Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program |
2022
Invite-only program designed to recruit the best diverse writing talent.
Placement
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Representation Status
Official Selections
Official Selection
Stage Play
· Drama
· 103 Pages
Four ten-year olds meet at a wedding. Little do they know, they will become the center of each other's lives for decades to come. Jumping through time, the play uses dance, music, and poetry to explore sexuality, gender, race, and love. You know, the big stuff. Life stuff.
Minneapolis, MN
JuCoby is an actor, playwright, and screenwriter. His plays include How It's Gon Be (Underdog Theater), ...but you could've held my hand (O'Neill NPC ), 5 ( O'Neill NPC ), I'll Be Seeing You Again (Jungle Serial Audio Series) and Revelations (Playing On Air). He was a part of the 2022 Sony Pictures TV Diverse Writers Program and a McKnight Fellow...
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Official Selection
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Amyra follows the life of an Indian Muslim immigrant as she tries to kickstart her very dead love life while balancing her crazy roommates and under-whelming career the only way she knows how: Imagining herself as the star of an Indian movie.
Los Angeles, CA
ApurupA is a trilingual writer who became the first person in her family to move to America to pursue an education. While at Emerson College, she founded Desi, their south Asian cultural org, taught English to domestic violence survivors, and crewed on an Indian feature film. Currently, Apurupa spends her free time cooking, making ceramics, and talk...
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Official Selection
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A resourceful baby mama is forced to track down her elusive baby daddy and recoup child support that’s long overdue.
Los Angeles, CA
Claytia Gonsalves is a Caribbean-American comedy writer, raising two kids and coming of age at the same damn time. She climbed the ladder from the bottom rung, from PA to Showrunner’s Assistant, and staffed on the first 2 seasons of the Disney animated series, KIFF. As a poet and a weightlifter in a past life, her creative strength is heavy on the ...
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Official Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 35 Pages
In order to win a local drag competition that will give him local fame, Benito embodies his estranged, homophobic, and racist mother and her terrible past to create the most loving and admirable drag queen San Antonio has ever seen.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Official Selection
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
This comedic drama is about a feisty transgender teen who helps a church-going, undocumented Asian woman escape deportation, and they form an unlikely friendship that helps them understand their own mother-daughter relationships.
Los Angeles, CA
Tricia Lee is an accomplished AAPI female filmmaker whose ability to blend heart-warming and heart-breaking stories with uplifting humor has earned her recognition on the Black List x3: 2020 (GOOD CHANCE), 2021 (IDOL) and 2023 (AMERICAN DREAMS). She's a fellow of the SONY Diverse TV Writers Program. Her feature script, GOOD CHANCE has received nume...
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Official Selection
TV Script
· Western
· 54 Pages
A Yoruba bounty hunter unearths secrets about his past when he stumbles upon a small Kansas town of never enslaved Africans.
Tucson, Arizona
OBIE Award winning actor, Edwin Lee Gibson began writing on the NYC theatre scene, crafting his voice with single character, solo works heralded in The New York Times and The Village Voice. Since 2016 he has created four original pilots, two full-length features and three shorts. Mr. Gibson currently appears on the hit series THE BEAR (FX/Hulu) and ...
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The Disappeared
Private
Official Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
After a series of missing immigrant teens are dismissed as runaways by the Long Island Police, the small town residents must search the MS-13's killing fields for answers on their own.
No bio available.
Official Selection
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
The Gómez family welcomes their widowed daughter back into the fold at their struggling Hacienda, unaware that she may be responsible for her husbands death.
Los Angeles, CA
Claudia is an LA based writer, director and actor. Credits include writing for the sketch comedy show THE BOOK OF QUEER (Discovery+) and the animated comedy YOUR DAILY HOROSCOPE (Quibi). She produced the feature comedy THE END OF US (Official Selection SXSW ’21) and stars in PEAK SEASON (SXSW 2023). Her most recent film, KILL ME DADDY, screened at ...
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The Outcome
Private
Official Selection
Feature
· Drama
· 96 Pages
A chronically ill podcaster attempts to hide his illness from his new girlfriend. After his condition is triggered on their first date, a series of events will show J. Snow that no matter how hard you try, you can't control The Outcome.
Jared Snow
No bio available.
TROLL
Private
Official Selection
TV Script
· Other
· 66 Pages
A disgraced former Russian intelligence officer is hired to work at a Troll Farm alongside a bunch of disaffected millennials. But when his former CIA counterpart appears offering clues into his wife’s disappearance, he goes undercover again, this time to spy on his own country and expose a larger conspiracy at play.
Cameron Ali Fay
No bio available.
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