Monday Night Mixer at The Roosevelt

industry to meet! 
Music by DJ Vanessa Fu'ne.

First Week Guest:
Jessica Sharzer made her feature writing and directing debut with SPEAK, starring Kristen Stewart and Steve Zahn. It premiered at Sundance in 2004 and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and a Directors Guild Award. She has since developed feature films for Universal, HBO, MTV, Fox and Lionsgate. She wrote the 2016 feature film NERVE, starring Dave Franco and Emma Roberts. Ms. Sharzer adapted the novel A SIMPLE FAVOR for director Paul Feig currently in production. In television, Ms. Sharzer spent four seasons as a writer-producer on the acclaimed FX series AMERICAN HORROR STORY. She wrote the three-hour musical DIRTY DANCING which aired in May 2017 on ABC. Ms. Sharzer has developed drama pilots for CBS, FOX, MTV and ABC networks.  She is currently writing a Marvel movie for Sony Studios and developing two TV pilots with Lionsgate.  Ms. Sharzer holds an M.A. from UC Berkeley in Russian Literature and an M.F.A. in Film & Television from NYU.