Katelyn is a screenwriter and playwright from Arlington, Texas, and is a proud member of the LGBTQ community. Recently her work has been recognized in the Glasgow-based The Monthly Film Festival, with her script selected for Quarterfinalist, and selected as a finalist for the Frights! Camera! Action! Screenplay Contest. She strives to create work that will impact individual lives as well as the industry. She currently has two feature films in the works, and she will be attending the Vancouver Film School in the fall.

Seth Panitch heads the MFA and Undergraduate Acting programs at The University of Alabama, and is a professional director, actor, published playwright and screenwriter, who has worked from Havana, Cuba, to New York, to Los Angeles.

Jason Kartalian was brought up in a creative environment. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, his father is one-of-a-kind character actor Buck Kartalian, his credits include, Planet of the Apes, Outlaw Josey Wales and hundreds of Television shows. In Planet of the Apes, Buck played Julius, Keeper of the Cages (the cigar smoking ape!)

Jason's first feature film "Pedestrian," was selected to numerous film festivals across the US and won the best picture and best screenplay awards at the AFMA Film Festival and the Best Screenplay award at the Long Island Film Festival. His horror feature "Driller" was selected to the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco and was distributed all around the world.

Kartalian wrote and directed the feature film SEAHORSES.  The film played many international film festivals and won many awards.  After a theatrical run, the screenplay to SEAHORSES was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be part of their permanent core collection.   

Jeffrey Howe 's first two feature screenplays, "Robo4ce" and "Cover Crop," won or placed in twenty-two contests and festivals. His first short screenplay, "Medicine Show Blues" has won or placed in thirteen festivals in the past year. He was a top 5 finisher in this year's NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge.

His short fiction has appeared in One Teen Story, in the anthology Moon Shot: Murder and Mayhem at the Edge of Space, and in the quarterly anthology The First Line.

He lives and works in the scenic Black Creek Bottoms area near St. Louis, Missouri, where he fights off writers' block with liberal doses of 70s funk and cool jazz. His family understands.

He can be reached at: mercilessidioms@gmail.com