Jonathan LaPoma is a Mexico City-based multi-genre author, 160x award-winning screenwriter, international screenplay consultant, and voice actor. Alexandra Maramenides of the prestigious Rêve Agency proudly represents his multidisciplinary slate of creative intellectual properties.

LaPoma holds a BA in history and secondary education (SUNY Geneseo, 2005) and leverages over 20 years of professional teaching experience as a certified public school educator and global online tutor. His creative voice was deeply forged through extensive travel across the United States and Mexico, as well as a decade of profound internal isolation spent overcoming crippling OCD. He translated this existential friction into a massive, interconnected catalog published and managed under Almendro Arts, spanning 5 psychological novels, 15 screenplays, and hundreds of songs and poems. His writing masterfully explores themes of alienation and misery as human constructions that characters can transform through self-understanding and the acceptance of suffering.

? Screenwriting Success & Script Doctoring Expertise

As a film industry professional, LaPoma’s screenplays have captured over 160 international awards and honors in prestigious screenwriting competitions. Veteran Hollywood producer Warren Zide (American Pie, Final Destination) optioned his dark comedy feature script Harm for the Holidays alongside Wexlfish Pictures, and award-winning producer Byron A. Martin (Disney, Sony, Universal attachment history) is attached to his feature script La Tierra Que Yo Amo (Land that I Love).

Expanding his industry development footprint, LaPoma operates as a high-profile international screenplay consultant and script doctor. He has executed the critical script doctoring phase for the bicultural film project Chinese Tequila for executive producer Carlos Bravo, completed key screenplay polish work for the independent feature Montreal Girls, and served as a co-writer and development consultant for ¡Vamos, Emilio!. An accomplished voice actor, he has dubbed multiple feature films and Netflix series in English, and he translated and wrote the official English subtitles for the acclaimed feature-length documentary Entre Tierras. He has held active memberships in The Authors Guild and Gotham Ghostwriters, served as a featured speaker for the San Diego Writers/Editors Guild, and served as an official jury member for international film festivals in San Diego and Cordoba.

? Bestselling Book Publishing & Literary Recognition

LaPoma is the author of a bestselling five-book interconnected literary series comprising Hammond, The Summer of Crud, Understanding the Alacrán, Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story, and The Soul City Salvation. Four of his books have earned official recommendations from Kirkus Reviews, reaching #1 on the Amazon Bestseller lists across the USA, Canada, and Australia, while capturing top honors at the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and the Stargazer Literary Prizes.

As a prominent literary figure, his work has achieved global exhibition at the historic Frankfurt Book Fair via the Combined Book Exhibit, and he has headlined exclusive author events at premier independent hubs like Warwick’s in La Jolla and Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore. His commentary has achieved national broadcast media scale, featuring in deep-dive interviews on major networks like WIBC Radio Indianapolis and WTMJ Radio Milwaukee, where he mapped his flagship novel directly to modern policy frameworks.

LaPoma enjoys helping emerging authors, screenwriters, and independent artists dismantle psychological creative blocks to cleanly package, edit, market, and distribute their own high-value literary intellectual property.