Guest Speakers
Learn from the best creative minds and industry leaders.
New York Times Bestselling Author, Lessons in Chemistry
Writer and director, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull
Emmy winning writer and executive producer, The Bear
Pulitzer Prize, Doubt; Academy Award, Moonstruck
President Emeritus, Producers Guild of America
New York Times Bestselling Author, The Many Lives of Mama Love
President Emeritus, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
New York Times Bestselling Author, The Henna Artist
Chairman, Motion Picture Corporation of America
Author, Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me from Myself
Producer, The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
Songwriter, multiple Grammy winner and Oscar winner
Essayist and former editor on Interview magazine
Writer and Co-Creator, Friends and Grace and Frankie
Screenwriter, There’s Something About Mary
Academy Award-Nominated Writer Pirates of the Caribbean
TV Writing Veteran, Showrunner, and Author of A Paper Orchestra
President, Denise Di Novi Productions
Academy Award Winner, Best Picture, Nomadland
New York Times Bestselling author, Maid
Writer-director, Low Tide, and The Bomb
Producer, Director, and Screenwriter, Hocus Pocus, and Stephen King's Bag of Bones
Author, Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love, a Son’s Perseverance, and Dreaming Big
Literary Agent, Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc.
Screenwriter, Dumb and Dumber
Screenwriter, The Christmas Card
International bestselling author, The Hundred Foot Journey
Literary Agent, Young Adults
Literary Agent, Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc.
Co-Director, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Music supervisor, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Gilmore Girls
Oscar-nominated composer and conductor
Co-Director, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
NYT Bestselling author, Blow Your House Down
Literary Agent, Andy Ross Literary Agency
Author, Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Screenwriter, Christmas on Cherry Lane
Writer-Director, Disney’s Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Screenwriter, The Housewives of the Northpole
Editor, Harper Collins
New York Times Bestselling Author, Before We Were Yours
New York Times Bestselling Author, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
International Bestselling Author, Across the Winding River
Director of international blockbuster, Grease
NYT bestselling author, The Wedding Veil
Author, The Virginia Mysteries
NYT Bestselling author, All the Missing Girls
Author, untitled manifestation project from Penguin Random House 2025
USA Today bestselling author, The Vibrant Years
Publicist for authors, Taeckens Marketing and PR
Author, His Perfect Partner
