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2026 Green Room Members
Congratulations to the 2026 Green Room members selected to take part in a special, nine-month writing program designed to increase the strength and visibility of Northwest Screenwriters. For more information on the program, please click here.
George Wing
Green Room Co-Lead
George Wing is a Seattle-based screenwriter and producer who works in feature films (both studio and independent), episodic series, and most recently, Bollywood. He prefers to write original material on spec. He is developing a Broadway Musical version of his movie 50 FIRST DATES with multi Tony winner Casey Nicholaw. After hiding under a rock during the pandemic years, he is newly motivated to help generate some Seattle/PNW film productions.
Joey Johnson
Green Room Co-Lead
This is Joey’s fourth year co-leading the Green Room, and is excited to help continue the journey of elevating Northwest Screenwriters. Joey has been writing for pretty much his entire life, starting with short stories, an accidental foray into novels, and then finally screenplays, where he has found the most fun and satisfaction. He graduated with honors from Harvard University with an English degree, but his best education was from having written, directed, and co-produced two Seattle-based feature films Shadowed (2013) and Paralytic (2016). While bringing scripts to life has been a life-changing experience, he looks forward to writing stories unbounded by limited production budgets.
Anthony Dorough
Anthony Dorrough is the author of many creative writing projects from grade school to present, short stories, incomplete young adult novels, spec screenplays and film treatments, including A Surfista’s Wisdom, not-a-New Yorker fiction finalist; Axielle Time Synthesist, not-a-Printz Honor Medal winner and Jonathan Fenton Chocolate, not-a-Final Draft Big Break winner… Yet! A Washington State engineer, he lives with his wife, Anita in Shelton.
Kelly Blackard
Encouraged to tell stories at an early age, Chicago-born screenwriter Kelly Blackard has been crafting dad jokes since she could play house. Today, she packs punchlines into biting, female-focused coming-of-age stories. Her first original pilot, Crate Diggers, recently won the Jury Grand Prize for Limited Series at the Coronado Island Film Festival, and her first feature screenplay, Noble Rot, was a semifinalist for The Writers Lab International 2025. The Austin Film Festival has also recognized her work. She recently completed an MFA in TV and Screenwriting and has contributed to satirical sites like Reductress and The Needling. When she’s not writing, she enjoys baking, spoiling her dog, and mainlining UK-based police procedurals.
Vince Delaney
Vince currently has two features in pre-production: the horror comedy ORLANDO CARES at Story Mill Productions (GA), directed by Ben Rock (BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), and the SF thriller RACHEL, produced by Jib Polhemus (COYOTES). RACHEL will be shopped at the European Film Market in Berlin in February. His SF drama CANAAN was a finalist for the Disney Writing Program through the Blacklist, and he was commissioned to adapt the recent Netflix documentary HEIST into a feature film. Also a playwright, his newest comedy THE MALLARD was just featured in festivals at Orlando Shakes, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Capital Rep (NY), B Street Theatre (Sacramento), and Premiere Stages (NJ), where it had its world premiere last
summer. vincentdelaneyplaywright.com
Stephanie Platter
Stephanie Platter is a highly caffeinated 20-year veteran teacher turned emerging screenwriter. As a writer, she likens herself to a wide-eyed Punky Brewster at a movie premiere - delighted to enter other worlds through characters on emotional journeys. She recently leapt into a writing career so she could bring her own wild, honest, heartwarming ideas to the screen.
MD Wright
Mathew David (MD) is a screenwriter from the Pacific Northwest whose background in poetry shapes his approach to writing scary stories, blending emotion, mystery, and the unsettling power of what’s left unsaid in the white space. Mathew writes horror/thriller features that explore the intersection of fear and the familiar, where ghosts and gore are rooted in the slow violence of everyday life, like NASTY OUT THERE, where a couple’s Spring Break is derailed by rental property neighbors and cult sacrifices, or MOUTH TO MOUTH, in which a family’s Thanksgiving dinner takes a brutal turn as they’re forced to nourish their vampiric mother. His scripts consistently earn consider/recommend ratings from coverage services, are Blacklist recommended, and place in genre contests like Screencraft, Fade In, Filmmatic and BlueCat (*finalist in the Stage 32 Action/Thriller competition in December 2025). Mathew holds degrees in Literature and Creative Writing from Portland State and a Master’s in Education from Seattle University. Teaching high school, raising kids, and confronting loss have only deepened his perspective: dread and anxiety thrive in life’s smallest corners.
Craig Packard
Craig was introduced to the power of cinema when, at the age of six, his parents took him to see Jaws. What trust remained was further eroded when they next took him to see The Spy Who Loved Me, featuring a character called Jaws, and a frickin’ shark. By the time Star Wars came out the trust had already been irrevocably broken. Most days he can be found staring off, rocking gently, muttering, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat…” He has been writing and directing films for over a decade, with the singular goal of amassing enough power and wealth to properly exact his revenge. And, y’know, try and make the world a better place, or whatever. His most recent production is the feature western, THIS BLOODY COUNTRY, released by Quiver Distribution in October of 2025.
Jeffrey David Schick
Schick is a writer/director whose original screenplays placed in Austin, PAGE, ScreenCraft, and Big Break. His short films The Calling, Halo, Swipe, and Hatch screened at festivals around the world, earning audience and jury awards. He attended UCLA for screenwriting and founded AV Room Productions, a boutique production company focused on bold, original storytelling across narrative, branded, and digital formats. He currently works as an adjunct professor at Cornish College of the Arts, where he teaches Screendance, the convergence of cinematography and choreography. Prior to filmmaking, Schick worked in advertising and marketing for some of the world’s largest brands and top creative agencies.
Kevin Rexroat
Kevin Rexroat is a writer, producer, and musician in Tacoma. His latest feature-length drama script scored a pair of 8s on The Black List and was featured on their Best Screenplays Our Readers Read Last Week list. His other comedy and drama screenplays and teleplays have been finalists in Scriptapalooza, Final Draft’s Big Break, Emerging Screenwriters, The Oaxaca Film Festival, and The Bigfoot Script Challenge. Kevin has written and produced music videos (as well as being roadie, drum tech, and guitar tech) for his son’s band Stargazy Pie, and if you talk to him for more than about two minutes, you will hear something about this band. His blood type is Arabica.
Chris Taylor
Originally from Central Florida, Chris began his adult years as a Marine Corps combat videographer. Soon after his enlistment, he moved to Washington where he studied film at Art Institute of Seattle and launched Adventus Films, mostly serving as a cinematographer and editor but also writing on occasion. His work consists of dozens of Seattle-based features, shorts and commercials, including his self-produced, award-winning features MARTINGALE and WINTER ISLAND - both released in 2024. While these days he spends most of his time managing a food truck business and performing with his band 90's REWIND, he still dips his toe in the waters of film production a couple times a year.
Eva Holman
Raised on Calvin & Hobbes and classic Simpsons, Eva Holman has admired and sought to emulate great comedic writing for as long as she can remember. Her television scripts have placed in the Big Break Screenwriting Contest and the UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television Professional Program’s Annual Writing Competition. In addition to writing, Eva enjoys hiking, tutoring, and attempting to sew. She is excited to join the 2026 Green Room and to learn from her talented peers.
Lacey Leavitt
Lacey Leavitt Gray is a producer and writer from Seattle. She’s been fortunate to produce features for some of the nicest, funniest, and most talented humans she’s ever met, including Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, Todd Rohal, and Colin Trevorrow. She’s also made weird and hysterical adult swim TV shows with Rohal, Benjamin Kasulke, and the incredible trifecta of Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, and Alyssa Stonoha (aka the Three Busy Debras). She's also on the board of Scarecrow Video, her cinematic temple. While Lacey first started her filmmaking path as a writer, she found it much easier to produce other people’s work than to face the blank page. Now that she’s a parent and tells kids that they should do what they love even if it’s scary, she’s taking her own advice and looking forward to working with the Green Room cohort.
Megan Brotherton
Megan is a writer-director known for telling funny stories with real heart. She started out writing sketch comedy for Funny or Die but quickly fell in love with narrative filmmaking. After being named a CDDP Fellow in 2023, her commercial career took off. She's been busy balancing commercial shoots with mothering two young kids and directing two short films that had great festival runs. Now that her youngest is 2, Megan is excited to get back to her other babies: her feature scripts.
Readings for the Green Room scripts to take place in November.