It's spooky season, and what better way to celebrate than a carefully curated webinar bundle with some of Roadmap's favorite horror/thriller themed webinars? This is our biggest (and arguably our best) bundle yet! So grab your best sweater, gather around the campfire, and tune into these awesome lectures.
Included in the Bundle:
- All Things Horror: The Spooky Season Panel
- Crime Writing Intensive
- Everyone Loves A Villain: Creating Compelling Antagonists
- Horror 101
- How They Work: Horror Movies
- The Modern Horror Market
- Thriller 101
To watch all seven webinars in this bundle would normally be $238, but the bundle is only $70!
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 hundreds of 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, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, MAYANS and POKERFACE. Writers have sold, set up and been produced by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, MGM, American High, New Republic Pictures, Maven Screen Media, Lifetime, Will Packer Studios and Roku.
Born in suburban South Jersey to two mostly normal people who love a good drive-in B-movie, Kelly Gallagher attended Boston University, where she studied Film/TV and English, primarily focusing on Film Studies, Screenwriting, and Physical Production. After graduating, she got her start in the business at management company Industry Entertainment working in the Television Literary Department, and as a Script Reader for the Paradigm Agency. She then joined the film and television development arm of indie comic book company Oni Press, where she worked on book-to-film projects such as David Leitch's ATOMIC BLONDE and Co-Produced the Chris Hemsworth hit EXTRACTION, Netflix's most-watched original film. Since joining the rebooted Dark Castle, Kelly has been able to fulfill her blood-and-guts dreams working with the iconic horror brand. She recently Co-Produced Simon Barrett's directorial debut SEANCE starring Suki Waterhouse and Inanna Sarkis (RLJE/Shudder), Mary Harron's THE EXPECTING starring AnnaSophia Robb and Rory Culkin (Quibi/Roku), and Dark Castle's upcoming prequel to 2009's cult hit ORPHAN, ORPHAN:FIRST KILL, which stars Julia Stiles and Isabelle Fuhrman reprising her iconic role.
Joe Russo is a three-time BloodList screenwriter whose feature film credits include the Peyton List and Bob Gunton starring horror film, THE INHERITANCE (#3 movie on Hulu, Christmas 2024), the Bruce Willis-starring HARD KILL (#2 movie on Netflix, Thanksgiving 2020), the Ryan Phillippe, Ving Rhames and Kate Bosworth-starring THE LOCKSMITH, the Neal McDonough-starring SOUL MATES and the Lifetime thriller THE AU PAIR NIGHTMARE.
As a producer, Russo’s feature credits include the Mickey Rourke-starring horror anthology NIGHTMARE CINEMA (#2 movie on Shudder, 2019) and the Zac Efron and Russell Crowe-starring THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER for Apple TV+, which premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival. In the podcast space, Russo produced seven seasons of the award-winning horror series POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS.
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush is a screenwriter, author, international speaker, and forensic specialist. Raised as the daughter of a medical examiner whose office was in their home, forensics is infused into her DNA. As a screenwriter Jennifer wrote the theatrically released film and novel, God Bless the Broken Road (2018), and has worked in TV developing, and writing both original and adapted work. As an author, Jennifer penned the crime writer’s guide Forensic Speak; suspense thriller, Hole in the Woods; and mystery series The Coroner’s Daughter, optioned by Lifetime TV. She is also penning the scripts. Jennifer contributed to the upcoming Murder, Music & Mystery anthology (Blackstone, 2022). She is a sought-out teacher, speaker, and mentor. Her real life is a lot less exciting than any of her heroines'. She does typical things like hang out in knitting stores, travel whenever possible, hike the desert, raise doxies, and drink way too much espresso.
Say hello to Jennifer on IG: @JGDornbush or YouTube: Forensic Fridays. Sign up for her monthly newsletter at: www.jenniferdornbush.com
After graduating from Missouri State University with a degree in Mass Media, Dan Ingram moved to Los Angeles where he received his MFA from New York Film Academy in Screenwriting. After briefly working in reality television, he was hired by the President of Production for De Laurentiis Company as Creative Executive during the run of the hit NBC series HANNIBAL.
Lindsay Schwartz is an Independent Producer (formerly the Director of Development at FullyFormed Entertainment). FullyFormed is the new venture from Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, who co-founded Platinum Dunes with Michael Bay in 2001. While at Platinum Dunes, they produced both film and television. Notable series include BLACK SAILS on Starz, THE LAST SHIP on TNT, and currently, JACK RYAN, Amazon’s most-watched show. On the feature side, they are responsible for some of the biggest genre films of the last decade, including THE PURGE franchise, the OUIJA movies, and the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES movies. Lindsay began working for Fuller and Form in November of 2016 under the Platinum Dunes banner. During that time, they produced and released A QUIET PLACE, one of the most commercially successful original-concept genre movies in years. In August of 2019, Lindsay joined Form and Fuller when they left Platinum Dunes to create FullyFormed Entertainment and signed a three-year deal with Paramount Pictures and are developing numerous features and series with studios such as Paramount, Sony, MGM, Universal, Miramax, and Amazon, amongst others. Before FullyFormed and Platinum Dunes, Lindsay worked at Paramount Pictures and Happy Madison Productions.
Questions?
If you have any questions or any trouble accessing the recordings, email our Director of Education Alexandra Davies at alex@roadmapwriters.com!