Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
2022 Labs
US Lab
November 8 – 11
2022 Participants
UK & Ireland Lab
September 9 – 10
Submissions Closed
Europe Lab
April 7 – 10
Submissions Closed
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The Writers Lab provides practical tools and spirited encouragement for the work of screenwriters whose point of view, fruit of their age and gender, has been consistently undervalued in the marketplace.Meryl Streep
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The more women’s stories we see, the more women are empowered.Nicole Kidman
Actor
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.
Support brave, visionary storytellers