Michael Moreci is a screenwriter and bestselling comics author. His award-winning debut feature film, Revealer, premiered on Shudder in the summer of 2022. His second feature, Holiday Hold-Up, a crime comedy that Moreci co-directed/wrote, was released in 2024. In the comics space, Moreci is the creator of the acclaimed gothic horror series The Plot, the werewolf drama Curse, the existential space opera Wasted Space, and the smash-hit sword-and-sorcery series Barbaric. He’s also written for numerous legendary characters and properties, including Star Wars, Rick and Morty, Batman, Stranger Things, and more, and he co-hosts The Filmographers Podcast.
Cecil Castellucci is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade, The Changing Girl, Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, Soupy Leaves Home, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star, Female Furies and Odd Duck. In 2015 they co-authored Star Wars Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She has also written Batgirl for DC Comics. Their newest graphic novel is Shifting Earth out on Dark Horse Comics. Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and many other anthologies. In a former life, she was known as Cecil Seaskull in the ‘90s indie band Nerdy Girl. She has written three opera librettos Les Aventures de Madame Merveille (World Premiere in 2010) Hockey Noir: The Opera (World Premiere 2018) and Metternich! The Language of Flowers (World Premiere 2021). They are the former Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books. Their pandemic projects have been rewatching every Disney film in order and researching a British World War I soldier. They live in Los Angeles and spend time Montreal.
Amanda Deibert’s comic book writing includes Rocket and Groot: The Hunt for Star-Lord and Rocket and Groot: Tales of Terror for Marvel and Scholastic books, Star Wars Hyperspace Stories for Dark Horse, DC Super Hero Girls, Batman and Scooby-Doo, Harley Quinn Romances, DC’s the Doomed and the Damned, Teen Titans Go!, Batman And Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman Agent of Peace, Wonderful Women of the World, Wonder Woman ’77, and work in Love is Love (NY Times #1 bestseller) for DC Comics, Darkwing Duck and Red Sonja Black, White and Red for Dynamite, Work for a Million for Penguin Random House’s McClelland & Stewart and John Carpenter’s Tales for HalloweenNight volumes 2-10 and Death Mask for Storm King comics.Amanda’s television writing includes animated series Hot Wheels: Let’s Race, He-Man and The Masters of the Universe, various variety shows for CBS, SyFy, and Hulu, and four years as the writer for former Vice President Al Gore’s annual climate broadcast, 24 Hours of Reality.
