2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

John Merriman starred in the New York Times Critic's Pick YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, the LA Film Fest winning feature GRETCHEN, and the indie comedies MUSTANG ISLAND, PICTURES OF SUPERHEROES, and CINEMA SIX. He also acted in the acclaimed Sundance films SISTER AIMEE and PIT STOP as well... Read More →

Megan Amram is a comedy writer, performer, and author. She was a writer and producer on the NBC series The Good Place for which she received an Emmy nomination, The Simpsons, Transparent, Silicon Valley, and the final three seasons of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. She showran... Read More →

Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Matt Selman has worked on THE SIMPSONS for 27 seasons and counting. Selman has written or co-written 30 SIMPSONS episodes, and was one of the writers on THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. He has won seven Emmys, a Writer’s Guild of America Award and a Peabody... Read More →

Peabody Award-winning manager/producer Jennie Church-Cooper has spent the last 15 years working with comedic writer-performers — scouting, cultivating, and propelling them into careers as TV and feature writers, showrunners, directors, podcasters, actors and more. She joined Levity... Read More →

With over fifteen years of experience, three time Emmy nominee Jameel Saleem has built a career in television and film as a writer and producer, earning recognition for his work on series such as South Park, Bob's Burgers, and Disenchantment. He's currently writing two pilots for... Read More →