Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
2023 Labs
UK Lab and Europe Lab
Open to Residents of UK and Europe
Submissions CLOSED
2022 Labs
Our supporters






The Writers Lab is made possible through the generosity of individuals and organizations committed to the art of screenwriting.
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Oprah Winfrey
The Cornelia T Bailey Foundation
Dirty Pictures
Kate Hall & Gary Lynch
The Kurtz Family Foundation
Who’s doing the writing?
Women accounted for only 12% of writers working on the top 100 films of 2020—a decline of 8% from 2019.

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