Success Stories
Success Stories
In recent years, over 50 Big Break semi-finalists, finalists, and winners have been signed to professional representation. Many have had scripts optioned, sold, and produced. Others have found full-time work in television. Read about their successes below!
Manfred Lopez Grem
2020 Top-5 in TV Half-hour for Teleport
Signed by Zero Gravity
Chris Hill
2020 Top-3 in Period/Historical/War for One Day Longer
Signed with Matt Dy of Lit Entertainment Group
Bill Poore
2020 Feature Horror category winner for Slaycay
Signed with LIT Management
Steve Anthopoulos
Grand Prize Feature Winner 2019
Signed with Daniel Vang at 3Arts
Ben Johnson
Category Winner 2019
Signed with Mark Finley of Plain Text Literary
Jesica G. Hill
Category Winner 2019
Signed with Brian Spink of REALM
Myles Reid
Grand Prize Feature Winner 2018
Signed with Jewerl Ross and staffed as the showrunner’s assistant on The Lost Boys
Natasha LePetit
Quarter-Finalist 2018
Her script The Undertakers Children has been optioned by Chayah Masters/Rumination Road with Alex Gayner set to direct
Jonathan Barger
Quarter-Finalist 2018
His script Station Zero has been optioned by Zorg Studios with Erwan Marinopoulos set to direct
Greta Heinemann
Grand Prize Feature Winner 2017
Signed with Jeff Portnoy of Bellevue and is the current supervising producer on Good Girls
Charles and Hana Callaghan
Grand Prize TV Winners 2017
Attached Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige of Blazing Elm Entertainment to executive produce their winning script
Nancy Duff
Top-3 2017
Signed with Jennifer Au of Untitled Entertainment, 2018 Universal Writers Program Fellow
Julia Mogerman
Category Winner 2017
Signed with Jeff Portnoy of Bellevue
Greg Wayne
Category Winner 2017
Signed with Brian Spink of REALM
Nicolas Pinzon
Category Winner 2017
Signed with Markus Goerg of Heroes and Villains
Kevin Bachar
Category Winner 2017
Signed with Matt Koss of Zero Gravity Management
JJ Bailey
Category Winner 2017
Signed with Markus Goerg of Heroes and Villains Entertainment, sold his pilot Echo to NBC with Reid Scott and Janina Gavinkar attached to star
Rowan Wheeler
Grand Prize Feature Winner 2016
Signed with UTA
Alexis Perkins
Grand Prize Feature Winner 2016
Signed with Stagecoach Entertainment and agent David Rubin at Gersh
Matt Katzenberger
Category Winner 2016
Signed with Entertainment Lab
Julia Cooperman
Category Winner 2016
Staffed on USA Network’s Colony
Paul Jarnagin
Top-5 2016
Signed with Universal Writers Management
Nick Watson
Quarter-Finalist 2015
Signed with Abrams Artists Agency, staffed on the animated sitcom Final Space for TBS.
GW Freund & Daniel Bonjour
Grand Prize Feature Winners 2015
Signed with Natalie Covault of Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Eric Buchman
Grand Prize TV Winner 2015
Signed with Mitch Solomon at Magnet Management and continues to write for NBC’s Blindspot and has since been promoted to co-producer
Paula Sabbaga
Category Winner 2015
Signed with Brian Spink of REALM, staffed on ABC’s Nashville, the CW’s The Messengers, Freeform’s Guilt, and was the writer’s assistant on CW’s The 100
Aadip Desai
Category Winner 2015
Signed Good Fear, 2019 ABC/Disney Fellow and staff writer on The Goldbergs
Joseph Greenberg
Category Winner 2014
Sold his script Man Alive to 20th Century Fox for Noah Hawley of Fargo to direct. Man Alive also made the 2016 Black List
James Barclay
Top-5 2014
Signed with Magnet Management
Derek Asaff
Category Winner 2014
Signed with Derrick Eppich of Lee Stobby Entertainment
Peter Wulff
Category Winner 2014
Signed with Jeff Portnoy of Bellevue Productions
Nicholas Anthony
Category Winner 2014
Hired as a writer for CBS’ The Inspectors
Joe McClean
2014 Quarterfinalist in Thriller/Horror for Viral
Joe is currently producing his script Viral for York Films with Blair Underwood attached to direct and Sarah Silverman attached to star.