Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
I love anything character driven. Get me invested in a flawed, interesting character. Build in a fresh world, and worry about the premise later. Good storytelling comes out of rich, broken people. The premise is just an engine for change. Any emotional investment is born of great character.
Half our comedies are what I write and pitch, typically. So I'm probably best suited to hear those projects as I've been put through development bootcamp by producers and network execs in my own career. I'd love to pass along what I've had to learn the hard way to newer writers.
That being said, I love to read action projects, and thrillers too. When I worked at Universal TV we developed several high profile dramas with well known showrunners for NBC, Showtime, and AMC.
Reality or documentaries. I don't have any career experience there, and probably couldn't be of service to any potential clients.
Brendan Casey began his career as a development executive at Dark Toy Entertainment, a production company with a 4 year, exclusive deal at Universal Television. Since then, he's transitioned into writing and staffed on the comedy HIT THE ROAD starring Jason Alexander. He's also set up multiple pilots with cable and streaming outlets, and developed shows with producers Scott Auckerman and Andy Samberg. His children's humor book, Until You Came Along, was named the funniest book on parenting by BuzzFeed. He is currently adapting the book PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT with Executive Producer Aseem Batra attached to showrun.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.