Our Team

David Rocchio

Founder and Director

David Rocchio is an attorney, writer, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. David conceived and co-produced with James Rogan The Gun Shop, an Emmy-nominated  one-hour documentary. The Gun Shop premiered primetime on the UK Channel 4’s Cutting Edge series and then played worldwide. David’s award-winning short films have played internationally, including the Cannes Short Film Corner and Italy’s Capalbio International Short Film Festival (Best of Capalbio). His most recent short film Gary, Jr. (directed by Bertha Bay-Sa Pan) will start its festival run in 2023.

In addition to creating his own work, David founded and runs the nonprofit Stowe Story Labs, which is dedicated to helping top emerging screenwriters and filmmakers get work made and seen. Now in its tenth year, Stowe works with approximately 200 emerging talents each year at labs, retreats, and through mentoring programs.

David ski patrolled on the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol (Stowe, Vermont) for 22 years, and he remains an avid backcountry skier. He lives in Stowe, Vermont.

David Pope

Co-founder

David Pope is a screenwriter and script consultant working internationally. He has worked as a script consultant on projects globally including work with Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated producers and screenwriters and national film funds. Recent script consultations include Take It or Leave It, a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award 2019, and Truth and Justice, shortlisted for Best International Feature Film Academy Award 2020. He recently script consulted on the feature film Magic Mountains, which was released January 2020 and Splendid Isolation premiered at IFFR 2022. David script consulted on the drama series Imperial Spy for Fremantle (American Gods, Deutschland 83). 

He is the annual consultant/moderator for the Rotterdam Lab at CineMart and co-founder of Stowe Story Labs in the US. David has been a creative consultant on Rawi Screenwriting Lab for Royal Film Commission-Jordan, a screen specialist in script consultancy working with production companies through the FOCUS scheme supported by Screen Scotland and is a regular script consultant for MIDPOINT. 

Recent screenwriting assignments include writing the latest draft of the feature film Tempelhof, the feature film Rulin, and the latest draft of the feature film Summer of 81. David has a slate of projects in development with advance films. 

Previous script development and training clients include: BFI, Creative England, UK Film Council, BBC, BAFTA, Fremantle, National Theatre, Screen Scotland, British Council, Creative Europe, Cannes Cinefondation, Warp Films, Allfilm, KulturaTV, Polish Film Institute, Cannes Film Festival, Film London, Lionhead Studios, Xingu Films, Irish Film Board, FAS Screen Training Ireland, New Horizons Studio, Estonian Film Institute, among many others. He sits on the film committee of the WGGB.

Katerina Eichenberger

Operations Director

Katerina is an actress and the Operations Director for Stowe Story Labs. She has completed two TV movies House of Lies & The Beauty of Love as the lead actress, was featured on Monarch and Star on Fox and in Your Worst Nightmare on ID TV, and has completed acted in a variety of short films and commercials for companies such as the CDC and Michelob ULTRA. You can see more of her acting work here. Her most recent theatre credits include The Exterminating Angel adapted by Sawyer Estes (2021) Ubu adapted by Sawyer Estes (2020) and Spirits to Enforce by Mickle Maher (2019) all with Vernal & Sere Theatre Company in Atlanta. Katerina is based in Atlanta and is signed with the Stewart Talent Agency (NYC & ATL) and David Laffey at Wonder Street Management. Most recently, a short film she starred in, Census, had an international premiere in Nantes at the world’s largest sci-fi festival, Utopiales. She will be working on a new film in December 2022. She received her BFA in drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Colleen Castle

operations Manager

Colleen Castle comes from big brand advertising and is excited to have pivoted into the world of film & TV production. Prior to Stowe, she was an Account Director at Ogilvy, one of the largest and most reputable marketing & communications agencies. She brings 13 years industry experience in client services, brand building, and commercial production across B2B and B2C clients. Given her wide-ranging experience developing creative campaigns for everything from lipstick, bedroom furniture, and folding smartphones to wind turbines and industrial coatings, she likes to think she has cocktail party conversation fodder for just about any arcane topic. Colleen hails from Baltimore, though Brooklyn, NY, is now home. She loves to travel, hike, and pretend she'll magically master Irish fiddling if enough Guinness is consumed. When she's not supporting operations and programs at Stowe, she is working in other production capacities, usually on set or buying someone a drink.

Carrie Wachob

Social Media and Alumni Engagement

Carrie is a screenwriter, former journalist, and current medical videographer breaking story in the writers room of Like Charlie, a wicked game studio in Bruges, Belgium (with fellow Stowe alumni Dagmar Blommaert and Debi Yazbeck)! She's in development on a narrative game, a comedy feature, and two dark comedy TV pilots, including Darkly Heights with legendary music producer Miles Copeland III. In summer/fall of 2022, she's producing an Oz-themed documentary short about Willard Carroll and the power of story. When she's not writing, directing, or editing surgical footage, she’s eating chocolate and hanging with dogs.

Kerry broderick

Project Manager

Kerry Broderick is a Writers' Retreat alum who brings 7+ years of agency experience in creative project management and digital marketing to Stowe Story Labs. Through her work at marketing and advertising agencies, she's helped nationally-recognized CPG, tourism, public health, and non-profit brands grow campaigns from the strategy phase to launch by managing budget planning and tracking, ad operations, and reporting. In addition to writing contracts and ad copy in her professional life, Kerry's creative writing focuses on the tragedy of hitting rock bottom and the magic of healing. Her scripts have received finalist placements in contests like ScreenCraft's Sci-Fi & Fantasy competition and ranked on Coverfly's Red List, with one of her features scoring in the top 10% of all discoverable projects on Coverfly in 2021. The Stowe Story Labs Writers' Retreat gifted her lasting relationships with mentors and a huge download of industry guidance that she'll use to hopefully produce her own scripts and other mental health-based stories one day. Outside of writing and work, Kerry's cup is filled by interacting with small animals (rats are undoubtedly her totem animal), hiking in the Green Mountains, and café hopping.

Bryce Norbitz

Director, Stowe Launch

Bryce Norbitz directs Stowe Launch, Stowe’s Advanced Development Program. Bryce is formerly the director of scripted programs at the Tribeca Film Institute where she curated projects and oversaw the execution of their scripted programs including Tribeca All Access, TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, and the TFI Network filmmaker/industry market. In addition to her work with Stowe, Bryce oversees filmmaker participation in Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program and AT&T Presents: Untold Stories, which provides $1 million to complete a film each year. As part of her work, Bryce travels throughout the US and abroad working with emerging voices to provide connections, support, and film-pitch training. Bryce is formerly the executive producer of the prolific, Brooklyn-based production company UglyRhino and has worked at Chicago Shakespeare, The Second City, The Public Theater, and Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment. Bryce is a New Yorker and a graduate of Northwestern University.

Marian D. Cook

mARKETING COORDINATOR

Marian D. Cook is a former journalist and current USC student pursuing an MFA in film and TV production. She graduated from Spring Hill College in 2019, Summa Cum Laude and with honors, with a BA in Journalism. She's been published over a dozen times, covering topics from local news to federal healthcare legislation. She's directed, produced, edited, and shot (basically a one-woman show) a range of documentaries from plastic surgery to segregation in the church. And she is a recipient of the Autry D. Greer Media Service Award and Catholic Press Award. But she also has a passion for narrative film. She's currently focused her talents on producing, directing, writing, and editing strong, female-led stories, especially that of Latinas. Her latest projects include Pay My Bill, starring her mother and Maria Garcia, that deals with the everyday struggles of immigrants and the social pressures of assimilation; and Bad Hombrewood, a short documentary directed by Guillermo Casarin about Latinx representation in Hollywood, starring Phil Lord, Guillermo Del Toro, Lee Unkrich, Melissa Fumero, and a range of Latinx talent that demonstrate the beauty and diversity of the Latinx community. You can learn more here. Marian assists with all aspects of operations, writes for the newsletter, and assists with research and writing to support fundraising and communications about programs.

Bridget Bell McMahon

Development Director

Bridget Bell McMahon, a Labs alumna, is a certified public accountant, business consultant, and screenwriter. Her feature scripts about complicated women have earned distinction in top screenwriting competitions and labs. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Business Administration with a degree in accounting and a concentration in theology, Bridget spent nearly a decade specializing in tax work in the US and abroad. She co-founded the Maryland Writers’ Association Screenplay Critique Group, lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her family and fat tabby cat, and hails from Woodstock, NY

Robert Delany

programming Manager

Robert is a film programmer from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the Programming Manager at Stowe Story Labs for Stowe's Alumni Short Film Channel, its screening series at The Current, and for the Vermont Film and Music Festival. He is the Cinema Programming Coordinator for ArtsQuest, a non-profit in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he develops new screening series and programs, assists with running The Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival, and focuses on the day-to-day operation of the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas. Robert is a contributor for Split Tooth Media, where he publishes an interview series about the world of Avant Garde and experimental film: featuring artists like Su Friedrich, Janie Geiser, Chris Sullivan, Jodie Mack, Amy Kravitz, co-founder of Arbelos Films David Marriot, and Sky Hopinka. He is also a host and recurring guest on Split Tooth podcasts. He graduated in 2020 with an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU, and in 2018 he received a B.S. in Film and Television from Boston University.