Rusteen Honardoost

Rusteen Honardoost is an Iranian American comedy writer, and he currently works as the writers assistant and script coordinator for the Peabody and Emmy-award winning Apple TV+ series Stillwater.

His live-action comedy pilot "Ramona" scored an 8 on TheBlacklist.com, was a finalist for the ATX-Blacklist Writing Program and was called “dark and frank and funny” by writer/director Jason Reitman, which was very nice of him to say.

HIs cartoon pilot "Château de Bichon" was selected by MPAC for their Muslim Children’s Media Screenwriting Lab.

He was also a finalist for Adi Shankar’s Cure for Apu Screenwriting Competition in which he was able to turn a lifetime of people asking him how to pronounce his name into a spec script for The Simpsons satirizing the character Apu’s place in popular culture.