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!
Lead with your hook and your protagonist—what makes this story stand out? Show me the stakes, the tone, and why it matters to you. Be clear, confident, and give me a sense of the heart or humor that makes the story memorable.
Right now, I’m particularly interested in emotionally rich, character-driven stories across TV and film. In television, I’m drawn to dramas, dramedies, and edgy comedies that explore complex relationships, family dynamics, and outsider perspectives. I’m also excited by female- and Latinx-led narratives, both in half-hour and one-hour formats, for cable and streaming platforms.
In features and shorts, I’m interested in story-driven projects that balance humor and heart with edge, including intimate dramas, dark comedies, and high-concept stories with strong character arcs. I enjoy working with emerging writers and creators with bold, authentic voices and writers who are excited to push genre boundaries while keeping emotional stakes front and center.
I’m not the right fit for hard sci-fi that isn’t rooted in character, fantasy projects that rely primarily on world-building over emotional stakes, or narratives that hinge solely on mythology or dense lore. I’m also not looking for broad stoner comedies or stories driven mostly by plot mechanics rather than human complexity.
I am open to supernatural/paranormal and action projects—as long as the characters and their emotional journeys are front and center.
Emmylou Diaz is a writer, producer, and filmmaker with over a decade of experience in network and streaming drama. Her credits include JANE THE VIRGIN, GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE, CHARMED, and STATION 19, among others. She has served as Co–Executive Producer and the Number 2 on series for Freeform/Hulu and Amazon. She currently has multiple projects in development across television and short-form media.
She is Advisor to the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship and a recipient of the 2025 Resetting the Table Hollywood Impact Fellowship. Emmy is active in WGA leadership as Co-Chair of the Latinx Writers Committee and teaches screenwriting for Sundance Collab and other organizations. Writers she has worked with have placed in Sundance Labs, Austin Film Festival, the Black List, and other top competitions.
Emmy holds an MFA from A.R.T./Harvard and a BA from Williams College.
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.