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Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 57 Pages
Two Russian spies – a cheerful analytics nerd and a stone-cold nihilist – road trip across the US posing as influencers, spreading chaos while tearing apart the fabric of American society. Based on the very-insane and very-true story.
Los Angeles, CA
A native New Yorker inspired by big concepts, bold characters, and dark comedy, Matt's won awards at Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Lions, and Telly Awards, and his scripts have won the Final Draft Big Break TV Award, the Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest, and been highlighted by The Blacklist as "Script of the Month."
In TV, Matt ran two seasons...
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Runner-ups
Runner-up
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
A Korean-American grandmother stakes her reputation, business, and life on the line as she investigates the sinister circumstances behind a double homicide in her family.
Los Angeles, California
Stephen Ra-Choi is a Korean-American writer from New Jersey. His knack for storytelling grew as he spent most of his childhood stuck behind a church pew, drawing comics or writing short stories that were highly inappropriate for a pastor’s kid.
Stephen became hooked on films and TV during the early 2000’s heyday of K-dramas and New Korean Cinema...
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Finalists
Bitch Town
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
A one-hour action comedy about a young woman who is introduced to the thrilling world of female assassins after she teams up with a local hitwoman to track down her sister’s murderer on a dangerous dating app.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Kat Sieniuc is a television writer most recently staffed on Amazon Studios' adaptation of The Left Right Game podcast and the Netflix series The Order. She previously won the Page International Screenwriting Awards and WeScreenplay’s Television Competition, and was also an Austin Film Festival finalist. A former news reporter, Kat tells stories ripp...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 54 Pages
A troubled FBI agent is pulled out of retirement to chase down a killer who electrocutes his victims for reasons that go beyond life and death.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Hailing from New York, Eva Konstantopoulos is a Greek-American who has extensive experience writing for animated kids’ shows. In the past, she adapted her novel, HUSH, into the Netflix film, MALEVOLENT. She writes grounded sci-fi and horror and is drawn to stories about outsiders and in-between spaces.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
When an overzealous Make-A-Wish Foundation employee is fired for taking things too far, he joins forces with a dark-web, black market mogul to start the black market version of Make-A-Wish, for dying kids whose last wishes are either illegal or just kind of fucked up. It's Workaholics meets My Name is Earl meets Fantasy Island (pitch deck available ...
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Clarksville, TN
After graduating from an arts high school in Los Angeles, Phillip went to film school at Emerson College with a focus on screenwriting. That was probably a poor financial decision as far as majors go, but his wife is a doctor, so if things don’t work out, his fall back career of trophy husband is very promising. He was able to enjoy insightful devel...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Disillusioned with his day job as an engineer, Ken Hammer fights to be accepted in the offbeat world of professional swordsmithing.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
No bio available.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
Inspired by a true story — as seen on the cover of Newsweek — Menace is an undercover crime drama about the relationship between a black FBI agent and his informant, a repentant white supremacist, as they try and save America from itself.
Nashville, TN
Ross is a screenwriter and journalist who has worked on staff at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.
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Finalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 53 Pages
In 18th-century Weimar, music is the most valuable currency. A Duchess-turned-composer and a mysterious new harpsichordist clamor for power amid a costly regime change, battling Machiavellian politicians, egotistical artists, and eventually each other for the opera that will change Europe forever. It's Game of Thrones meets Amadeus in this pivotal a...
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Altadena, California
Sean is a Canadian pianist-turned-writer. After years of being told to practice the piano "until your fingers bleed," he began writing about the dark side of opportunity. An MFA grad of USC Screenwriting, he now works in both nonfiction and fiction. His reporting has appeared via LA Magazine, Vulture, and the Denver Post. His music pilot, The Protég...
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Young Agatha
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Finalist
TV Script
· Adventure
· 36 Pages
"Young Agatha" is a half-hour sizzlin’ teen-whodunnit-whirlwind which follows fifteen-year-old Agatha Christie as she uses her razor-sharp wit and imaginative spirit to solve crimes in coastal Torquay, all while balancing the challenges of teenage life in 1905 and investigating her father’s mysterious death.
Vienna, Vienna, AT
Maria is an award-winning bilingual Vienna-based screenwriter repped by Echo Lake and Berlin Associates. She has done work for Austrian, German, and American production companies and broadcasters. She writes anything as long as it's True Stories, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Murder/Mystery, female-driven or otherwise edgy, offbeat, and bone-dry.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
Just three home runs shy of the all-time home run mark, Henry Aaron and his bodyguard must survive the death threats and scrutiny that comes with an African American challenging sport's greatest record.
Los Angeles, CA
Growing up in the showbiz hotbed of Des Moines, Aaron moved to LA and got his start on set in film & TV production; establishing his own production entity (ODDBIRD) to create with. Living on borrowed time since age 13, Aaron uses levity and “Iowa Nice” to explore complex characters in existential conflict with their environments through bold, genre-...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 60 Pages
Based on true events chronicling the extraordinary life of Bayard Rustin and his role as an openly homosexual Civil Rights activist and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King.
Los Angeles, California
Dondré Taylor-Stewart is an LA-based dramedy writer who tells stories about Black and queer characters challenging oppressive systems. His writing is shaped by his experiences growing up as a gay Black man, raised by conservative Jamaican parents while navigating the contrast between his progressive New Jersey gayborhood and his family’s Christian v...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Rebellious Taylor is sent to a summer camp for psychopathic teenage girls, where she'll have to contend with her fellow campers, the overbearing staff, and a deeper conspiracy that spans decades.
Glendale, CA
Danny grew up attending Orthodox Jewish school by day, writing gay Star Wars fan fiction by night. Thankfully, Danny learned to drop the queer Sith Lords, and now writes about monsters, freaks, and weirds looking for a friend.
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 33 Pages
In a future where Machines rule and humankind has faded into irrelevancy, one woman fights to move up at her job.
Los Angeles, CA
Danny Solomon is a TV writer working in LA. After an underrated standup career culminating in an album ("Genius") released by Blonde Medicine, Danny discovered he was far better at writing scripts. He's sold two pilots to Comedy Central, and made them a webseries (300 Sunnyside). He's also had several features developed, and staffed on dozens of ser...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 65 Pages
In 1963 Russia at the height of the space race, a freethinking Soviet rocket scientist must outwit the KGB - and his celebrity cosmonaut wife - after receiving an alien transmission warning of an imminent nuclear apocalypse.
Los Angeles, CA
Alex Vincent Blumberg is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. He’s written narration for Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, optioned an original screenplay, and produced an award-winning narrative podcast based on his TV pilot "Back Fires." In 2025, Alex was named one of the “Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch” by the International Screenwriter...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
In a future where the working class is forced to live in an augmented reality, an ex-rebel hacker turned hard-boiled federal agent infiltrates a hacker group, only to discover one of them is an exact doppelganger of his dead wife.
Los Angeles, California
Christopher is a multi-hyphenate who creates genre-elevating work featuring social commentary that pushes creative limits. He specializes in gritty, edge-of-your-seat thrillers laced with an aggressive moodiness that leaves no room for escape.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 33 Pages
When a freak accident transports broke, melodramatic Edgar Allan Poe and his wisecracking raven into modern day Baltimore, they make ends meet by solving mysteries and crimes as private detectives. If only Edgar could get people to believe that he is the real Poe.
Orange County, California
Mindy Strouse is a neurodivergent writer whose brand is Wild Stories About Weirdos. Mindy has a penchant for mystery, misfits, murder, & 'your mom' jokes. Raised by TV, a Vietnam Vet dad with PTSD, and a mom whose obsessions are cleaning and Catholicism; there is no way Mindy could avoid dark subjects or dark comedy.
Hobbies: Collecting stray p...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
When four Chicago outcasts struggle to find a fulfilling path in life, they decide to go into business together and open a bar! …in Prohibition-era 1920, where religious groups, mobsters, the Chicago Police Department, and often their own incompetence threaten them at every turn.
Think Barry meets It’s Always Sunny... but in Oxford shoes.
Emily Parker is a comedy writer & producer based in Los Angeles. She currently works in development at Comedy Central and produces the live comedy show Motherland. In 2022, she received her MS in Television Writing & Producing from Boston University. Her simple pleasures include dry, deadpan comedies, a bad thriller book, Stanley Tucci's existence &...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
A coming of age story that follows three teenagers and best friends from the Bronx, who after finding a sleeping monster they discover was created to protect ancient ghettos, set out on a quest to wake it up and save their hood from a growing threat.
California
Andrew graduated from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, and has written numerous TV pilots, feature screenplays and book adaptations for established producers, including eOne and Roth / Kirschenbaum Films. Andrew is also president and co-founder of Symptom Media, an online platform for mental health education , currently used in over 500 universitie...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
In an alternate U.S. where teenagers can legally sue their parents for suspension of parental rights, a Wyoming-based Yellowstone National Park tour guide is prosecuted by her loner son.
Los Angeles, CA
WGA-award-winning writer from Philadelphia who earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
Two young women looking to get ahead in the "boys club" at work found a fraudulent start-up, promising a world-changing technology that doesn't exist.
2017 HBO Writing Fellowship
2020 HBO Access
Quarter-finalist in the Script Pipeline TV Writing Competition 2023
Quarter-finalist in the TLC Free Screenplay competition 2023
Evelina
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 45 Pages
A teenage orphan searches for her estranged billionaire father in London — but how to outfox the snobs, liars, and fraudsters standing in her way?
No bio available.
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
A one-hour drama chronicling the tumultuous life of silent-screen star Mabel Normand. Through her astonishing story, the series will explore the love affairs, scandals, and innovations of Hollywood's first generation of movie stars.
Studio City, CA
Brian has directed numerous projects including the award winning short films "Flat Earther," "Cabeceo", "Une Libération", and "Far". Brian co-produced the zombie cult classic "Dance of the Dead", which was released by Sam Raimi's Ghost House Underground through Lionsgate. Brian is originally from Minneapolis MN, and is a graduate of the University o...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 64 Pages
When young Alice disappears down a rabbit hole, her overbearing governess, Lacie, must navigate the mysterious and dangerous realms of the multiverse in order to find her. But in a vast multiverse, could there be more than one Alice?
Oakville, ON, CA
Born in Toronto, Michael has always had a passion for filmmaking and storytelling. As a teenager, he gained exposure working in production as he traveled across Ontario doing camera gigs with his dad, a freelance video editor and cameraman. His mother is Emmy Award-Winning Sound Editor and ADR Supervisor, Janice Ierulli.
Michael studied Film & Te...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Rejected by friends, his career in tatters, an alcoholic, gay actor seeks refuge in a Palm Springs trailer park inhabited by Hollywood has-beens, where he struggles with sobriety, HIV, caring for his mentally declining mother, while confronting 80’s AIDS hysteria.
Palm Springs, CA
An award winning writer, Mark's work focuses on the triumphs, struggles of LGBTQI+ individuals, by exploring the breadth of their unique and vital history. Mark utilizes his experience as a gay father, an English teacher in Japan, a multimedia artist, and an activist in his work. His filmmaking degree and years in production taught him the importanc...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 60 Pages
Released after decades in prison, a sword & sorcery obsessed, muscle-bound guitar prodigy quests to reunite his forgotten metal band, unwittingly derailing an ultra-nationalist conspiracy, upending his former bandmates' lives, and running afoul of just about everyone.
Geoffrey Hyatt is a vintage toy and comic collector, a ghostwriter and crime novelist, and a scholar of lurid stuff and nonsense.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
It’s better to go down in infamy than never to go down at all. At least that’s what ALICE and PETE — two best friends and lifelong millennial doormats — learn when they’re framed for a series of high-profile murders they didn’t commit. Suddenly, the world wants to hear their story. And after a lifetime spent in the shadows of their more successful p...
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Los Angeles, California
Summer is a writer, director, and the head editor of Cusper Magazine, a biannual culture and lit print publication sold in bookstores around LA. Her short film, There Are Mermaids in LA — a subverted fairytale starring comedian Jamie Loftus — premiered at Dances with Films, and went on to screen at Silver Lake Shorts, Genre Blast, Oaxaca and Woods H...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 56 Pages
A controversial female evangelist in Jazz-Age Los Angeles combines charismatic faith-healing, Hollywood theatrics and political gamesmanship to build a soul-saving multimedia empire, while navigating chauvinistic rivals, a fickle press, and her own crisis of faith. Inspired by true events.
Los Angeles, CA
Alex Vincent Blumberg is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. He’s written narration for Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, optioned an original screenplay, and produced an award-winning narrative podcast based on his TV pilot "Back Fires." In 2025, Alex was named one of the “Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch” by the International Screenwriter...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
On the brink of losing their funding, a female led startup of ethical hackers chase a long shot government deal in an attempt to show competitors and investors that they have what it takes.
Los Angeles, California
Sarah Granger crafts narratives that explore how harnessing pain can spur innovation, reshape worlds, and transform lives. She is the recipient of the 2023 Loreen Arbus Fellowship award through the Athena Writers Lab and winner of the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Filmmakers with Disabilities Grant. Her scripts have been on The Black List’s Disability List and...
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