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:
Alex Davies - Director of Education, Roadmap Writers

Alex holds a degree in English Literature from UCLA, which she earned while pursuing acting. As an actress for many years, she learned the ins and outs of character, story and entertainment first hand, both on stage and in front of the camera. As the Director of Education at Roadmap, Alex strives to identify the most common hurdles writers face in developing their work and design classes, clinics, and webinars to address these issues. In addition, Alex is a writer with several scripts, a novel, a short film (produced during the AT&T Shape Create-A-Thon), and a webseries (coming soon!) under her belt. Prior to Roadmap, Alex worked in live events, law, and education.

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 more than 350 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, 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, and more.

Verbal Pitch “Scenarios” Prep

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Summary

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:
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.

Coach Tiffany's Pitch Checkup

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Summary

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.

Download Lecture Document 

Host:
Marisa Martinez Marquez - Project & Events Coordinator, Roadmap Writers

Marisa Martinez Marquez is a proud Filipina American born and bred in SacTown. Playwright turned screenwriter, her focus on the complications of being Asian while American earned her multiple grants, publications, and awards, including being named 100 Most Influential Filipino Women during her seventeen years in NYC. Her emphasis on representation as a genre writer highlights diverse female leads with supernatural problems who endeavor to do good when there are only bad options. 

Marquez is a Roadmap Grand Prize Winner–Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship and an Unlock Her Potential mentee of Emmy-nominated executive producer Francie Calfo. Along with placing in The Writers Lab, ScreenCraft, PAGE, and the Black List & WIF Episodic Lab, her supernatural drama THIRST, about a Filipina teen who inherits the ability to drain water from the living, is on Coverfly’s The Red List. Her series MIND THE GAP, a top BBC Comedy Writers Room contender developed while attending MetFilm School in England, is currently set up with a London-based team. Marquez splits her time between LA and Portland, OR, where she co-hosts the Paranormal POC Podcast, covering the supernatural to the extraterrestrial from the BIPOC diaspora. 
 

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.