Cindy Cowan is an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer who co-founded Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) in 1995. From its conception to its sale in 2000, IEG became a leading film production and foreign sales company. IEG had many successes, including an Emmy nomination for Rent-A-Kid; Emmy, Golden Globe, and People’s Choice nominations for If These Walls Could Talk; the coveted United Nations Award for Savior; and four Oscar wins for Traffic. Since forming Cindy Cowan Entertainment (CCE), Cowan has produced films with various A-list talent, including Woody Harrelson, Robert DeNiro, Sir Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, and Cillian Murphy. In 2020, Cindy won an Emmy with her documentary Miracle on 42nd Street. Her latest film, CLEANER, Directed by Martin Campbell, starring Clive Owen and Daisy Ridley was just released theatrically. Before that, she produced The Haunting in Wicker Park for Sony starring Jamie Campbell Bower and Erin Moriarty. Cindy was recently presented with the Woman of the Year award by WIN (Woman’s Image Network), as well as Humanitarian of the Year by the Hollywood Film Festival.

Steve Kaplan is one of the industry’s most sought-after experts on comedy. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve Kaplan created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He has served as a consultant to such companies and organizations as Dreamworks, Disney Animation, HBO, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, Aardman Animation, and others. His book, The Hidden Tools of Comedy and The Comic Hero’s Journey have been best sellers on Amazon and Kindle, and have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and French. He is currently working on a new book on wrting comedy for TV.

Myiea Coy is an EMMY award-winning Executive Producer and writer known for Executive producing Lizzo’s Watch Out for The Big GRRRLs for Amazon Prime; she also previously served as Vice President of Development at Bunim Murray Productions, where she co-developed the animated PBS special “The Day You Begin”, and served as Executive Producer on the Facebook Watch series “Collab Crib” and produced ‘Real World Homecoming: New York” for Paramount +. With a passion for amplifying voices of color behind the camera, she also held the position of DE&I Co-Chair while at BMP under the Banijay umbrella and, prior to that, held the VP of Development position at MACRO Studios under the leadership of Charles D. King.