The founder of Digital Thunderdome, Scott Hansen is a screenwriter & filmmaker from Virginia Beach, VA. He is widely known for directing the award winning film called Bad Candy” (2021) starring Corey Taylor from the band “Slipknot” and Zach Galligan the star of Gremlins which won 32 best picture awards and over 72 more awards on its festival run. In 2016, he created The Possession Experiment which sold to Eone/Momentum Pictures for domestic and CMG for international distribution and was sold to 35 countries abroad. It also debuted in the top 10 in horror on iTunes for three weeks upon it’s release. Scott also worked on Scott Glenn and Jim Gaffigan’s new movie called “Eugene the Marine”. Scott’s most recent highly anticipated film that he directed called “DEVOUR” arrives in theaters in October. Also in 2025 Scott and his team take on the survival hiking horror movie called “The Quiet Zone” to be shot in Georgia as well as producing “Bloodletting” , a horror western to be shot in Canada.

Lauren Robyn is making her feature film debut with Wait ‘Til Dawn. She is an actor and director with a keen eye and meticulous attention to detail who takes inspiration from the works of Ari Aster, Mike Flanagan, and John Carpenter.

You can see some of her previous work with Human Pincushion Productions (Silent Night, Seeing Double, and Baby It’s Cold Outside) on their YouTube channel, and her work with SimmeringFire Productions (Ava and Eli Forver) on theirs.

Worst Laid Plans (2022), currently streaming on Tubi, and The Thing About Beecher’s Gate, which was awarded a Drive-In Academy Award by Joe Bob Briggs. He has also written and directed stageplays for the award-winning Bacchus Theatre Collective.

Justin Best holds a BA in creative writing and studied feature film writing at UCLA Extension under Michael Weiss. His script, Darryn the Bold and the Sword of Boldness, has been a finalist in multiple screenwriting competitions, and he has written three fiction books, all of which reached the top ten in their respective genres on Amazon. He is the writer for The Days After, a virtual reality video game, selected by Oculus as part of its indie-developer START program. As a composer, his music has been featured in programming for WWE, National Geographic, and Swiffer. Justin also has nearly twenty years of corporate writing experience, creating content for Starbucks, CitiBank, AMC Theatres, and more. He currently lives in the Los Angeles area. As a director, SHERYL is his first feature film.