Mattson Tomlin was born in Romania during its revolution and was quickly adopted into the U.S. After receiving his master's in directing from the American Film Institute, he began a career in screenwriting and has appeared on the annual Black List six times in the past four years. Some of his other projects include Project Power (Netflix, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman), Fear Agent (Sony Television, directed by David Sandberg), Little Fish (directed by Chad Hartigan), which is currently in post-production.