Zollar, a disabled comedian, writer and showrunner, has worked on Hulu’s limited series Mike, Young Love and Netflix’s animated series Agent King, in addition to being one of the co-creators and stars of Netflix’s Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show. Zollar has also been named the Inevitable Foundation x Caring Across Generations Care Award winner, granting her additional support and access to ongoing script and development consulting services specifically with the Caring Across Generations team. Maline, an actor-writer-director and former castmember of the CBS Diversity Showcase, Groundlings Sunday Company and three-year UCB house sketch, has developed a half-hour comedy with Sony and wrote for the upcoming season of Marvel’s Loki. Lloyd is a comedy writer with more than 12 years of experience writing network sitcoms and family comedies, including The War At Home, Shake It Up, KC Undercover and The Barbarian and The Troll. Simmons, Daniel Diemer ( The Half Of It) and Philip Ettinger ( First Reformed). O’Donnell is a Korean-American writer and director who is low vision/legally blind and has an upcoming feature Little Brother starring J.K. Legere is a Cuban-American drama writer who has written for multiple network and streaming shows, including NBC’s New Amsterdam, with her episode “Give Me a Sign” exploring language deprivation issues that denying Deaf children sign language can cause. As far as we know, this is the first program ever to allow disabled writers to option IP and help them along in that process.” “The money can also be used to option IP, and that’s an area where we think disabled writers specifically are incredibly disenfranchised in from an access and financial resources perspective. “These $5,000 grants can be used for anything from professional development, such as career coaching or script analysis, to work-from-home setups, which for this audience is super important,” Inevitable Foundation co-founder Richie Siegel tells The Hollywood Reporter.

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