The Black List
The Disability List
2020
Active Since 2019
A partnership between The Black List, The Media Access Awards, Easterseals, and the Writers Guild of America Writers with Disabilities Committee.

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2020 Official Selections on Coverfly

CENTS
Private
 · Unknown
Frankie––a high school senior with an intellectual disability––sets a penny on the railroad tracks the morning of a freak train derailment. Assuming responsibility, he goes into hiding amidst a citywide evacuation and must survive on his own––a “fugitive” in a ghost town, with the police who “hunt” him, and a pile of combustible train cars looming.
Sam Davis
No bio available.
Top 4%
TV Script  · Comedy  · 27 Pages
Afraid to tell her bubbly best friend about her recent cancer diagnosis, a cranky TV director turns to a cancer support group. There she meets a diverse group of women who help each other through real-life problems that can’t be solved with "good vibes".
Los Angeles, CA
Lily Gwyer-Miller is the Seattle-born child of two hippies whose career in entertainment began in the role of Janet at midnight screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Lily and her writing partner, Janna Taylor, have been featured on the Blacklist Disability List, The Grey List, as American Zoetrope Screenplay Finalists and, most recently, as Harv...
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LOOKING UP
Private
 · Unknown
A wheelchair-using twenty-something messes around and messes up in New York City.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
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