Meet Our Accelerate Fellows
Our Fellows are incredibly talented and ambitious mid-level disabled screenwriters.
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.
Jamey Perry
Jamey, a paraplegic TV writer, actor, and adaptive athlete from Seattle, is dedicated to using disability to offer new perspectives.
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.
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.
Marc Muszynski
Marc is a writer and comedian from Chicago, who, despite being visually impaired, once convinced someone to let him fly an airplane.
Jenn Lloyd
Jenn (she/her) is a New Jersey-born comedy writer with a degree in film from Syracuse University.
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.
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.
Sam Dunnewold
Sam Dunnewold (he/him) is a Minnesota-born comedy writer who likes a sharp wit and a good poop joke.
Aoife Baker/Greg Machlin
Aoife Baker (they/she) and Greg Machlin (he/him) are neurodivergent writers who fled from the frozen alien planet of Maine and camouflaged themselves as humans in L.A.
Shaina Ghuraya
Shaina Ghuraya (she/her) is a writer and director whose style is a lot like her personality—quirky, bold and unapologetic.
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.
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.