EW's Breaking Big and Bold School panels at 2025 SCAD TVfest include Melissa Roxburgh, “The Penguin”'s Rhenzy Feliz, more

SCAD TVfest, the Savannah College of Art and Design's annual festival spotlighting the very best in television, streaming, and digital media, returns from Feb. 5-7 to Atlanta for three days of stars, awards, and illuminating conversations.

Entertainment Weekly is proud to reveal the participants of our two SCAD TVfest 2025 panels: EW Presents Bold School and EW Presents Breaking Big.

The luminaries gracing each panel star on some of TV's most popular and critically-acclaimed series, like Abbott Elementary, Outlander, and Cobra Kai. Participants include Shanola Hampton, the star of NBC's breakout hit Found, who has led the missing persons procedural drama to nominations at the Critics Choice Television Awards and NAACP Image Awards.

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Melissa Roxburgh, another participant in EW's Bold School panel, has starred in two of the most beloved new series of the past five years — Manifest, the supernatural drama she anchored on NBC and then Netflix for four seasons, and The Hunting Party, the FBI procedural that premiered on NBC last month.

Then there are the rising stars, from Rhenzy Feliz, who played the right-hand man to Colin Farrell's titular villain on The Penguin, to Chase Infiniti, the Presumed Innocent star who will soon appear in Paul Thomas Anderson's next feature film, to Keyla Monterroso Mejia, a scene-stealer on Abbott Elementary and Curb Your Enthusiasm, who recently appeared on The Studio.

The Bold School series, this year moderated by EW social media editor Ennica Jacob, shines the spotlight on power players in the entertainment industry, giving them a platform to share anecdotes about life lessons, how they found their voice, and how to pay it forward. This lively discussion among fierce, fearless female and/or nonbinary forces in entertainment opens up a dialogue around the power and privilege of taking on roles that redefine the rules and refuse to yield.

EW's popular Breaking Big panel comes to SCAD TVfest for the first time this year, after making a splash at SCAD Savannah Film Festival last fall. The Breaking Big discussion, moderated by EW editor in chief Patrick Gomez, features the hottest up-and-coming actors as they discuss their current projects, their starts in Hollywood, and what's next in their careers.

Read on for the exclusive reveal of the full cast of participants in EW's Bold School and Breaking Big panels at the SCAD TVfest 2025.

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EW Presents Bold School

EW's Bold School panel at 2025 SCAD TVfest, moderated by EW Social Media Editor Ennica Jacob, will include:

• Shanola Hampton, Found

• Mary Mouser, Cobra Kai

• Melissa Roxburgh, The Hunting Party and Manifest

• Sophie Skelton, Outlander

• KJ Smith, Tyler Perry’s Sistas
  

EW Presents Breaking Big

EW's Breaking Big panel at 2025 SCAD TVfest, moderated by EW Editor in Chief Patrick Gomez, will include:

• Rhenzy Feliz, The Penguin, Encanto, Marvel's Runaways

• Chase Infiniti, Presumed Innocent, untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film

• Keyla Monterroso Mejia, You're Cordially Invited, The Studio, Abbott Elementary, Curb Your Enthusiasm

• Kayla Wallace, Landman, When Calls the Heart

• Mekki Leeper, St. Denis Medical, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Jury Duty

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SCAD TVfest 2025 will be held at the SCADshow Theater in Atlanta from Feb. 5-7.

More information about confirmed panels, panelists, and passes, which are on sale now, can be found at scadtvfest.com. Individual SCAD TVfest screenings and panel tickets go on sale at noon ET. on Thursday, Jan. 23, and can be purchased online or in person at SCADshow in Atlanta (1470 Spring St. NW) and the SCAD Box Office (216 E. Broughton St.) in Savannah.

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