Melessa Y. Sargent

President of The Scriptwriters Network, founded in 1986, which is an educational, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Non-Profit, volunteer-driven organization created by writers for writers and industry professionals. The Network serves its members by providing educational programming, enhancing their awareness of the realities of the business, developing access and opportunity through alliances with industry professionals, and furthering the cause and quality of writing in the entertainment industry.

We bring in entertainment professionals to speak and teach on the art, craft and business of script writing for TV, features and new media.

Whether you are a filmmaker, a screenwriter, a television scriptwriter or involved in screenwriting for non-traditional media, we help take your writing to the next level.

Our membership is as varied as our guest speaker list, which includes Movie Screenwriters, Showrunners, Executive Producers, Directors, Television Writers, Video Game & Comic Book Writers, Novelists, Actors, Editors, Agents, Managers, Professors, Career Experts, Accountants, and many more.

As President and CEO of The Scriptwriters Network Foundation, Inc., aka Scriptwriters Network (SWN), Melessa Y. Sargent’s goal is to guide the organization to realize its full potential as the premier educational organization and resource for writers in the industry.

She helms a network that values working with new and upcoming, as well as experienced talents and focuses on the importance that it plays for its production company members.

Melessa’s experience is multi-faceted. She was trained as a dancer in ballet, tap and jazz, and as a print model for fashion magazines. A regional winner of Star Search (Singing), Melessa has experience both behind and in front of the camera, acting in commercials and dramatic roles. She has also produced and written the following TV shows: Missing: Have You Seen Me?, Our Mysterious Island, and Pictures. Melessa has completed several feature and TV scripts, including a family drama and a TV pilot.

For more info on Melessa's volunteerism, leadership experience and mission with SWN, please visit 'A Word From The President' here: