Meet Our Accelerate Fellows

Our Fellows are incredibly talented and ambitious mid-level disabled screenwriters.

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Simone Hawthorne

Bronx-born writer Simone, is a proud mom, who thrives on playing devil's advocate, and uses her writing to explore the complexities of human nature.

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Jamey Perry

Jamey, a paraplegic TV writer, actor, and adaptive athlete from Seattle, is dedicated to using disability to offer new perspectives.

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Ashley Eakin

Ashley, a writer/director with a physical disability, has directed for Disney+, Apple TV+, and Netflix, and is committed to changing the portrayal of disabled people in media.

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Sheridan O’Donnell

Sheridan (he/him) is a Texas-born, Korean-American writer and director whose work explores family, identity, and human connection through character-driven stories that seamlessly balances catharsis and humor.

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Marc Muszynski

Marc is a writer and comedian from Chicago, who, despite being visually impaired, once convinced someone to let him fly an airplane.

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Jenn Lloyd

Jenn (she/her) is a New Jersey-born comedy writer with a degree in film from Syracuse University.

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David Dineen-Porter

David Dineen-Porter is a comedy writer with an interest in science fiction and absurdism. He was born by emergency C-section, demonstrating an early love of drama.

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Monica Cecilia Lucas

Monica Lucas is a neurodivergent, Puerto Rican screenwriter who writes stylistic character dramas about women and girls wrestling back power from the systems that seek to diminish them.

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Sam Dunnewold

Sam Dunnewold (he/him) is a Minnesota-born comedy writer who likes a sharp wit and a good poop joke.

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Anton Ray

Anton Ray (he/him) is a poly-ethnic writer who works most often in the one-hour drama space, with a special fondness for Sci-Fi and Urban-Fantasy.

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Shani Am. Moore

Shani Am. Moore (she/her) is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University, UC Berkeley, Stanford Law School, and UCLA Extension. Her sweet spots are grounded stories with jagged relationships and notes of levity.

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Kalen Feeney

Kalen Feeney (she/her) is a bicultural and bilingual writer and actor from the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up with a love of the outdoors.

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