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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.

Raina Pratto (she/they), born and raised in North Carolina, now living in Los Angeles, is a queer polyamorous non-binary southern badass who often feels boxed in by labels. They write dysfunctional workplace and family comedies with larger-than-life characters at the intersection of diversity and belonging. After deciding that becoming a nun to avoid their sexuality wasn’t a good idea, Raina moved to Southern California to attend Cal State Long Beach, where they combined their love of artistic expression and people by studying theatre with an emphasis on directing with a minor in sociology. They currently work as a director for a comedy/news/talk show OFF THE CLOCK at KTLA. In that time they also graduated Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s Sketch Writing program, received UCLA Extension’s TV Writing Certificate, as well as took countless other classes at The Second City, Hollywood and IO West. Their comedy pilot NUN OF THIS was selected twice to be read by actors at the Breakthrough Reading Series. They get to write a joke a day for OFF THE CLOCK, but the assignment is almost always about food and it leaves them hungry for more.