
Script: “Fringe Benefit” One-Hour Dramedy

Eileen Shim mentored by John Shiban*
Script: “Darklings” One-Hour Horror Drama

Brennan Peters mentored by Raelle Tucker*
 “The Empress” One-Hour Historical Drama

Tegan Shohet mentored by Mikkel Bondesen*
Script: ”Paperhanger” One-Hour Drama

Andy Siara mentored by Alex Herschlag*
“Life After Punk” Half-Hour Comedy

Christina Strain mentored by Norberto Barba*
Script: “The Fox Sister” One-Hour Supernatural Drama