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ROSEMARY SERLUCA

Rosemary Serluca, Associate Manager, New York, NY, brings her unique experience to AEI working as a writer, TV producer, and on camera personality. She is a lifetime student of spirituality, psychology, and holistic studies and specializes in using the written word as a powerful healing modality.

She has published in The Christian Science Monitor, New York Spirit, Women's News, and many others. Her personal essay, "Pass the Pasta Please" is featured in the anthology Take Two - "They're Small.

Her play, Broken Promises, was produced at the Theatre Studio, (NY) and she is currently adapting it into a novel.

She has produced numerous TV and radio commercials, promotions, and videos for such clients as AT&T, Revlon, Nickelodeon, Procter & Gamble, NBC's Dateline and worked on the children's TV series, The Great Space Coaster.

She has appeared as a guest expert on the TV shows Iyanla, (ABC) and Ask E. Jean, (America's Talking,) speaking on reuniting and healing relationships with lost/estranged loved ones and has wide experience working as an actor and voice over artist in theatre, television and radio.

Rosemary is a graduate of New York University (NY) with a B.F.A. Film/Television. She has studied screenwriting at Playwright's Horizon (NY), acting at HB Studios (NY) and is a recipient of a writing fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a graduate of the IM School of Healing Arts (NY) and is a certified energy healer. Memberships include Dramatists Guild, Screen Actors Guild, NYWIFT, and NWU.

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MARISA D'VARI

Marisa D'Vari is a former entertainment industry executive (TriStar, MGM) who started her career in the motion picture literary department of International Creative Management.

Now the President of Deg.Com Communications in Boston, she uses techniques developed while working with writers to empower entrepreneurs, executives, and corporations through media positioning and presentation skills.

A national speaker and author of five books, D'Vari has conducted keynote speeches and workshops for the Institute of Management Consultants, the American Society of Association Executives, National Speakers Association, Boston Security Analysts Society, and Harvard University and a wide variety of literary and screenwriting associations and conferences.

D'Vari is the author of Script Magic: Subconscious Techniques to Conquer Writer's Block (2000) and eagerly anticipated book Creating Characters: Let Them Whisper Their Secrets (Winter, 2005 Michael Wiese Productions). This book features a companion site with additional articles at HollywoodScreenwriter.

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TOBE A. ROBERTS

Tobe A. Roberts IV is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) Graduate Film Program. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1996 for Film Producing and Screenwriting. Tobe entered Graduate School as one of the top six applicants to spearhead the first TV & Film Producers Training Program of the University, and had graduated as one of the top three Producers within the department. During his time there, he had been awarded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Producers Award and Eastman Kodak Grant in 1996.

Since then, he has moved on to gain experience at Paramount Pictures East Coast Publicity, and eventually became co-producer of a New York based video production company specializing in Indigenous programming.

As an NYU undergrad, Tobe's major was East Asian studies with a concentration in Japanese studies. As an accomplished martial artist of several systems since the age of nine, he also lends his eclectic expertise, knowledge of Eastern Combat Arts and philosophy to all of his stories. As a screenwriter, Tobe became a finalist in the Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Program in 2007.

Tobe was also an instructor in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ sharing his knowledge to aspiring filmmakers. In addition, he has worked with a NYC/CA based VFX company- Luminetik in several positions on commercial and film projects.

At present, Tobe along with his partner, Gypsie Runningcloud, (who is also a TSOA alum), had established Wondrous Sky Entertainment, LLC, a film company specializing in strong evocative storytelling with influences from around the world. Tobe also serves as East Coast Editor for the international film webzine, Cinema Without Borders

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JEFF RIVERA

Jeff Riverais the founder of www.GumboWriters.com and is one of the most sought after Black-American speakers on New Media and Publishing.

Jeff is an expert on New Media and is on the cutting edge of the new digital direction of publishing. He is a regular columnist for Mediabistro's GalleyCat.com. He's also written for School Library Journal and is one of the stars of the new reality show, The Write Stuff.

Aside from being a published author by Warner Books/Grand Central (Forever My Lady), Jeff is the founder of GumboWriters.com which has been called "the future of publishing." He was a featured panelist for the New York Roundtable Writers Conference and a panelist for the upcoming New York Writers Union conference. Jeff has taught workshops for the Florida Writers Association and teaches on-going classes at Manhattan's New Media High School. He has appeared in the Boston Globe, on National Public Radio and Publisher's Weekly to name a few.

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