Jono Matt is from Omaha, Nebraska. He accidentally saw the film Disclosure at age 7, and though it possibly confused him, he knew movies were his calling.  His first not-so-real job was when he co-founded a production company at 21, but it had to be dissolved when his business partner received a 10-year prison sentence for a production related crime. His first real job in Hollywood was assistant to the primary director of Sons of Anarchy and Glee. 

Jono is currently writing a Shrek spin-off for Illumination, co-writing an action movie with Glen Powell for Sony, and co-writing a comedy feature for Apple. In 2025, Jono and Pete Huyck (EP of The Studio) pitched a Christmas movie,  which resulted in a massive bidding war and the largest pitch sale since 1995. They followed it up a few months later with another pitch sale, also to Apple.

Jono has written with actor Glen Powell for over a decade. The duo got their break as screenwriters when they sold a reboot of Captain Planet to Paramount with Leonardo DiCaprio. Shortly after, Jono and Glen sold a pitch to Imagine Entertainment and Channing Tatum, which is currently in development at Sony. Jono has also written solo projects for Universal, Warner Bros, WB Animation, and Netflix. His dog Biscuits will be famous one day.

Ant Simpson is no stranger to being behind a microphone. Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his screenwriting career with writing partner Shane, Ant hosted his own national afternoon drive-time radio show on Australia’s iHeartRadio KIIS Network. The show, which was broadcast daily to more than 1.5 million listeners, was named Best Network Show two years in a row at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards.

In addition to his radio work, Ant has appeared on the Australian Today Show, the live nightly entertainment program The Project and was a regular on the mega-hit Australian variety show Hey Hey, It’s Saturday. Ant is also a successful voice-over artist who has voiced campaigns globally for Disney, McDonalds, Universal Pictures, Red Bull, Paramount Pictures, Fox, Google and countless more. For five years he could even be heard all over the US as the voice of the Outback Steakhouse chain of restaurants (seriously).

Shane Kennedy grew up in Los Angeles to a family of trailer editors. He was obsessed from an early age, watching dailies his dad would bring home and getting to see the seams that stitch together to make a movie. He eventually edited the trailer for Zoolander at just 16. Despite mediocre grades, that got him into Emerson College in Boston, where he studied film & screenwriting, after which he moved back to LA to work at Thunder Road Pictures for Basil Iwanyk (John Wick, Sicario). After years working in production and pursuing his other love of music by playing multiple instruments in various bands, an opportunity with Universal Music Australia sent him to Melbourne, where he soon met Ant. The two quickly became writing partners. They call each other Bubby.

Together, Shane & Ant (aka “ShAnt” within the industry) co-wrote a pilot with the legendary Norman Lear for Sony Television. They sold heist comedy feature FAMILY JEWELS to Lionsgate, with Vince Vaughn and Kate Hudson attached to star, Jeremy Garelick directing, and Dan Farah (Ready Player One) producing; they were hired by Netflix to write an action-adventure romcom, BERMUDA TRIANGLE with Katie Silberman (Booksmart, Don’t Worry Darling) producing; their spy action-comedy SIGOTS is in pre-production with Endurance Media; they’re currently packaging the high concept fantasy romcom I’M WITH CUPID with Tim Story directing and Todd Garner and Broken Road producing, and a grounded family comedy produced by Jeff Kirschenbaum and Zack Roth. Their most recent spec, the high-concept R-rated romcom IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME, ended up on the 2024 Blacklist and sold to Lionsgate with Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, A Simple Favor) and Academy Award winner Michael Sugar (Spotlight) producing. In 2025 they were tapped to write a buddy cop action comedy for director Marc Forster, starring Chris Pratt and Arnold Schwarzenegger.