Asked by her pastor at 11 years old what she was passionate about, Rebekah Covington abandoned the good, Jesus-y answer and responded, “making people laugh.” A childhood of reading stories and performing for her adoring fan base (stuffed animals), led to an adolescence of writing stories. When the neighbor kid got a video camera, she quickly found every excuse to borrow it, and her love for film and television blossomed. She wore the hats of director, producer, and star, but always returned to her true passion for writing. While pursuing a degree in screenwriting (and a minor in law for mom and dad) from Chapman University, Rebekah got coffee for a variety of important people on several backlots. Upon graduation, she donned the completely unflattering uniform of the NBCUniversal Page Program, where she got even more coffee and had no health insurance. A Chicago-native, Rebekah now lives in Los Angeles, where she still cheers on the Chicago Cubs and tells anyone who will listen that ketchup does not belong on a hot dog. Rebekah was a quarter-finalist for NBC’s Writers on the Verge Program in 2018 and the Jury Award winner for her original pilot at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in 2019.

Matthew Irving Epstein is a writer and producer, known for Cuddle Party (2016), Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020) and Me.N.A. (2020).

Matt Pelfrey’s plays have been produced around the country at theaters such as Artists Rep (Portland, OR), Furious Theatre Co. (LA), Moving Arts (LA), Pittsburgh Playwrights, The Shattered Globe (CHI), and the Actors Theatre of Louisville during the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is the winner of the Actor’s Theater of Louisville’s Heideman Award, a Backstage Garland Award for playwriting and was nominated for an LA WEEKLY playwriting award and a Los Angeles Ovation award. His adaptation of John Ball’s IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was produced around the country. His latest play, THE ALLIGATOR GOSPELS, was developed at the 2020 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. His plays are available from Original Works Publishing, Broadway Play Publishing, and Samuel French. He worked as a staff writer on the MTV drama SKINS and wrote, produced, and directed webisodes and content for the SKINS/MTV website. His screenplay SURVIVALISM was included on the 2011 Blood List, an industry-generated list of the favorite unproduced horror and thriller scripts in Hollywood. His screenplay, HARVEST CREEK, sold to director Dayyan Eng and is being developed for production in China. He received his BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and his Master in Fine Arts in Playwriting from U.C.L.A. He is the Program Director for Screen & Stage writing at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA.