The Pitch Fitness Club [Subscription]

Online Classes
$79.00 per month

The Pitch Fitness Club is a subscription-based screenwriting group providing you with tools to market yourself as a writer & keep in touch with what today's industry standards look like.

This program allows you to audit select classes from the Career Writer Program to see what it's all about!

Pitch Fitness Club members are also invited to one exclusive workshop per month. There are four different workshops and they rotate monthly, so signing up for an ongoing subscription means not only do you get a discount, you can work on a different aspect of your brand or script.

Check out below for a full list of the benefits members receive!

The Pitch Fitness Club

Here's a secret: talent will only take you so far in Hollywood. Professional writers push their scripts ahead of the pack by knowing how to expand their network and pitch themselves and their projects! Our club is here to teach you those skills.

Make sure to check the "SCHEDULE" tab  each month. All sessions take place 100% online via ZOOM so writers can participate from anywhere in the world. If you cannot make a session, recordings are available.

Save $20 if you start a monthly subscription to The Pitch Fitness Club—only $79!
 

Membership includes bonus sessions and exclusive discounts in addition to these monthly offerings:

  • Interactive Q&A Session
  • Live Verbal Pitch Prep Lecture w/ Literary Manager
  • An Open Pitch Session (value $45) of your choice with written feedback from an Exec
  • Quarterly Logline Workshop
  • Quarterly Verbal Pitch Roundtable w/live feedback from an Exec
  • Quarterly Written Opening Pages Analysis of your script's first 3 pages, with a coupon for a bonus 10-Minute Read Session  (value $49)
  • Quarterly Writer Brand Workshop w/Roadmap CEO Joey Tuccio
  • 2 x On-Demand Webinar Recordings of your choice
  • Zoom Mixer with fellow members of The Pitch Fitness Club

Verbal Pitch Prep Lecture

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Summary

This lecture and Q&A will cover:

  • The general structure of a pitch
  • Honing in on the basic goals of pitching
  • Tips on holding an exec's attention during your pitch
  • And you'll hear an example verbal pitch to get you off on the right foot!
Host:
Chris Deckard - Manager / Co-Founder, Fictional Entity

Prior to co-founding the management/production company Fictional Entity in early 2017, Chris Deckard spent over seven years working with and representing talent at the major agencies ICM Partners and WME. While at WME, Chris worked in the media rights department, selling books for series and film adaptations before moving into the talent department, where he worked closely with high level actors in film, television, and the then-emerging digital space. While at ICM Partners, he again worked with high level actors and worked closely with the packaging and sales department and the digital media group. For over a decade, Chris has worked closely with traditional and new media buyers to find and develop content for domestic and international audiences. In addition to helping cast and package numerous features and series, he has evaluated thousands of scripts for actors and directors. Chris graduated from Cornell University and earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.

Chris helps his clients navigate the evolving entertainment landscape in the United States and abroad. He has negotiated deals for features, series, and podcasts in several international territories. His clients have been named to The Black List, The Hit List, The Young & Hungry List, The Blood List and been lauded by the PAGE Awards, the International Emmys, and The GLAAD Awards. Clients have also earned nominations and placements from The Heath Ledger Scholarship, The Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, the AWG, ADG, SPA, and AACTA. Clients have written, directed, starred, and produced in numerous formats, including features, TV, virtual reality, and podcasts, independently and for companies like Netflix, Lucasfilm, NBCUniversal, Legendary, Marvel, Fremantle, SyFy, the CW, Warner Bros., Amazon, Blumhouse, Hulu, XYZ, The BBC, Comedy Central, the ABC Australia, Foxtel, TruTV, Super Deluxe, Hallmark, Lifetime, CBS, Facebook, E!, and MSNBC.

Several of Chris’ clients had films shoot in 2021, including one for Netflix, and another which sold to XYZ Films, both of which are slated for 2022 release. Within the past year, clients have sold series to Amazon, Netflix, eOne, and Hulu. Chris, along with his business partner, is also an Executive Producer on a scripted series project alongside two writing EPs from New Amsterdam which sold to Universal Television in 2021.

The Writing Hour & Roadmap Writers Q&A

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Summary

Ask any lingering questions you may have about Roadmap Writers, the Career Writer Program, how to make sure you're getting the most bang for your buck, and then spend a luxurious session writing with your fellow writers, perhaps with prompts, perhaps with music, perhaps just with the company of other writers. Hop on and get those pages done!

Host:
Terra Joy - Director of Consultations & Script Services, Roadmap Writers

Terra Joy started her career in Washington, DC as a journalist and social justice nonprofit advocate where she also managed a documentary film campaign -- resulting in 115+ screenings in under nine months. She was also very active in the local screenwriting community as a member of WIFV. Before joining the RoadCrew, she was a reader for Slamdance. She has read well over a thousand scripts, and has seen the trends in feedback from execs on over 6K screenplays. As a Virgo with OCD, Terra is also a professional proofreader and formatting editor, and is a staff writer on Season 2 of FORNICAKES -- an award winning webseries about two polar opposite best friends who open up an erotic bakery in Florida. She's been to 35+ countries, loves boba and stand-up comedy, and making way too many playlists. Her greatest wish is that one day one of her movies can afford to license Led Zeppelin.

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 professionals and are designed to empower writers with actionable tools and insights to elevate your craft, and cultivate relationships. Since 2016, we have helped more than 475 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, FUBAR, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, MAYANS, COBRA KAI, POKERFACE, LAW & ORDER, and others. They have also sold to, set up projects at, and been produced by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, MGM, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Starz, Legendary, American High, New Republic Pictures, Anvil Pictures, Bohemia Group, Lifetime, Will Packer Studios, Roku, among others.

Verbal Pitch “Scenarios” Prep

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Audit a session as writers in our Marketing Intensive Program master the art of small talk or "chit-chat" before & after their pitch and practice the ability to handle any exec personality in the room. In this session, the host will take on different exec "personalities" while writers do their pitches to help give them the skills to handle any type. 

Host:
Jaime Kawamoto - Director of Access Programs, Roadmap Writers

Jaime Kawamoto is a proud Japanese-Canadian who writes to free the sarcastic, knife-wielding cheerleader cartwheeling through her brain. Currently, she has multiple features moving forward, including an action-thriller, sci-fi book adaptation THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL, and bitchin' Shakespearean update BETH+MAC. In recent years, she was part of 2025's Nicole Kidman-supported The Writers Lab with a TV pilot, developed a horror feature in Jumpcut Media's incubator, and co-created, wrote and produced sci-fi/horror podcast FEMME FUTURE perfect with Emmy-winning designers Sound Rebels. Jaime's BFA in screenwriting and Second City Conservatory training help her spin trauma and anger into genre-storytelling gold. 

Coach Tiffany's Pitch Checkup

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Audit a session of at most eight (8) writers in our Step 2: Marketing Intensive as they practice the pitches they've been going out with & workshop their pitches with notes from Director of Competitions, Tiffany Yarde. Here, you'll get tips on pitching, be able to experience more examples pitches in action, and cheer on your fellow writers! Following the pitch workshop, if there is time, we will open up to Q&A.

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Host:
Tiffany Yarde - Director of Competitions, Roadmap Writers

Tiffany Yarde is a Caribbean-American screenwriter developing thriller and horror projects that fuse psychological tension with culturally rooted storytelling. Raised in Brooklyn by Bajan immigrant parents, her work explores fear as a byproduct of identity, generational trauma, and survival, using genre to challenge monolithic portrayals of the Black experience while delivering high-stakes, emotionally grounded narratives.

Her credits include the TV movie DRESS FOR SUCCESS (Tubi) and the short films BON VOYAGE and OUT OF TIME. Tiffany was a fellow of the inaugural Creative Corridor Program, a transatlantic initiative by Independent Film Trust and Roadmap Writers, where she developed genre-forward projects alongside an international creative cohort.

She holds a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA in Screenwriting from the David Lynch School of Cinematic Arts. Tiffany is focused on building elevated thriller and horror stories with global appeal and lasting emotional impact.

'Writer Brand' Clinic

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Join Roadmap CEO Joey Tuccio for a Zoom roundtable where he will go over your bio and discuss your writer brand to help you better position yourself in the marketplace. This session is exclusive to members of The Pitch Fitness Club!

Host:
Joey Tuccio - CEO of Roadmap Writers

Joey started in the industry at Bold Films (DRIVE, NIGHTCRAWLER, WHIPLASH) and has read for Hugh Jackman's company, George Clooney's company, and Night and Day Pictures, to name a few. Experiencing how hard it was for writers to receive real tangible advice on how to break into the industry, Joey and Dorian created Roadmap Writers over 9 years ago.  At Roadmap, Joey focuses on connecting vetted writers with execs in the industry. He has helped hundreds of writers connect to their representation, get staffed and get produced. He also mentors for Cinestory and The Writers Lab. When he's not helping writers, he spends his time rescuing animals in need. 

Through Joey's outreach, writers have signed to CAA, APA, Verve, Circle of Confusion, 42, Anonymous Content, Affirmative Entertainment, Range Media partners, Bellevue Productions, Buchwald Agency, Meridian Artists, Rosa Entertainment, RAIN, Lit Entertainment Group, Luber Roklin, Echo Lake, Navigation Media Group, Industry Entertainment, Schemers Entertainment, AAO Entertainment, Kaplan Perrone, Grandview, Housefire Management, Allied Management Group, Artists First, 3 Arts, Story Driven, Ensemble Entertainment, Citizen Skull, Heroes and Villains, Sugar23, First Story Entertainment, Mosaic, Chatrone, Metamorphic Management, Gramercy Park Entertainment, The Cartel, Avalon, Art/Work, Untitled Entertainment, Gotham Group, Schulman Management, Kersey Management, Good Fear, Agile Entertainment, The Gersh Agency, A3, Content House, Kaplan Stahler, Wonder Street, Framework Entertainment, HG5 Entertainment, Zero Gravity, 831 Entertainment, REJ Entertainment, Paradigm, Epicenter, Fourth Wall, Make Good Content and more. Joey has also helped set up projects at Hulu, American High, New Republic Pictures, Legendary, Luma Pictures, Josephson Entertainment, Lifetime, Anvil Pictures, Bohemia Group, Paperclip  Limited and more.  

These signed writers have gone on to sell and set up projects with Warner Bros., Netflix, Amazon, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz, Hulu, Bigscope Films, Nicely Entertainment, Stampede Ventures, among others. They have also staffed on GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES, WE WERE LIARS, LAW & ORDER, COBRA KAI, NIGHT COURT, BRIDGERTON, THE FLASH, CHICAGO PD, FUBAR, THE FIRST LADY, THE GOOD DOCTOR, THE RESIDENT, REACHER, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, MAYANS MC and POKER FACE. 

How it Works

Cancellation Policy: You may cancel for a full refund up to 5 days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations requested after this period will be ineligible for refunds.

Please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.

The Roadmap Promise

Roadmap Writers prides itself on the quality of executives we bring to our programs and we work hard to get you the best feedback possible.

Our vetted executives are chosen by the legitimacy of the companies they work for and their ability to evaluate pitches and pages.

Only the executives you sign up for will be provided with your materials.