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!
Character character character - I want to know who I'm going to be living with throughout this story.
The three buckets I'm focused on right now are: Light one-hour network procedurals (think BEST MEDICINE or HIGH POTENTIAL), character-driven big idea scifi (i.e. SEVERANCE, PARADISE), YA that doesn't exclusively revolve around romance (STERLING POINT, GILMORE GIRLS). But I generally respond to scripts with strong characters, a unique voice, and a vision for how to sustain a long-running series.
What is most important to me is a writer who is willing to dig deep to find the heart of the story they want to tell and do the hard work of crafting a compelling narrative. It is a big project and very easy to burn out before getting a manuscript to the place it needs to be to be viable in the marketplace so stamina and a willingness to kill your darlings is key.
Romance, faith-based, horror especially slasher/gore, overtly political stories (though open to allegory/genre-based social messaging)
Dahlia Metchis is a scripted television producer and development executive with over 15 years of experience. Beginning her career at CAA followed by stints at 20th Television and NBC, she worked on iconic series such as PSYCH, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, GLEE, COMMUNITY, and THE GOOD DOCTOR before transitioning to producing as Creative Executive for the director Richard Shepherd.
In 2016 she began a long-running partnership with writer/showrunner VJ Boyd (JUSTIFIED, SWAT) serving as Vice President of Production and Development for his Pernomium Pictures banner. Together they produced multiple network pilots and two series, most recently the Netflix limited series THE MADNESS starring Emmy winner Colman Domingo, and built a development slate including projects at Apple TV, Amazon/MGM, Netflix, and AMC among others.
While working with Boyd she also expanded her work into the publishing world, becoming an Author Accelerator Certified book coach and developmental editor, helping writers with everything from ideation to manuscript revision to agent querying. In 2026, Dahlia launched In Success Productions with a mission to uplift great storytelling and connect it to passionate, devoted audiences.
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.
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.