Inside the Career Writer Program

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. 

Jaime Kawamoto is a proud Japanese-Canadian, currently living in Hamilton, Ontario. She's finally putting that BFA in screenwriting -- with a minor in feminist philosophy -- to good use after a detour into dog rescue. Six of Jaime's genre-bending scripts placed in contests over the last year, most recently as a semifinalist for the Stowe StoryLabs. She uses the comedy chops she honed in the Second City Conservatory to spin trauma and anger into (very) darkly funny social commentary gold. Jaime writes to free the little voice inside her head: a sarcastic cheerleader with a dagger strapped to her thigh who will cut you if you touch her.

Manager: Nicholas Bogner, Affirmative Entertainment

Robert A. Douglas is a Baltimorean dedicated to uplifting the voices of marginalized children through various expressions of art. As an author, filmmaker, educator, and producer of podcasts, Robert uses writing to motivate others despite their current circumstances. To date, Robert has published four books (Fertile Concrete, Fertile Concrete II, The New Souls of Black Folk, and On the Border) that gives wheels to his own voice as well as others in underserved communities. Robert also adapted his own book The New Souls of Black Folk into an indie documentary he produced called NEW SOULS; chronically topics from single-parent homes, school to prison pipelines, the homeless epidemic and more. He has also expanded his latest work, On the Border, into a podcast called Reaching the Border where he gives voice to some of his students targeted by various mediums, their own communities, etc. In his downtime, Robert likes to cook, be a recluse out in nature, and spend time with his family.

Growing up on the multicultural island of Maui, Aleks spent his youth chasing perfect waves and sneaking on to private resorts' grounds to jump off their sixty-foot cliffs into the ocean. Aleks then found himself telling action-packed stories of the day's adventures around the beach bonfire. Aleks' gravitation towards storytelling pushed him to bring these colorful and creative insights to Hollywood, where he writes stories centering around underdogs with themes of moral ambiguity and class divide. He attended The University of Alabama, with a major in television and film and a minor in creative writing, winning best story at the school's film festival. He then worked his way up through the assistant channels at CBS Network and eventually transitioned over to the writer's room on CBS’ Magnum P.I, MacGyver, AMC’s The Driver and now ABC’s THE ROOKIE, where he is currently the Writers Assistant. Aleks writes action TV, which includes his young adult crime drama pilot that was just selected as the GRAND PRIZE winner in the 2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition.