Episodic Lab ~ Back to Nosara!

We are happily returning to Nosara, Costa Rica for our 2022 Episodic Lab. The pandemic prevented us from traveling internationally for the past two years so bringing this program back to the paradise of Nosara is exciting. 

Writers will spend time in deep exploration and development as they imagine the best possible version of their episodic projects. Our writing/showrunner mentors include Tracey Scott Wilson and Lulu Wang. and our pitching and development mentor is Matt King, Head of Tentpole & Universe Development at Amazon Studio.

After many weeks reading submissions and interviewing talented writers, we have selected a mix of dynamic humans with dynamic, original, diverse projects. We are excited to introduce you to this years Episodic Lab cohort, the newest members of our intimate creative community.

Originally from the Midlands in the UK, Kam Odedra is a British Indian screenwriter now living in London. She began her career working as a script editor for Nicola Shindler at Red Production Company. Her editorial credits include Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Banana and Gangs of London. Kam began writing full time in 2020. She has numerous original drama ideas in development with the aim to explore relationships, identity and what it means to be human. Her recent writing credits include McDonald and Dodds, Ackley Bridge, Whitstable Pearl and Lupin.

FOUR SISTERS: In the wake of their grandmother’s death, four sisters return to their parental home in Leicester, UK, for the first time in years. But the 11-day mourning period observed by this Hindu family threatens to destroy them as they are forced to confront a dark and violent childhood secret that left a man dead. Heart-warming and heart-breaking, FOUR SISTERS is a 6 x 60 TV drama series which examines the power of healing. Told across two timelines, the series weaves together the lives, loves and revelations of the Adani family.

Dru Johnston was a writer for The Chris Gethard Show, and a longtime writer, performer and teacher at the UCB Theatre in NY where he played George in the hit show Improvised Seinfeld. He's written for MTV, Audible and FunnyOrDie, and as an actor has been seen in Orange is the New Black, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Law and Order: SVU among others. He's also worked as a house painter, a CPA's assistant, and that same CPA's house painter. Raised outside of Seattle, he currently lives in Los Angeles.

THE BIG ONE After an 8.9 earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, Dan Quigley moves back home to help his stubborn parents navigate the disaster, and pick up the literal pieces of the town that he grew up in.

Jennifer Cho Suhr is a Korean American writer and director, working in animation and live action. She is currently developing a series for DreamWorks Television and is in development on her debut live-action feature, Time Away (formerly You and Me Both), which is executive produced by Ken Jeong and was selected for Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access, the Film Independent Producing Lab and Fast Track programs, and was a finalist for AT&T’s Untold Stories. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn where she’s also employed as an unpaid laborer/mom of two kids. 

MONOLIDS is an adult animated comedy that explores the joyous and messy exploits of three Asian women/creatives/friends as they navigate life at an elite liberal arts university and discover their artistic voice within a culture that would rather ignore them.

Tim Brittain is an author and screenwriter whose work focuses on psychological inheritances through the lens of historical drama and family fiction. He began his career as a writing assistant on shows including Mozart in the Jungle, Fargo, and American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. His first feature about Hurricane Katrina was developed with Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street and he most recently wrote for Manhunt, a limited series produced by Apple TV about the hunt for President Lincoln’s assassin. His first book, Deep Fakes, is due out later this year.

LURLEEN Countrified Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, is termed out of office just as his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" thrusts him onto the national stage. To maintain power for a presidential run in 1968, he manipulates his wife Lurleen into running for governor.