TV/PILOTS/STREAMING: Looking Toward the Future
WEDNESDAY 6/28 @ 1PM

Moderator: Richard Scott

Richard Scott is a former politico, who had White House clearance and was loosely investigated by the Russian FSB. He loves writing, but his dream is to be the 6th Backstreet Boy. He got his MFA from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater School. He writes stories about flawed people navigating uncomfortable journeys to personal growth with humor and heart. HIs scripts have led to him winning multiple competitions, and receiving multiple option deals. 

Christopher Barbour – Writer/Producer

Christopher Barbour is proud to be the product of the merging of two distinct immigrant streams. His father was anillegal alien from north of the border, who escaped his rather Dickensian upbringing on the mean streets of Toronto, Canada, in order to pursue his Hollywood dreams. His mother, on the other hand, was the daughter of legal immigrants from south of the border, down Mexico way, who decided to put down deeper roots in California. Ultimately, it was the miracle of 1960’s nightclub entertainment that would bring these two together one evening at a cabaret in San Francisco called the Hungry i, where his father was being paid to tell some jokes just before his mother was going to come out to sing and dance. So, you see, Chris comes by this whole show-biz thing pretty honest. It’s in the genes. Though, when he attended Stanford University, the plan was to become the next Tiger Woods. Well, he was actually four years ahead of Tiger, but becoming a championship-winning golfer was the initial goal. That is, until he got recruited by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. And if professional acting meant never having to audition, then Chris would most certainly have been the next Robert Downey, Jr. At least in his own mind. But instead, he realized that he actually preferred making up the words the actors had to say rather than having to say them himself. And while co-writing an adaptation of the timeless children’s classic THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE got him his start, it was landing on a job on the NBC television series CROSSING JORDAN, where he found his true passion for crime drama and mysteries. Since then, he has spent the last few years plotting murder for shows like CSI, CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS, and the original CRIMINAL MINDS. Currently, he is working on a spy-fi extravaganza for Netflix, shooting in Madrid, Spain, called IN FROM THE COLD.

Olivia Cuartero – Briggs – Writer/Producer

Olivia Briggs is a writer on a mission, and that mission is adventure. Once a little girl who wanted to do and be anything and everything, Briggs soon discovered that the only way to achieve her lofty goal was through the written word.

Briggs was most recently a staff writer on “Queen of the South” on USA, and before that, was a staff writer on “The Arrangement”, an original drama series on E! Entertainment, and has worked as a writers’ assistant on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. She holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts as well as a B.A. in theater with honors from Oberlin College. She has won the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award as well as the Flint Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award, and was most recently was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival’s AMC one-hour pilot division. Her original play, “Ronnie’s Cabinet” was produced in New York City, receiving the Thespis Theatre Festival’s Best Original Play Award, and “Bottles on the Water, A Night of Short Plays from Abroad”, co-written by Briggs, received its off-off Broadway premiere and is available in paperback. She has also contributed think pieces and feature articles for various publications, including GetTheBigPicture.net, Today’sFan.com, Tribeca Pediatrics, and more.

Adam Glass – TV Writer/Executive Producer

Though NYC will always be home, Adam resides in Los Angeles. He is a TV Writer/Executive Producer of such shows as“SUPERNATURAL,” “COLD CASE,” “CRIMINAL MINDS,” “THE CHI,” and “BARKSINS.”

When Adam is not writing for TV or FILMS, he’s writing GRAPHIC NOVELS for MARVEL COMICS’, “DEADPOOL SUICIDE KINGS,” & DC COMICS,’ “SUICIDE SQUAD 1 & 2,” which were all NY TIMES BEST SELLERS, and introduced HARLEY QUINN to the team. Along with his critically acclaimed two-year run-on DC COMICS, “TEEN TITANS.” Adam also has a foot in the independent market with creator-owned titles from AFTERSHOCK COMICS such as “ROUGH RIDERS,” “THE NORMALS,” “LOLLIPOP KIDS,” and “MARY SHELLEY MONSTER HUNTER,” which is being developed by BBC STUDIOS.

Adam is the CREATOR & SHOWRUNNER of the NETFLIX SHOW, “IN FROM THE COLD.” On Netflix. And presently, he is the Co-showrunner of “THE EQUALIZER” on CBS.

Camile Tucker – Writer/Producer/Director

Sundance alum Camille Tucker hails from Compton, CA, where both her father and brother formerly served as mayor. She is co-writer of Lifetime’s hit biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, which was nominated for five NAACP Image Awards.

With an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University, Camille has sold scripts to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV and Disney and worked with producers Robert De Niro, Marc Platt, Debra Chase and the late John Singleton, who was a mentor and friend. In 2021, she was a Sony Pictures TV Diverse Writer fellow.

Currently, Camille is writing a biopic for LeBron James’ Springhill Entertainment and Disney+, developing a TV pilot with 50 Cent’s G-Unit and the Starz network and an EP/writer on the Gladys Knight limited series. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, andrepped by Entertainment 360.