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Monica Macer is a writer, producer and development executive who began her career in the New York City theater world. After winning the Edward and Sally Van Lier Foundation Fellowship and participating in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, she transitioned to Los Angeles and a career in film. She co-produced
the award-winning independent feature Park Day, then worked in development for both Nickelodeon Movies and the Walt Disney Company. Later, Monica was selected for the Fox Writers program. After two seasons as a writers’ assistant on 24, she landed a staff writer job on Lost, worked two seasons on Prison Break as a staff writer and story editor and most recently worked as an executive story editor for the NBC series Knight Rider.
Travis Mann is a producer and entertainment attorney who has represented a number of studios and independent production companies, advising them on a wide variety of issues pertaining to film finance, development, international sales, production and distribution. Travis received a B.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law where he was an editor of the UCLA Law Review. He has worked for the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, represented New Regency, MGM and Warner Bros., and is now with Inferno Entertainment. Travis is currently producing several feature film and reality television projects.
Bill Marsilii co-wrote the romantic time-travel thriller Déjà Vu, which sold to producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Touchstone Pictures for $5 million in a pre-emptive bid and went on to gross over $180 million worldwide. Soon after, Bill sold 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo to Walt Disney Pictures, where it came within weeks of shooting when a regime change at the studio shelved the project. He has written scripts for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, TriStar, Warner Bros. and Paramount, and his television credits include The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and two comedy pilots for the Hallmark Channel in which he also starred. Most recently, Bill and his Déjà Vu partner Terry Rossio sold their space adventure Lightspeed to Jerry Bruckheimer in another record-setting deal, and Bill’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is now in pre-production at Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop for a Fall 2010 start.
Stephen McEveety recently completed an exclusive producing deal with Icon Productions where he executive produced What Women Want, Payback, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Immortal Beloved, The Man Without A Face, and Braveheart. He also served as producer for The Passion of The Christ, Paparazzi,
We Were Soldiers, 187 and Airborne, which he also wrote. In January 2007 McEveety launched Mpower Pictures, whose first film released was Bella, which won the prestigious Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival. Recently completed films include An American Carol, written and directed by David Zucker, and The Stoning of Soraya M. written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. Steve has just wrapped production on his latest feature Snowmen, written and directed by Rob Kirbyson.
David McFadzean is a writer, producer, and partner in Wind Dancer Films. He served as Executive Story Editor on the premiere season of Roseanne and later created and executive produced the ABC hit television show Home Improvement. He has also executive produced and co-created television shows with Carol Burnett, Ed Asner, Haley Joel Osment, Dave Chappelle and Dan Aykroyd. His film production credits include Where the Heart Is, What Women Want, and Walker Payne, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. David has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Evansville and a Master of Arts in Theater from Illinois State University. He currently serves as a member of the Act One Board of Directors.
Stacy Milner is the founder and Vice President of Executive Temps, a prominent placement agency exclusively servicing the entertainment industry. She has placed thousands of professionals in temporary and permanent positions with clients including Warner Bros., Walt Disney, DreamWorks, NBC Universal, ABC, CBS, The CW, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Harpo Productions. Stacy herself has more than fifteen years’ of experience as an Executive Assistant to both network and studio chairmen including Grant Tinker, the late Brandon Tartikoff, Warren Littlefield and Kerry McCluggage. Her most recent undertaking is the formation of Leveraging Up!, an etiquette and protocol training seminar for aspiring entertainment professionals. She and her business-partner husband, Ted, live in Burbank with their children.
Ted Milner is the President and co-founder of Executive Temps, the leading temporary and permanent placement agency for the entertainment industry in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. A former professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, California Angels and Cleveland Indians,
he recently formed the Black Baseball Players’ Association to acknowledge the contributions of the Negro League Baseball Players. He is also the founding CEO of the Remembering When Foundation, which educates young people about Black American history and provides free baseball clinics and camps. Milner holds a BS degree in Organizational Leadership from Biola University. He is married to his Executive Temps co-founder, Stacy, and a proud father of three.
Andrea Nasfell is the co-owner of Sodium Entertainment, an independent film and TV production company. She has written over a dozen feature screenplays as works-for-hire and award-winning specs. She currently has four films in active development – the family comedy Double O Dad (optioned by MPower Pictures), the romantic drama Bliss (starring Zachary Levi of NBC’S Chuck), the off-beat comedy Boo (adapted from the novel series by Rene Gutteridge) and another family comedy written for PureFlix. A graduate of Act One: Writing for Hollywood, she often serves as a script consultant and screenwriting mentor.
Phil Nemy is an entertainment veteran and the author of Get A Reel Job, a reference guide for aspiring filmmakers. A former Vice President of Production at Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, he worked on dozens of Disney productions, including the box office smashes Armageddon, Con Air, Enemy of the
State, and The Princess Diaries. In 2001, he formed Angel’s Touch Productions and is currently developing for television two episodic series programs, Blue Faith and Interpol, as well as the wine-tasting game show Cork Dorks and the family reality program Capture the Flag. He is also developing the feature films The World Awaits and Delivery from Moscow, the internet web series Coffee Buzz, and Merton of the Movies, a stage musical based on the 1930’s George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart hit comedy. Nemy has lectured on the business of entertainment at Universities around the country.
Barbara Nicolosi-Harrington is the founder of Act One, and is currently the Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors. Originally from Portsmouth, RI, she has a Masters in Cinema from Northwestern University, and is an adjunct professor screenwriting and cinema at Pepperdine University. Nicolosi-Harrington is a member of the WGA-West. She wrote Mary, Mother of the Christ, with Ben Fitzgerald (The Passion of the Christ) for a 2010 wide-release by MGM. The movie stars Al Pacino and Peter O’Toole and will be directed by James Foley (Glen Gary Glen Ross). She wrote a contemporary resetting of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, called Polosuasion for IMMI Pictures in Beverly Hills, and is currently writing Fatima, for Origin Entertainment in Manhattan Beach. Nicolosi-Harrington is the co-editor of the 2006 Baker Books release, Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith and Culture.