MEET OUR 2025 TV CONTEST DIVISION WINNERS

We’re thrilled to introduce our TV Contest division winners of the 2025 TV Retreat & Fellowship competition. These writers placed first in their respective divisions of Original Comedy, Original Drama, and Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Congratulations to them all!

(Pictured above, from left to right: Pamela Hamer, Original Comedy Division winner and TV Fellowship winner; Megan Green, Original Drama Division winner; and William McGhee, Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy Division winner.)

Pamela Hamer – Original Comedy Division Winner & TV Fellowship Winner

In Pamela Hamer’s Original Comedy Division and TV Fellowship winning TV pilot, YOUR BIGGEST FAN, a one-night stand between an exhausted middle-aged mom and the world’s biggest pop star threatens to blow up the lives they’ve carefully created.

Pamela Hamer is an emerging screenwriter and clinical psychologist who lives in Denver by way of New York City.

Pamela’s fascination with other people’s stories has always drawn her to occupations that allow her to be professionally nosy, first in journalism at Newsweek magazine where she edited a popular personal essay column, then as a clinical psychologist in settings as varied as the county jail, an intensive care unit, and private practice, and now as a screenwriter.

She has studied the craft of screenwriting at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop with alumni of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television program, and improv at the Bovine School of Improv. She is passionate about telling stories that center and celebrate the experiences of funny, messy, middle-aged women.

Mostly, though, she’s relieved to have found a line of work where her need to get a laugh is considered an asset.

Megan Green – Original Drama Division Winner

In Megan Green’s Original Drama Division winning TV pilot, DANNI’S HARD DRIVE, tiring of her career as an exotic dancer, Danni Ashe builds her own erotica site, launching her to stardom and making her one of the most successful internet entrepreneurs of the mid-1990’s dot-com boom. DANNI’S HARD DRIVE is based on the true story of the only woman to appear on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine

Megan Green grew up in suburban San Diego with a bipolar dad who helped her appreciate complicated characters from an early age. She writes female-forward, character-driven dramas about complex women who embrace their power during crisis.

While earning her M.F.A. from U.C.L.A., her thesis feature, THE FAMILY HARVEST, won their Screenwriters Showcase competition and was later developed with Atlas Entertainment. Her feature biopic drama, ELEANOR & JACK, has ranked in the top 1% of projects on Coverfly and was a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist twice, once placing in the top 50 out of 7,831 scripts. ONLY HUMANS, the indie drama feature she co-wrote, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival.

Megan’s work has been recognized by the the Austin Film Festival, Screencraft, Stowe Story Labs, Sundance Labs, and the Coverfly/Act Two mentorship program.

She lives in Los Angeles with her two rescue dogs and one rescue husband.

William McGhee – Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy Division Winner

In William McGhee’s Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy Division winning TV pilot, THE SIBERIA PROJECT, a disgraced scientist seeks redemption by joining a remote, top-secret government lab that studies a mysterious artifact…only to find it’s a rundown, underfunded exile staffed by bickering rivals who can’t find work anywhere else.

William McGhee is a gay and multiracial writer who focuses on genre dramas and dramedies about lost innocence, where characters can’t go home again. He grew up outside Chicago before studying film at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Since moving to Los Angeles, he’s worked as a development assistant in features and animation. He has subsequently been a showrunner’s assistant in both drama and comedy rooms, supporting showrunners who were former writers of SUCCESSION, BETTER CALL SAUL, RICK & MORTY, and BOJACK HORSEMAN.

McGhee loves outsider protagonists who fight for agency in their own stories. He’s drawn to elaborate world-building, dysfunctional ensembles, and blended genres. In his spare time, he plays (poorly) in a gay dodgeball league.