Brenda Thissen – Writer

  Home Base: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Bio: As a new lawyer, I remember settling into the rhythms of adult life, mundane but pleasant enough. Yet I experienced an inarticulate restlessness, like a character in a Robert Frost poem who wonders if this, then, was everything. It wasn’t until I …

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Anthony Piatek | Screenwriter

Home Base:  Chicago, IL Bio: Fixed-Income Derivatives Trader, marathon runner, and hockey player with a passion for story-telling and writing. Script Portfolio: Spec Episode:  Boardwalk Empire, “LITTLE HELL” Logline: While visiting Chicago, Nucky is presented with a potential business deal that forces him to choose between friend Johnny Torrio or fellow Irishman Dean O’Banion.  Meanwhile, …

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Vince Green | Screenwriter-Author

  Home Base: Los Angeles, CA Bio: I grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas and attended the University of Michigan on an ROTC scholarship, then went to law school.  After law school I spent five years in the Army (JAGC) as a criminal defense lawyer.  I tried everything from a tank murder case (he fired …

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Dawn Higginbotham Writer-Director-Producer

Home Base:  Studio City, CA Bio:  After attending the American Musical & Dramatic Academy in New York, I transitioned into film where I worked in production on numerous feature films including “Die Hard W/ A Vengeance” (John McTiernan), “Jim Cameron’s Titanic,” “The Thin Red Line” (Terrence Malick), and “Fear and …

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