Mark A. Dispenza is a writer-director from Louisiana and producer at Serendipitous Productions, LLC. A writer and storyteller all of his life, he’s a former news reporter and freelance contributor to news outlets and blogs. His scripts have won or placed in several competitions and his feature screenplay, "The Laughter of Children," was a winner of the Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach (HOP) program, a Finalist for the 2020 CineStory Foundation Feature Retreat and a Second Rounder in the 2020 Austin Writers Conference, among others. He has directed short films and local television docs, and his current projects include “Doppelgänger,” a short-form science fiction serial; “Big Easy Dead,” a supernatural detective novel and graphic novel; and an independent feature production of “The Laughter of Children.” The pilot season script for "Doppelgänger" won the 2019 Web Series Festival Global and is currently a winner or finalist in several other ongoing competitions.