Actors

2011 NBC SCENE SHOWCASE ACTORS

Writers

OUR 2011-2012 WRITERS ON THE VERGE

Writers

DEBBY WOLFE

DEBBY WOLFE grew up in the swampy suburbs of South Florida.  A graduate of the University of Central Florida film school, her award winning short films have screened in festivals worldwide, including Tribeca, NBC Universal Short Cuts, the BET Urbanworld Film Festival, and the HBO NYC Latino Film Festival.  In digital media, Debby wrote and directed the teen advice series GirlTalk, which became one of the most downloaded podcasts on iTunes Kids and Family, and wrote and produced an AT&T sponsored series starring Raven-Symone for MRC.  As a Story Producer for reality television, Debby has worked on projects for CBS, Fox, Discovery, and Current TV.  With her feature screenplays, she has been a finalist for the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.  She has participated in the HBO NALIP Latino Writers Lab, directed scenes for the NBC Universal Diversity Showcase, and was recently selected for NBC Universal's Writers on the Verge program. In between writing and watching TV, Debby's favorite pastimes include eating pupusas, wearing pajamas, and playing with her pet rabbit - sometimes simultaneously.

Writers

OMAR PONCE

OMAR PONCE was born in Los Angeles, raised in northern Mexico and nurtured by cable TV. He once put comics legend Stan Lee to sleep when he pitched him the digital motion comic "Time Jumper" and still got the gig.
He has rapped in Spanish radio commercials for the "Homie-style" Chicken Filet from Jack in the Box.
He once recited a lovely poem about his mother in front of his entire elementary school and it wasn't even Mother's Day.
He wrote a USA Today, full-page advert for Honda that featured phrases such as "off the necklace", "ridonkulous" and "that's how momma makes biscuits."
He is a proud graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the Writers Boot Camp Think Tank program and the National Hispanic Media Council's Writers Program.
He is currently in the NBC's Writers On The Verge writing program with a "Community" spec about the undeniable sexiness of hairy Latino men.
Above all else, Omar Ponce can actually teach you how to Dougie.

Writers

ISAAC GONZALEZ

ISAAC GONZALEZ, the child of Mexican immigrants, was born and raised on the sun-drenched shores of Oceanside, California.  A casualty of the surf culture, he was able to bribe his way into UCLA "earning" a degree in Mass Communications.  Since graduating, Isaac has studied improv at the Groundlings Theatre, performed his unique blend of stand up comedy all over Los Angeles, and written several screenplays, pilots, and TV specs.  He dreams of becoming a sitcom writer so he can deliver warm smiles to audiences across the globe (and make lots of cheese $$$).  When not writing, you can find him in Venice drinking beers (plural) and commiserating with the local hobo community.

Writers

SETH COHEN & AMY POCHA

SETH COHEN & AMY POCHA are a perfectly mis-matched duo. Amy is a first generation East Indian who grew up in Northern California, where she spent her weekends training to be a circus equestrian -- freaking her parents out. Seth grew up a Boston-bred hoodlum, who spent his weekends running from the cops -- freaking his parents out.  Upon meeting, the duo immediately clashed and entered an East Coast / West Coast rap battle that lasted decades. After blood was shed in the streets of Valley Village, they decided to put down their mics and pick up their pens. Working as one, Amy and Seth sold their first feature to the Walt Disney Company.  From there, they developed films for comedians like Katt Williams, created an animated short featured on FUNNY OR DIE, and were commissioned to write youth driven viral marketing for 20th Century Fox (creating copy for comedians like: Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Joel McHale). When these two are not trying to make each other laugh, they're feeding their passion for television... and feeding their bellies with carbohydrates. Seriously, they love snacking. It's kinda freaking their parents out.
Manager: Langley Perer and Emily Rose at Mosaic.

Writers

DENNIS SALDUA

DENNIS SALDUA is a writer with a keen sense of story and a meticulous attention to character.  Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, just outside of LA, he developed a marginally unhealthy obsession with TV.  By the time college came around, he decided to study Biology.  Naturally.  Years later, armed with a degree and the realization that he's been living in vocational denial, Dennis moved to LA to write for TV.  After starting as a PA and rising to the story editor position on some of the most mediocre reality programming to ever hit the small screen, Dennis crossed over into scripted TV, spending three seasons on CBS' MEDIUM.  Additionally, he was selected for the Spring NAMIC Writers Workshop, wrote for the 2011 NBC Scene Showcase, and had an original pilot and teleplay advance in the 2011 Austin Film Festival writers' competition.  Dennis currently works on the USA network's upcoming buddy cop drama, COMMON LAW.  He loves tacos. 

Writers

NICEOLE LEVY

After a childhood spent in a military town that masqueraded as Middle Of Nowhere, California, Niceole escaped to the bright lights of Los Angeles.  While studying acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she realized her true love was writing stories, not playing them out.  And so she made her way through her undergrad years as a creative writing major at USC while working as a police dispatcher, and then tackled life on a graveyard newswire service while picking up her Master of Professional Writing, also from USC.  Having recently completed the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, where she worked with executives Stacey Adams and Stacey Silverman, Niceole has several drama specs and two original pilots under her belt and is notorious for adding two ideas to her "pending" file for every one she finishes.  And she always has time for football... even on deadline.

Writers

RYAN REGE HARRIS

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ryan graduated from California State University, Chico after studying Media Arts and Anthropology.  Ryan's work in television has taken him from the deserts of the Middle East as a Producer for the Discovery Channel, to the wilds of Burbank as a Writers' Assistant and Script Coordinator on several prime-time network series.  He has won numerous TV writing competitions and has been a two-time teleplay finalist at the Austin Film Festival and semi-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship. Most recently he developed a psychological thriller feature for Twisted Pictures and a drama pilot for Universal Cable Productions.  When not writing, he can be found surfing (badly) or trying to keep up with his amazing marathon-running, movie-animating fiancée.
Managers: Brad Kaplan and Evan Corday at Evolution Management

Writers

BRIAN ANTHONY

BRIAN ANTHONY was born and raised in the "River City" of Sacramento, CA. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2001, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.  Over the next 9 years he served as both a Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret, travelling to all sorts of fun and wonderful destinations around the world (including Iraq and Afghanistan...). Enjoying some of these places so much, he came back several times for "return" trips. During his final years in the military, spurred on by a borderline unhealthy obsession with The Sopranos and a clinical addiction to NETFLIX, he developed a newfound passion for screenwriting. He left the Army in 2010, in vigorous pursuit of this passion (and a new travel agent), scribing several features, pilots, and television specs in the short time since he left the service.
Agent: Brant Rose at Brant Rose Agency.