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EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has selected nan 4 Fellows for its 2026 Writers Incubator, an inaugural designed to nurture and supply support to 4 writers of each genres, including comedy, drama and animation.
Selected from complete 1,200 submissions, Mateo Gomez, Isa Moon, Chiara Motley and Brandy E. Palmer person been named arsenic nan 2026 FWI Fellows.
Now successful its 5th year, nan Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator inaugural is simply a rigorous three-month shop focused connected reworking material, honing penning skills, master improvement and an exploration of nan media and intermezo business. Fellows besides are provided one-on-one mentorship opportunities pinch Fox executives and staffed writers.
Following successful completion of nan FWI, Fellows will person nan opportunity to activity crossed bid produced by Fox Entertainment’s in-house accumulation portion Fox Entertainment Studios and Emmy-winning animation workplace Bento Box Entertainment. Previous fellows person been staffed connected Fox series, including Going Dutch, Animal Control and Rescue: HI-Surf.
“The Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator continues to beryllium an unthinkable opportunity to observe and support immoderate of nan astir breathtaking emerging voices successful television,” said Michael Thorn, President, Fox Television Network. “We invited Mateo, Isa, Chiara and Brandy and look guardant to supporting their maturation arsenic storytellers while expanding nan scope of talent helping to style Fox Entertainment’s content.”
The Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator 2026 Fellows:
ANIMATION
Mateo Gomez
Mateo Gomez is simply a drama writer primitively from Chicago. Gómez began arsenic a Writers PA for nan CBS comedy Man pinch a Plan, followed by a bid of different sitcoms including B Positive, How I Met Your Father and Frasier. He was subsequently promoted to Writers Assistant connected nan CBS comedy How We Roll and nan Netflix comedy That ‘90s Show, co-writing an section connected nan former. Gómez astir precocious worked arsenic nan Writers PA connected nan Hulu comedy Mid-Century Modern while simultaneously co-writing 4 episodes connected nan Peacock short-form series The Warehouse Phase. Additionally, his pilot My Roommate’s a Nightmare, was 1 of 2 winners astatine nan 2025 Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival. Gómez writes Latino-centric family dramedies and stories that find ray successful nan dark. When he’s not writing, you tin find him wherever his woman is.
COMEDY
Isa Moon
Isa Moon is simply a drama writer and performer from New York. After graduating from Emerson College successful 2021, she moved to Los Angeles, wherever she has worked arsenic a writers’ adjunct and book coordinator connected shows specified as Housebroken, Universal Basic Guys and Animal Control. Isa’s first short film, Mail, which she wrote, produced and starred in, premiered astatine nan 2025 Los Angeles International Film Festival. She writes and performs successful a long-running sketch show astatine The Elysian Theater pinch her troupe, Same Great Taste, which was selected to execute astatine this year’s SF Sketchfest. She tin besides beryllium seen performing astir Los Angeles successful nan drama duo PoundCakes. Isa loves her family successful New York, her friends everyplace and her canine astatine home.
DRAMA
Chiara Motley
Chiara Motley is an award-winning writer, shaper and actress based successful Los Angeles and Seattle. Her play pilot Paradise Lanes won Best TV Pilot astatine some the HollyShorts Film Festival and nan Big Apple Film Festival in 2025, and was a semifinalist astatine nan Austin Film Festival. As a producer, Chiara’s activity spans communicative shorts, digital series and podcasts. She produced and starred successful nan web bid All Souls, other Michael Potts, which won nan Gold Award astatine DC WebFest and nan Audience Award astatine Flickfair, and co-produced 2 seasons of The Corps, featured astatine nan American Black Film Festival and Urbanworld. She is besides nan shaper and co-host of Good Pain, a podcast exploring BDSM and powerfulness dynamics. A classically trained performer, she holds a B.A. successful Drama from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from nan National Theatre Conservatory, and has performed connected stages crossed nan country. She serves connected nan imaginative committee of Emergence Films and is presently producing Home Bound and A Woman Abroad, 2 projects spotlighting singular female perspectives. Chiara is represented by Maritza Cabrera astatine Limitless Management.
Brandy E. Palmer
Brandy E. Palmer writes multifaceted stories astir compelling underdogs and nan unsocial worlds they inhabit. Her Southern roots—steeped successful mysticism, family lore and much than a small unsolicited advice—inform her character-driven storytelling. Brandy began her profession arsenic a accumulation adjunct on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and later worked for Jamie Foxx’s accumulation company, Foxx King Entertainment, wherever she besides produced programming for SiriusXM’s The Foxxhole. She transitioned into tv penning and became a unit writer connected NBC’s New Amsterdam, wherever she penned 2 episodes. Brandy is simply a postgraduate of Clark Atlanta University. When she’s not processing caller material, she tin beryllium recovered astir Los Angeles successful hunt of nan cleanable matcha latte.
