Christian Jordan Grier & Dane Styler

Christian Jordan Grier (he/him) is a screenwriter raised in a family that operates multiple funeral homes throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, an upbringing that continues to shape his fascination with intimacy, identity, and the systems people build to survive. He began his career at Guillermo del Toro's Mirada Studios before being mentored by television producer Janine Sherman Barrois and later graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2015. His short film "Sugar" played alongside the critically acclaimed "Tangerine", while his follow-up short film "Goodbye Charm City" was named one of the Top 20 Short Films at the American Black Film Festival and later secured distribution through Gravitas Ventures under Amazon Prime and Streampix. Grier was later staffed on OWN's THE KINGS OF NAPA and ABC's THE ROOKIE: FEDS, and was selected as a mentee in the WGA LGBTQ+ TV Writers Mentorship Program under writer-producer Matthew J. Lieberman.

Dane Styler (he/him) is the writer of the festival award-winning feature film IN THE LIFE OF MUSIC and episodes of the animated adventure show POWER PLAYERS. Once a fighter, schoolteacher, journalist, playwright-director, and even corpse courier, he ultimately found his voice as a gay, autistic storyteller with a master’s in mythology and cultural psychology. Now, he edits comics and develops original projects for film and television. In his spare time, he bookbinds in his home studio and plays fetch with his youngest cat.