Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program |
2025
An 8-week, game-changing program. Engaging, high-impact sessions with Industry Leaders that will fast-track your TV writing career!
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Semifinalist
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· Animated
· 35 Pages
In a brutal galaxy where chefs kill for culinary supremacy, a haunted sushi master hunts the warlords who deep-fried his family—only to learn that revenge is the one dish best left unserved.
I fight for justice while celebrating my outlaw Okie roots alongside my neurodiversity and diagnosed ADA-recognized invisible disability. A civil rights lawyer, I’m leaping into a lifelong passion that’s an extension of my legal & political advocacy—comedy writing!
The goofs make audiences drop their dukes before I sucker punch them with emotional ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A group of unlikely friends hatch the world’s worst plans for coping with loss, as they stumble through their new normal of orphanhood in a world that can’t understand what they’re going through.
New York, NY
Eevin is an award-winning writer/producer/actor with a TV Writing MFA . She spent her early years as a child actor, turning to writing after college when she joined the downtown theater darlings the New York Neo-Futurists. She has written or co-written three independent digital series and is a proud member and workshop leader of The Filmshop. An “Ad...
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· Drama
· 44 Pages
Ambitious Layal battles her conservative brother's transfer plan after her university merger, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens her academic future following her ally Walid's expulsion.
SA
Shada Hafiz is a Saudi screenwriter passionate about creating culturally immersive stories that resonate universally. With experience in TV and film, she strives to bring unique perspectives to life, one character at a time. She earned her degree in filmmaking with a concentration in screenwriting from Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Shada...
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· Comedy
· 27 Pages
A struggling A&R representative is given one last chance to pull a hit song out of an unlikely artist while coming to terms with their own failed musical career.
Beverly, MA
Since first watching a George Carlin special at age twelve (which was far too too young! Shame on you, mom and dad!), Oliver has been obsessed with comedy. From performing stand up in New York to being fortunate enough to work with comedic institutions like The Onion and The Whitest Kids U Know, Oliver is always seeking out opportunities to make pe...
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An Unexpected Guest
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TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
In the aftermath of the Iraq war, a high-ranking diplomat’s wife must stop her former lover from revealing her terrorist past.
Santa Monica, CA
A native of Washington, DC, Tatiana Blackington James received a B.A. in French and Russian from New York University and an MFA in writing from the University of Southern California. She has written for Universal Pictures, HBO Films, CBS television and others, including the award-winning indie drama, THE NARROWS, and the award-winning short, HOMOLOG...
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
In the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, a fiery 50-year-old Latina, living life on her own terms in an RV trailer by day and slinging drinks in an island bar by night, suddenly discovers she's been granted custody of her half-black, overweight grandson, a revelation that shakes her world to its core. As she grapples with her own self-centeredness, al...
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Austin, TX
Janelle Lee (Vergara) Austin is an Austin-based filmmaker specializing in directing, writing, and script supervision. Her student film at Texas State University won Best Texas Short Film at the Comedy Film Festival in April 2024, received an Honorable Mention at the ATX Short Film Showcase, and is nominated for several awards at the 2024 Austin Unde...
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Blue Belle
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Unknown
· 58 Pages
Logline: In 1856, five years after her family’s murder, a white girl with a blue chin tattoo leaves the Mohave tribe under threat of war—trapped in white society, and haunted by her past, she must find a way to survive in a world far more hostile than the wild.
www.maggiemahrt.com
Semifinalist
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· Comedy
· 31 Pages
After a series of climate-related disasters devastate the country, a once promising young actress attempts to rebuild her life by joining an inept theater troupe as they navigate a lawless, post-apocalyptic America.
Burbank, CA
Professional writer working in theater and television. TV credits: “Mediterranean Life” and “Beach Around the World” (HGTV). Theater credits: "The Ex" (published by Samuel French), "On the Eighth Day" (notable New York Times review) and "Accept and Follow" (The Kennedy Center).
Church Girls
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
A jaded ex-Christian joins a new fundamentalist church community with the intent of dismantling it from the inside, but her personal mission is compromised when she finds herself falling for a true believer.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 60 Pages
Following a mental breakdown and subsequent dismissal from the FBI, detective Lance Carver is forced to return to his hometown of Eureka Springs, Arkansas to restart his law-enforcement career as a lowly Sheriff's Deputy. In this exciting, small-town supernatural thriller, not only will Lance dredge up past family trauma, he'll also have to confront...
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Los Angeles, CA
I’m a writer in Los Angeles. I spent my youth exploring the caves and rivers of the Ozarks. At the University of Michigan I wrote and directed a senior honors thesis. More recently, I’ve worked as a Script Coordinator for shows featured on Paramount+ and Netflix. I enjoy crafting stories that have rich, exciting worlds with elements of sci-fi, fanta...
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EX-GIRLFRIENDS
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 37 Pages
EX-GIRLFRIENDS is a blackly comic espionage thriller set in a world where sex is a weapon that can be used to seduce, reveal secrets, recruit and betray. It's also about a woman trying to do her damn job, infiltrate a gang, reclaim her former boyfriend from her ex best friend, keep her boss happy, stay alive, and experience an all-girls boozy brunch...
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No bio available.
FAKE RABBI
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Semifinalist
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· Comedy
· 35 Pages
When a broke, radical feminist painter/burlesque dancer seeking belonging, takes a gig teaching bar mitzvah kids, she pretends she’s a real rabbi and starts to fight the patriarchy from within.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
In post-World War II occupied Tokyo, a mysterious death draws an American military police officer and a Japanese detective into a criminal conspiracy entangling both of their countries.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A messed-up figure skating coach seeks redemption by taking on a young raw talent - a cynical troublemaker with a gift for exposing everyone’s wounds especially her coach’s - forcing her to face the fall that ruined her career and earned her the nickname "Frosty Bum".
London, GB
Jo hails from England but she began her career in America as a figure skater performing in ice shows. Her passion for storytelling combined with her love of dialogue inspired her to become a writer. Jo writes female driven screenplays about messy women. In 2023 her stage play 'The Beach House', premiered at Park Theatre London ★★★★ ‘Beautifully c...
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GINGER RULES
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Series Logline: Newly unemployed from an insurance fraud investigation firm, a single mom starts a Private Detective Agency with the help of her Kung Fu Sifu and her hacker teenager’s father: an infamous jewel thief wanted by the FBI.
Venice, California
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
Mayhem ensues when a young diabetic artist trying to break into comics is forced to live with a one-eyed, alcoholic Karate teacher in his broken-down martial arts school facing foreclosure.
Los Angeles, CA
David Herman is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films have been featured in various festivals (Camera Image, London Film Awards, LA Shorts Fest, Ibiza Cine Fest, etc.). In 2010, he won a student BAFTA AWARD for his film, DELAYED. WILL WILSON won the 2017 Emerging Cinematography Award. David directed and executive produced GHOST, a film promo...
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Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
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TV Script
· Historical
· 63 Pages
The true story of "Kelly," the first Broadway musical in history to close on its opening night, and the not-so-true story of Louise, a young Jewish woman who risks everything to take the story and turn it into her big break in journalism.
No bio available.
HOME
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TV Script
· Family
· 44 Pages
After fifteen years in Asia, an expatriate family of six longs for “home” and moves back to the USA, only to learn that “home” is not a city or country, but just being together. Family Comedy based on real events. MODERN FAMILY meets FRESH OFF THE BOAT
Jennifer D'Angelo Kircher
No bio available.
How To Sell Sex
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
In the throes of London’s sexual revolution, an abused housewife battles to revolutionise the world of lingerie, clashing with political figures, societal norms and a conservative businesswoman determined to maintain the status quo.
Lowestoft, Suffolk, GB
Having grown up queer, poor and raised by television, I became interested in storytelling as a means of escapism, then I realised there weren't many stories out there written for people like me, so decided to step in. After studying screenwriting at University, I'm now looking that all-important 'way in' whilst working remotely as a freelance market...
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Let There Be (The) Light
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 27 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Hadriel, an angel who has been demoted from her high status, wants nothing more than to get away from humans– a difficult feat seeing as she is the angel who processes human souls after their deaths. After finishing her tenure down in Soul Intake, she is forced back into her job when the nuclear holocaust occurs and four billion humans arrive at her...
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Macon, Georgia
In 2021, Alex completed her Master's degree in the Writing for Script and Screen program at Falmouth University. Currently, she is on the Shortlist for The Script Department. Her specialties include both speculative and dark comedy. She has a keen interest in dialogue and character development in her screenplays.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
A dark comedy about a woman who moves in with her dysfunctional family after an attempted suicide, only to discover she can now communicate with the dead.
(Six Feet Under meets Ghost Whisperer.)
New York, NY
Black. Queer. Robot. Ficus. Thumb. All five-letter words, some of which I might use to describe myself. For the sake of intrigue, I won’t say which ones. My aim as an artist is to create stories that explore the beauty and discomfort of being human with humor and heart.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
In 1950s small-town America, a pregnant British woman and a closeted gay man pose as husband and wife to run a dating agency—helping others find love while hiding the truth about their own.
Glasgow, Glasgow, GB
James is passionate about telling stories that reflect diverse experiences and underrepresented voices, especially from within the LGBTQ community. He began his career as an actor and is best known for playing Bernard Sumner in Anton Corbijn's cult classic film Control.
He turned to screenwriting in 2016, with his original screenplay Stan and Ma...
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Magic Center
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 28 Pages
As lead anchor on her mom's magic sports show, Rebecca Witchford struggles to maintain her integrity fighting the institutions her mother upholds.
No bio available.
Money Makers
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
When three millennial women with big dreams realize the deck is stacked against them, they enter into the world's oldest profession... marrying rich.
Glendale, CA
Alex is a fixer. A former Apple Genius, she can fix your phone. A former press manager, she can fix your image. A former PA for the Rockettes, she can fix… anything. She writes about broken families.
Sweet Magnolias (S4, E7), iHeart Radio’s Solve, PEG’s Jackie Cox Variety Show. Writers Digest Playwriting Award, USC Writing MFA, WIF/Blacklist Epis...
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NOBODY'S HORSES - AN 8-PART LIMITED SERIES - PILOT EPISODE - "YOU CAN'T GO HOME"
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
Nobody’s Horses is a dramatic limited series inspired by real events, where a disgraced veterinarian must rescue 2,500 wild horses from a military base before their NATO war games. Battling addiction, sabotage, and the haunting mystery of 122 horses that died overnight, he risks everything to get a shot at redemption
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
Viv (49, hormones raging) lives for her weekly cold water swim, but when she finds a body at the lake her life is turned upside down. Who was the dead man? Why does nobody else care? And how can she stop treading water and make her own life count?
London, GB
Stand-up comedian Caroline Mabey fell in love with screenwriting after turning her Edinburgh Fringe show 'Hair of the Dog' into a TV pilot. She has many projects on the go, specialising in deeply-flawed female protagonists. Her writing is deft, pacey and has a knack for turning the hilarious into the heartbreaking at break-neck speed.
Winner: BCG P...
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Oh My Gods!
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Animated
· 32 Pages
The Press Secretary has one of the most stressful jobs, and when the government resides on Mount Olympus, even a bubbly perfectionist like Iris, the rainbow goddess, is in over her head when she becomes the spokesperson for the problematic pantheon.
Noel Wiggins
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 39 Pages
A police force that curtails the supernatural assigns a jaded, veteran officer and a strait-laced recruit to thwart the forces of darkness from inciting Armageddon, but conquering their differences might prove more problematic.
Honolulu, HI
Jamie Marchetti started his writing career as a scientific writer and excelled at sneaking puns into bland technical jargon and denying it. He now specializes in writing comedy and dramedy pilots and openly inserts puns into everything. His experience as an unsuccessful actor informed his writing as he works to write dialogue that won't make actors ...
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
A supervillain and superhero have happily fought each other since high school. But when their devotion starts to damage their professional credibility, they are forced to start fighting other people.
North Hollywood, CA
Ari is an award-winning screenwriter, a salty east coast expat, and a saltier chef. As an Irish Jew, he likes his screenplays to be as intersectional as his family reunions. He also loves genre tv, punchy act breaks, relatable characters and ridiculous worlds.
Prussian Blue
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 59 Pages
The daughter of a legendary thief makes her first foray into the world of high art crime.
Henry Harper
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 70 Pages
Four AGI Androids with heightened human characteristics are tasked with being counselors in The Overwhelm, a utopian paradise for trauma-free humans, each isolated from birth through the first 50 years of their life. But in a utopia designed for perfect people, the androids--neurotic, sarcastic, and surprisingly relatable--start to wonder: Who's co...
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New York, NY
Art Blount was a finalist for the 2008 Evans Harrington Grant for Best Novel‐in‐Progress, winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts 2007 Chapter One Fiction Competition, and a finalist for the 2007 Glimmer Train Award for New Writers & The Center for Fiction's 2013 Literarian Short Story Contest. He studied English Literature at Columbia University & ...
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REAL FAKE
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
Teen star Melissa Jo Taylor who was at the height of her career in 2008 when she overdosed and died. Rather than tell the world the truth, Melissa’s team replaces her with Murphy Jones, an orphan who happens to be Melissa’s exact look-alike. Fifteen years later, Murphy isn’t so sure she wants to be famous anymore.
Brooklyn, New York
Maura is a writer, actor, and producer from Virginia. She is currently the Development Executive at Barry Levinson's production company Baltimore Pictures.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Action
· 64 Pages
Commander Tommy DeLeon, an ex-Navy SEAL turned CIA operative, sparks a vicious gang war in Los Angeles. Alongside his devoted sister Angel—an unwavering LAPD detective—they battle the same ruthless criminal underworld, united in purpose but divided by the law.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lee Lucero grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the place where Bugs Bunny missed his left turn. He began his career in emergency medicine and is now devoting himself to writing full-time. Lee has received multiple awards for his work. Lee’s writing often explores the socio-cultural issues facing the Latino community. When he isn’t writing, Lee enjo...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
Desperate to keep custody of her kids, an overworked and underpaid fertility nurse is pulled into the international underworld of reproductive crime and must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect and provide for her family.
Long Beach, California
Mariyam was born in Bangladesh and spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia before her family moved to the USA in search of the American Dream. She has been shortlisted for Sundance’s New Voices lab, a semi-finalist for Screencraft’s Feature Film competition, and selected as a Film Independent Incubator Lab Fellow. As a Fellow, she wrote, directed, and ...
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· Drama
· 52 Pages
Sara Bowman-Moore hopes a summer in the Rockaways will save the relationship between she and her wife Joan, but as a traveling group of mermaids also arrive in the New York beach community, a secret from Joan’s past threatens to alter everything Sara knows about her wife.
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn-based writer, originally from Memphis, Tennessee.
Terminal Island
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· Sci-fi
· 55 Pages
In a near-future Los Angeles where citizens maintain happiness scores by taking out their rage on lifelike AI clones called "Abbies," a repressed woman trapped in a violent marriage begins to plot her escape — only to discover that the system designed to save her may be just as abusive as the man she married.
Los Angeles, California
Writer and trapeze artist living in beautiful Silverlake, Los Angeles California
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
In a near-future world where thoughts shape reality, a compassionate scientist and a group of extraordinary empaths must fight a covert, militarized faction bent on controlling humanity's consciousness.
Think INCEPTION meets BLADE RUNNER 2049.
Denver, CO
Steve Brown, a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, holds dual degrees in Journalism and English from the University of Arizona. In 2023, he transitioned from corporate copywriting (for popular brands such as Nintendo and Kaplan Test Prep) to pursue his passion for film and TV. Today, he dedicates his time entirely to screenwr...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 56 Pages
A stewardess struggles to maintain her independence amid a sexist workplace, growing pressures to settle down, and political threats to her bodily autonomy. Brace for impact.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 29 Pages
After Mickey is blindsided by a marriage proposal, she hides from her Mormon family in a local Salt Lake City dive bar, where she is confronted with a whole world she's never seen and a chance to discover who she is outside of the church.
Los Angeles, CA
Sierra is currently writing for Good Mythical Morning, a daily YouTube comedy show with 18+ million subscribers. She has previously written for the true crime series I Met My Murderer Online and the digital series TXT Stories. Utah born, Wisconsin raised, LA based. She loves writing characters with heart and a sense of humor. A few of her favori...
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TV Script
· Animated
· 61 Pages
Rockefeller Rabbit is the corrupt robber-baron leader of The Five Burrows, a Gilded Age underground city for prey animals. Faced with warring political parties, union strikes, economic inequality, and overpopulation, Rockefeller struggles to maintain control of a city on the verge of collapse while something sinister slithers in the shadows.
No bio available.
The Pavilion
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
A suicide attempt lands a golden-boy tennis prodigy in an upscale residential treatment facility, where his manipulative ex sabotages his last chance at recovery.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
After a near-death experience, a socially awkward yet endearing Vietnamese immigrant says goodbye to her life in the shadows by auditioning for the trashiest reality show in America.
Los Angeles, California
Born to Vietnamese refugees, Ryan Luong is a gay Asian comedy writer who just wants to live out his Carrie Bradshaw fantasy. After graduating from Northwestern with a degree in Radio/TV/Film, Ryan has worked as a Digital Writer/Producer for daytime talk shows such as "The Real” and “Rachael Ray.” His celebrity crush is Chris Hemsworth and favorite v...
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The Young Ones
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TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
A team of rebels fight to expose the corporation that determines life and death, in a world where immortality can be found in the medicine cabinet. THE BOYS meets SUCCESSION.
Los Angeles, California
Ryan Cunningham is an LA based writer from Brooklyn, NY who focuses on subversive sci-fi dramas with a psychological undercurrent. A BlackList Recommended writer & ScreenCraft alumnus.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 50 Pages
When a dedicated yet unstable immigration advocate takes on a case of a missing undocumented girl, she teams up with an FBI agent in a search to find her, only to put herself and those around her in extreme danger from a local vigilante border militia.
Tyler Pagan
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 46 Pages
On an observation post in deep space, a man close to death ventures out to save another human, even though it may be too late for both of them.
London, GB
Trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 59 Pages
An ancient house with cryptic etchings emerges on Native land, drawing indigenous archeologist, Kiana Powell, into a race to decipher a supernatural mystery and determine what the house threatens to unleash.
Los Angeles, CA
Tamara’s storytelling journey began at the age of eight, when she accidentally gave her babysitter’s children nightmares. Thankfully, she has moved beyond scaring kids, for the most part, and is now engrossed in sharing character-driven stories that illuminate the unique perspective of neglected voices in the world.
In 2024, she was selected as ...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
In 1953, after being blackballed from Broadway for being gay, a musical producer joins forces with the savvy owner of a struggling Burlesque nightclub to create a brand new musical that will blow the socks (and knickers) off the entire industry.
Los Angeles, California
Raised on a farm in rural Australia, Andrew has been writing since he was eight years old, when he wrote a series of hand-written stories titled, “Snake of Doom”. He promises he’s improved since then.
As the youngest of four, growing up during the worst drought in Australian history, Andrew knows what it’s like to struggle, both physically and ment...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Western
· 66 Pages
In Revolutionary-era Mexico, a Chinese-Mexican girl recruits legendary women soldiers to defend her people from ruthless bandidos.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Other
· 59 Pages
ADMISSIONS is a murder mystery about the slaying of a student at an isolated Northeast girls’ boarding school. The discovery of her body sends Martha's Vineyard into a frenzy to find the monster on campus.
Sonali Mehta
No bio available.