Like the best nannies, we have some of the best references and credits around, as professional script analysts who have been working in Hollywood for over 15 years.

JOANNE LAMMERS

Since 1990, Joanne has been a freelance story analyst and script consultant. She has worked for many top production companies, including Bedford Falls, Morgan Creek, Geffen Films, Sherry Lansing, and TNT. For the past twelve years, she has read at Castle Rock Entertainment. She also currently reads for Participant Productions. She has read for several contests including the AFI TV Writers Workshop, and has served as a judge in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards since 1996.

Joanne began her career in development after receiving a degree in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas. She worked for several years as a story editor and creative executive at A&M films, a division of A&M Records.

With her husband, Greg Beal, Joanne has conducted film seminars across the country, including CineStory, the Austin Film Festival, Film Arts S.F. and the Northwest Screenwriters Guild.

KATHY MCCULLOUGH

Kathy has worked as a story analyst for over fifteen years, and has read scripts and/or provided story notes for Miramax, Imagine Films, Morgan Creek Entertainment, Orion Pictures, Jersey Films, Fox Broadcasting, CBS, Turner Network Television, Hearst Entertainment, the Nicholl Fellowship, the American Film Institute Writers Workshops, and the Sundance Screenwriters Laboratory, among others. She currently reads for Walden Media, Participant Productions, Castle Rock Entertainment, and HBO Films.

Kathy is also a professional screenwriter, with a degree in Screenwriting/Directing from Columbia University, where she studied under Milos Forman. Kathy has written for the Nickelodeon show "THE WILD THORNBERRYS" and she won the best screenplay award at the Austin Screenwriting Conference. Her winning script was later purchased by Universal Studios, and she has had several other screenplays optioned.

During their careers, Joanne and Kathy have written coverage or notes on material penned by such writers as Wes Anderson, Alice Arlen, Paul Attanasio, Alan Ball, Ron Bass, Frank Darabont, Pete Dexter, Nora Ephron, Akiva Goldsman, William Goldman, John Grisham, Amy Heckerling, Winnie Holtzman, Charlie Kaufman, Nicholas Kazan, Stephen King, David Koepp, Ehren Kruger, Spike Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Richard Linklater, Christopher McQuarrie, Frank Pierson, Richard Price, Harold Ramis, Mike Rich, Scott Rosenberg, Terry Rossio & Ted Elliot, Danny Rubin, John Sayles, Paul Schrader, Susan Shilliday, M. Night Shyamalan, Ed Solomon, Aaron Sorkin, Nicholas Sparks, Robin Swicord, Robert Towne, Scott Turow, David Twohy, Steve Zaillian and many others.