Brought to you by the Entertainment Business School
With your host Kaia Alexander 
Calling all Writers, Directors, Producers, Hyphenates!
Exclusive Workshop With a Former Development Exec
Are you feeling discouraged by this crazy, roller-coaster business of Hollywood?
If so, you’re not alone, but you need to take action.
With the industry more competitive (and slow) than ever, the smartest thing you can do is sharpen your career skills.
Join us for
PITCHING ~ WOLFPACK NETWORKING ~ FUN!
ELEVATE HOLLYWOOD
Live!
Boost Your Career and Find Your Wolfpack
Sunday November 10th, 2024 | 9am-5pm
Live In-Person 1 Day Event
In Los Angeles
At the Illusion Magic Lounge, Santa Monica, CA
Calling all Writers, Directors, Producers, Hyphenates!
Exclusive Workshop With a Former Development Exec
Kaia is a genius. ~ Garry Shandling, comedian, creator of The Larry Sanders Show on HBO
Are you feeling discouraged by this crazy, roller-coaster business of Hollywood?
If so, you’re not alone, but you need to take action.
With the industry more competitive (and slow) than ever,
the smartest thing you can do is sharpen your career skills.
Join us for
PITCHING ~ WOLFPACK NETWORKING ~ FUN!
Make new friends with likeminded professionals who all envision a more inclusive, accessible and equitable Hollywood just like you…
Learn Imperative Career Skills for Our Changing Industry:
- Kaia’s proven Stealth Pitch technique
– With a fun hands-on workshop to practice your pitch - The 9 Hollywood Career Keys + Career-Killer Mistakes to Avoid
- How to find your wolfpack of friends and partners in film/TV
– With a fun mixer for participants to practice! - A former development exec dishes the intel: Kaia’s game-changing career secret
- Mental health tools and support for your career
- Showrunner secrets to navigating the business for writers
- The insider approach to your career from attitude to execution
Elevate your career as we elevate the industry.
This theatre is intimate and every seat is a great seat, plus there’s a lounge where you’ll make new friends after the event! Replays are available for additional purchase for event participants and anyone who can’t join us live in Los Angeles.
Your Event Line-Up
Sunday, November 10th: 9AM-5PM
Session 1: Welcome to the Wolfpack!
Session 2: Elevate Your Pitching
Learn the 4-part Stealth Pitch technique that Kaia’s students have used to sell TV shows and finance features. It makes pitching fun, buyers love it, and you never feel like you’re selling again.
with Kaia Alexander
Session 3: 9 Hollywood Career Keys to Play like a Pro
Quick grab a pen! These are the most important career skills you must develop to play like a pro, or at higher levels than you’re playing now. We show you how we teach them in EBS.
with Kaia Alexander and Kawan Glover
Session 4: PARASOMNIA Wolfpack Productions Panel
Ryan Shovey, Lauren Bancroft, Lilly Scourtis
Session 5: The 5-Point Compass
The Artist’s Guide to Elevating & Being Well in the Process
with Delina Patrice Brooks
Session 6: Chat with Showrunner Mark Blutman:
Dive into the world of writing and showrunning with the Emmy winning writer/director/producer of BOY MEETS WORLD as he reveals how to position yourself and your career for success (and a little failure, but mostly, success!)
with Kaia Alexander
Session 7: Attitude = Altitude:
There’s one thing everyone who can hire you has in common: they want to work with people who bring their best self to the job. Kawan is a 3-time brain surgery survivor, and his inspiring story and mindset will elevate your outlook.
with Kawan Glover
Session 8: Find Your Wolfpack:
Steal this playbook! Far deeper than the surface idea of networking, Kaia reveals how Oscar and Emmy winning teams are formed, and work together again and again to achieve the highest levels of the business. And so can you!
with Kaia Alexander
Followed by a Mixer in the Lounge for Mocktails and Cocktails for In-Person event participants
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Your Host
Kaia Alexander
Kaia Alexander is the CEO/founder of the Entertainment Business School, and host of the Hollywood Wolfpack podcast. She was a development executive on many major motion pictures including JUST FRIENDS (with Ryan Reynolds), PEACEFUL WARRIOR (with Nick Nolte), THE GOOD NIGHT (Gwyneth Paltrow & Penelope Cruz), and HACHI: A DOG’S TALE (with Richard Gere). She was mentored by comedian Garry Shandling. A lifelong history nerd, she’s an award-winning novelist for her book about the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria, Written in the Ashes (Harper Collins). As a writer/producer brand is badass, adventurous women. If you ever corner her at a party, be sure to ask her about her passion for surfing. She’s proud to be neurodivergent, BQ in LGBTQ
Your Wolfpack Presenters:
Mark Blutman
Writer/Producer/Director
If you know the family sitcom space, you know Emmy Award winner Mark Blutman. An accomplished and respected professional, Mark has worked on more than 325 episodes of TV during his long and successful career. Known for his work on iconic hits like Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World and So Little Time, Mark brings a wealth of experience and passion to the genre, having been nominated for six Emmy awards as well as a prestigious WGA award. He most recently worked on the Apple + series Ghostwriter for which he won his Emmy.
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Mark has also made a significant impact in features, having sold several spec screenplays
including Last Man on Earth to Playtone and Universal. He wrote and directed Spy School starring Anna Sophia Robb and Lea Thompson and his latest feature, Dare To Dream, shoots this Spring with Mark directing for Patriot Pictures. A life-long wrestling fan, Mark recently completed Arigato Tokyo, a drama centering on an aging female wrestler, who despite struggles with addiction and mental health, returns to Japan to reignite her feud with local legend Hoshi “Akachan Panda” Tokao, whose series of brutal death matches in the 90’s made them both rich and famous.
Blutman is also currently adapting best-selling YA book series Gripped… This project is a Friday Night Lights meets Euphoria, a timely story wherein opioid addiction creeps into the world of high school and college athletics. Having a mother who has suffered from mental health issues, Mark is an advocate for more MH awareness and often highlights these struggles in his work. Mark is also attached to Executive Produce and Showrun Holy Grail, a 1 hour YA drama set up at MGM with Roma Downey’s Lightworkers. He currently is developing a new multi-cam Pilot for Disney and is super happy to be back creating for the front runners in quality 4 Quad Television.
Born in New Jersey and raised in Montreal, Mark holds dual citizenship and is an accomplished and dedicated professional, who’s been fortunate to have one project organically lead to the next. He is always grateful for his opportunities and looks forward to the next challenge as he cements a proud and impactful legacy in film and TV.
Kawan Glover
Screenwriter, Author of Favor
Kawan Glover is a screenwriter, and the Chief of Business Development for the Entertainment Business School. He’s a survivor because he has lived through a stroke and three brain surgeries. Despite these hardships, he started his own company, Overcome Adversity, LLC. He is a Victory coach, public speaker, screenwriter, and author of a bestselling memoir entitled “Favor.” He has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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He is a Victory coach, public speaker, screenwriter, and author of a bestselling memoir entitled “Favor.” He has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Delina Patrice Brooks
A hyphenate whose work marries story with music and champions troubled women who save themselves. A published writer and nominee for three ISADORA DUNCAN AWARDS, Delina won in 2016 for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in “An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers” which she wrote, produced, directed, scored, choreographed, and starred in. Delina is a 2023 DISNEY WRITERS PROGRAM FINALIST
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and a RESIDENT ARTIST at THE KENNEDY CENTER, and has choreographed/danced for CHANCE THE RAPPER on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!, KANYE WEST at COACHELLA, NAS & DAMIAN MARLEY and more, and was Movement Director for “Casa de Spirits”, a play written and directed by veteran actor ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH. Her work has been commissioned/presented by YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK and many more. Since landing in Los Angeles from Oakland in 2018, she’s moonlighted as two Showrunners’ Assistants and a Director’s Assistant for shows on ABC, NBC, FOX, FREEFORM, HULU and HBO.
PARASOMNIA
about the production
Ryan Shovey, writer/director
Lauren Bancroft, producer
Lilly Scourtis, producer
What People Are Saying
Refund Policy:
If the event is cancelled, all participants will be refunded in full to the original payment method. Attendees can request refunds until November 6th. Refunds and ticket transfers are handled on a case-by-case basis, please email us for information
Recordings Access:
If you purchase the event recordings note that this is not a live-stream event, and your purchase will be made available once the recordings are edited and available in the event portal. You will be contacted when they are ready.
Parking:
Garage: Next door to Magic Illusion Lounge is an all-day parking structure, with plenty of parking.
Food:
Dining Nearby:
Mixt
Pokaii
Bruxie
Benihana
Rita’s Gate of India
Joe’s Pizza
Meat on Ocean
Cava
Elephanté
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