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Roadmap Writers is a talent training and discovery platform for screenwriters ready for a guided path to success. Our programs are hosted by working industry executives and are designed to empower writers with actionable tools and insights to elevate your craft and cultivate relationships with industry professionals. Since 2016, we have helped hundreds of writers from all over the world sign to representation, staff on series, and option and produce their projects. Our writers have been staffed on BRIDGERTON, THE FLASH, CHICAGO PD, THE FIRST LADY, NIGHT COURT, THE GOOD DOCTOR, THE RESIDENT, REACHER, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, MAYANS and POKERFACE. Writers have sold, set up and been produced by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, MGM, American High, New Republic Pictures, Maven Screen Media, Lifetime, Will Packer Studios and Roku. 

 

Evan Schmitt is a freelance comedy writer, script doctor, and creative director with a background in development and management. Previous companies include Balance Pictures, PMG, Creative Content, and most recently, Confidential Cartoon Studios. Evan calls the world of independent filmmaking home and has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects. In her spare time, she teaches screenwriting and hosts the podcast, Real True Facts.

 

Daniela Gonzalez is a literary manager at Good Fear, a feature film & television production and management company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Daniela identifies as a TCI – a third culture individual: Venezuelan-born, with a childhood in South East Asia, Daniela’s found her roots in the United States. Her international background informs her taste as she builds her roster of clients who have unique voices and backgrounds. Daniela holds a BA in Film Production with a minor in Film Producing from New York University.

A graduate of Boston’s Emerson College with a degree in producing for film and TV, Maddie Breeland recently joined Dean DeBlois’ (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON) Anvil Pictures, as Director of Development. Maddie began her career as a development assistant at Fox 2000 Pictures (THE HATE U GIVE; HIDDEN FIGURES; LOVE, SIMON) before working for Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney live-action features, and eventually being promoted to development coordinator at Walt Disney Pictures (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; ALADDIN; MULAN). At Anvil, Maddie will develop and produce live-action and hybrid content as part of their deal with Universal (JURASSIC WORLD; THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS; FURIOUS 7), including upcoming projects, TREASURE ISLAND and MICRONAUTS. She’s a fan of all genres but personally loves action, adventure, sci-fi/fantasy, thrillers, and true-crime documentaries. Maddie is a huge advocate for diversity and inclusion and aims to make content that promotes underrepresented groups.

Colleen McAllister is a writer and film & TV executive in Los Angeles. Passionate about telling animated stories, she has worked as Director of Current Series at Hasbro Studios driving creative on the broadcast, digital, and publishing platforms for their major TV franchises. Her credits include MY LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIA GIRLS, MICRONAUTS, LITTLEST PET SHOP and HANAZUKI. She has worked as a Creative Executive and Producer for Illumination Entertainment on the MINIONS franchise, SECRET LIFE OF PETS, SING and THE GRINCH. Her original pilot, PUSSIES, an adult animated comedy about cats, was selected for the HBO sponsored 2016 WIF|Blacklist TV lab. She is a contributing author to the lifestyle magazine, Bella Grace and is currently head writer on an unannounced Netflix animated series slated to air in 2021. Colleen has her B.S. in Television Radio & Video Production from Ithaca College and her M.F.A in Motion Picture Producing from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Producing Program. She hails from blustery Upstate New York and lived abroad in Ireland and thus has an above-average ability to survive cold temperatures and make Irish Coffee.

Tiegen Kosiak is a producer, instructor, executive, and consultant based in Los Angeles, CA. She began her entertainment career working in literary management at Untitled Entertainment, and later went on to run development for Zoe Saldana's Cinestar Pictures. Tiegen then built out celebrity twin Tia Mowry's production company and co-produced the holiday feature FIRST CHRISTMAS with OWN and Marvista. In 2018, she formed Dark Matter Entertainment to develop and produce scripted content for all platforms, particularly elevated horror, thriller, and dark comedy. Tiegen recently moved into the immersive entertainment space where she works with licensed content, original experiences, and music / TV / film IP.

Audrey Knox is a literary manager at Cartel, representing writers in film and television. Her clients have staffed on shows including REASONABLE DOUBT, SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE, P-VALLEY, GINNY & GEORGIA, GROWN-ISH, and THE UPSHAWS, and she has clients with comedy pilots set up at ABC and Broadway Video.

Audrey's feature clients have written ALICE, DARLING (Lionsgate, 2022), CRUSHED (Tubi, 2022), THE SANTA SUMMIT (Hallmark, 2023), and the SINGLE BLACK FEMALE franchise (Lifetime, 2022-present). She has writers working on assignments for Wayfarer, Mattel, DreamWorks Animation, and Marvel. Her client Buck Productions is developing pilots with Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic), Bobby Moynihan (SNL), and Joe Lo Truglio (BROOKLYN NINE-NINE).

Audrey worked her way up from Receptionist in 2016 to Manager in 2018.

Davina Hefflin, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, moved to California to pursue a MFA in Screenwriting at Chapman University. It was there that she got introduced to the agency world and discovered a passion in helping young, diverse creatives achieve their dreams in the film industry. After two years of working with Sean Barclay in the TV Lit department, she was promoted, realizing a hidden talent of developing projects with clients from the agent perspective. From script to screen, Davina works with her clients to bring their ideas to fruition and map out a strategy for their long-term careers.

For more than 10 years, Tiffany Boyle has leveraged her business-oriented sales and packaging skills to bring hundreds of films and documentaries to fruition. Since 2018 alone, Tiffany has optimized clients’ financial and business positions in more than 35 films and documentaries. Through her critical review of content and strategic use of Ramo Law resources, Tiffany creates successful content packaging that bridges the needs of both client and industry demands.

Tiffany connects filmmakers with producers, co-producers, executive producers, co-finance partners, distributors, agencies and other industry representatives. Recently, she served as a Co-Executive Producer and brought in financing for films SOMETHING ELSE (Tribeca 2019) and ARKANSAS starring Liam Hemsworth and Vince Vaughn. She led the sales and packaging for TRAGEDY GIRLS (SXSW 2017) and FREAKS (Toronto IFF 2018), she brought foreign financing to ASHES IN THE SNOW (Los Angeles FF 2018) starring Bel Powley, and she sold an autobiography to Hulu for development into a limited television series.

Experienced with project budgets ranging from micro-sized to $30 million, Tiffany has helped to establish and expand these high-value sales and packaging resources, uniquely accessed outside of the traditional management company and agency model, since joining Ramo Law in 2009. With this experience, she has been able to help foreign production companies and investors create a foothold in the US marketplace.