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!
TV is storytelling meant to be consumed in your home, and as such, I'm always going to lead character first. Make me understand them, and I'll go on as high concept a journey as you want to take me on.
I’m driven by compelling characters regardless of the genre in which they inhabit. I'm currently drawn to television that feels molded from the classic storytelling models as well as shows that aren't afraid to inhabit multiple tonal spaces. Widow's Bay comes to mind as a form of the latter, while Adults serves as a model for the former. History told through a contemporary lens (such as NatGeo's A SMALL LIGHT) and genre that refracts back on what it means to live today will always draw an interest.
Speculative literary fiction angled towards crafting a world that is not our own to attempt to make sense of our own. To that end, thrillers with a nod towards today's reality will always have space, as will dramas, comedies, and dramedies that find the beauty in the mundane, giving us fully-realized character we think we can know to watch how they choose to do things.
Matt Derr currently serves as a development consultant across film and television, working closely with writers on projects in development and not yet announced. He was most recently an executive in the Scripted Television department for Keshet Studios, utilizing Keshet's international footprint to service a Universal Television first look and independent studio mandates. Credits across broadcast television and streaming/premium platforms include ECHO 3 (Apple), SMALL LIGHT (Nat Geo), THE MISSING (Peacock), and LA BREA (NBC).
Prior to joining Keshet, Matt worked in comedy at HBO on such shows as LOOKING, PROJECT GREENLIGHT, CRASHING, and THE COMEBACK, while collaborating alongside colleagues on a slate of comedic projects.
Matt's career began in talent management at MGMT. Entertainment, working alongside the likes of Keira Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter, and Haley Bennett, coordinating professional efforts and covering incoming submissions, playing an instrumental part in Keira Knightley's work in IMITATION GAME.
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.