Cinema and Media
Oberlin Screenwriters Intensive 2024
2024 OSI Mentors and Fellows at the Apollo Theater in Oberlin
Photo credit: Jacob Strauss
Over Winter Term, six mentors and eight fellows gathered for three days of group intensives, mentoring sessions, panels and screenings. OSI is dedicated to nurturing distinctive voices in both features and television.
OSI 2024 Fellows
Griffin Burns - Senior Skip Day (Screenplay): A book-smart athlete and a street-smart stoner form an unlikely bond as they attempt to salvage their grade’s senior skip day.
Nathan Krasner - rarer monsters (Teleplay): A troubled youth gets caught up in the middle of a Philly Police crime ring. Isaiah, a boy who suffers from delusions may be Philadelphia’s only hope for revealing the ancient evils lurking below the surface in the City of Brotherly Love.
Quinn Neubert - Falter (Teleplay): After the abduction of Shelby Farmer is ruled a run-away case by the local authorities, her friends decide to investigate her disappearance on their own, inadvertently uncovering the strange, supernatural happenings of their hometown.
Laura Nuckols - Anathema (Screenplay): In a post-post-apocalyptic North America, the last monk of an ancient order must find a successor to carry on his creed: nuclear waste is dangerous, and its secret location must be defended against any incursion.
Alex Tamaki - Armistice Day (Screenplay): A historically-informed spy thriller in which a shell-shocked soldier is recruited to stop a plot to kill multiple world leaders as they sign the cease-fire that will end World War I.
Nesaru Tchaas - White Rabbits (Screenplay): The saga of two families hinging on a racist murder. An investigation ensues as the families of perpetrator and victim create the existential meaning of this hate crime.
Jane Wickline - The House Friend (Teleplay): Upon learning that her dad’s 28 year old girlfriend is pregnant, recent grad Georgie begins a secret relationship with the young woman they hire to look after the eventual baby.
Claire Wong - MADEIRA (Teleplay): A vengeful siren must kill the man who has outrun her for decades so she can return to the ocean, but the strange desert town she tracks him to is more than she bargained for.
Mentor Bios
Michele and Kieran Mulroney
Michele and Kieran Mulroney are Los Angeles based writer/directors with over 25 years experience in the industry. They are alumni of the 2004 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs where they developed their debut feature Paper Man, starring Emma Stone, Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow and Kieran Culkin.
Writing credits include Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, and Power Rangers. Current projects include Big Thunder Mountain for Disney, Land of the Lost for Netflix and Blockbuster for Disney. They are casting their second feature directing project Fox Hills with Berlanti-Schechter.
They also have two TV pilots in active development: Cloisterf**k with Entertainment 360 and The Rec with Dare to Be Great.
Kieran is a graduate of Columbia University. Michele graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London.
Michele is the Vice President of the WGA West.
Julian Breece
Julian Breece is an award-winning writer-director whose work crosses film and TV. Notably, Breece wrote the screenplay for the Netflix film Rustin about gay Civil Rights strategist Bayard Rustin and the 1963 March on Washington. He co-wrote the Emmy-nominated Netflix series When They See Us and recently penned the screenplay for Fox Searchlight's forthcoming Alvin Ailey biopic, which will be helmed by Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins. Breece is a consulting producer on Lee Daniels' Sammy Davis Jr. limited series at Hulu, and he’s served as a writer and producer on such critically acclaimed series as Amazon’s Harlem and Hulu’s The First.
Allison Schroeder
Allison Schroeder is an Academy Award, Writers Guild of America and BAFTA-nominated writer for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Hidden Figures. Her other credits include the recent Heart of Stone with Gal Gadot, Frozen 2 and Christopher Robin. She’s currently in development on other projects at Skydance, Amazon, and Netflix. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from University of Southern California.
Aïda Mashaka Croal
Aïda Mashaka Croal was born in Vancouver, B.C., and raised in Surrey and Georgetown, Guyana. The Guyanese-Canadian playwright and screenwriter received her BA from Stanford University and her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
An award-winning playwright, she began her TV career writing for ABC’s One Life to Live for which she won a Daytime Emmy. She has since written for Syfy (Sanctuary), Cartoon Network (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), AMC (Turn: Washington’s Spies), Netflix (Marvel’s Luke Cage and Jessica Jones) and Amazon (Outer Range). She was a co-showrunner for Y: The Last Man at FX. In addition, she has won a Saturn Award and been nominated for a Peabody Award.
Aïda is currently writing a pair of feature films – one for Netflix and the other for Universal Pictures.
David Slack
After beginning his career in animation on shows like Jackie Chan Adventures and Teen Titans, David made the leap from cartoons to Law & Order. Since then, he has served as a Writer/Producer on shows like Person of Interest, Lie to Me, In Plain Sight, and MacGyver. He created APB for Fox and wrote the series guide for Netflix’s Dark Crystal. Most recently, he worked on Seasons 4 and 5 of Magnum P.I.