The outfit is founded by Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska, both with personal connections to physical and developmental disabilities. With their support of disabled writers, the duo are looking to close theA recent report on the television writing landscape from the Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity stated that 93% of disabled writers surveyed said they were the only disabled person on staff, and 97% of writing rooms had no upper-level disabled writers.
Moore lives with Multiple Sclerosis and has earned cum laude degrees from Princeton University, UC Berkeley, Stanford Law School, and UCLA Extension. In 2020, she quit a successful job as the first Black lead executive at Dolby to become a full-time screenwriter. She has written for Hulu’s “The Bold Type” and Netflix series “Sweet Magnolias.”
Feeney is a Deaf screenwriter who is fluent in English and American Sign Language. She earned a master’s degree in screenwriting from Leeds Beckett University in the U.K. and a certificate in television writing from UCLA Extension. Feeney was a creative consultant on CBS’ “CSI:NY” and ASL consultant on Freeform’s “Switched At Birth.”
The Inevitable Foundation is informed by Torelli-Pedevska’s work as screenwriter with a focus on stories with disabled characters, and Siegel’s family connections to disability.
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