Our screenplays are getting read at studios

With the capable assistance of our agent Karl Sanger, our scripts are being read at Castle Rock, Working Title, The Robert Evans Company, DreamWorks Animation, National Lampoon, and Lionsgate, to name a few. We're grateful to everyone in ScreenplayLab for making so much possible for us. We met our agent through ScreenplayLab. We've honed our skills as writers by testing our work through ScreenplayLab workshops. The ScreenplayLab speakers have helped us a lot, too.

Gabrielle Pantera and I have two new scripts out being read at studios. 'A More Perfect Union', is a political comedy Gabrielle wrote with NYC speech writer Jason Haber. 'The Corset Diaries' is a romantic comedy Gabrielle and I adapted from the bestselling novel by Katie MacAlister.

Important Films ('Team America') was the first company to finish reading 'The Corset Diaries'. Our fluffy rom-com isn't their type of movie. But, they liked our writing and invited us to a meeting. When you submit a script to a studio, both the script and the writer are being evaluated. They can't buy every good script that comes along. They're looking for great scripts that match their mandate, but also looking for great writers. At the meeting, which is really more of a casual get-to-know-you than a pitch, you learn first-hand what type of stories they want.

You may remember DreamWorks Animation exec Karen Foster talked about the get-to-know-you meeting process when she spoke at ScreenplayLab. The development director wants to cultivate good writers. For the writer being invited to take a meeting it's flattering. It feels nice being told they want to read anything you write. Even with the guidance of a studio mandate, they only really know what they want when they see it. Even if you don't get invited to a meeting you may still hear the encouraging words that they want to see your next screenplay. That happened for us recently with MTV Films ('Jackass 2') and Summit Entertainment ('Mr. & Mrs. Smith').