Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay TV Lab this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
WeScreenplay believes that the best way for writers to grow is through feedback. That is why WeScreenplay provides free, written feedback with every single competition entry. We are glad to hear from so many of you how helpful the notes were and excited to see WeScreenplay writers are improving all the time!
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We are thrilled to advance entries to the Quarterfinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing. Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on November 21st!
We also want to acknowledge all of the strong scripts that did not advance. If your script is not on this list, it does not at all mean that our judges didn’t enjoy the read – in fact, we’re confident some of the scripts not advancing will bring their writers success in the very near future. Thank you for entering your script and always keep writing.
Without further ado, the 2023 WeScreenplay TV Lab Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| 10 | Kate Harpootlian |
| 1L’s | Marcus Perkins |
| 45 STORIES | Eric Berg |
| A Hero’s Job | Hannah Lewis |
| A Teacher’s Story | Zachary Brenner |
| After Power | Vinnie Mancuso |
| Agency of Record Episode 1 “Nuts!” | Donald McKinney |
| Alienated | Sarah Burton |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| All’s Right in Jackson Heights | Ben Bagli |
| Alphabet City | Josh Bromfield Davis |
| Always A Bridesmaid | Cynthia Mersten |
| An Untitled Future | Jesse Harris |
| And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning, The Eighth Day… | Stephen Laughton |
| Angel of Skid Row (Pilot) | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Anthony & Miguel – “Pilot” | Trevor Brown |
| Are You Wild Like Me? Ep. 1: Dirt Universe | William Nawrocki |
| ASHOKA THE GREAT | Abitha Ramachandran |
| ASOMNIA – TV Pilot | Stuart Creque |
| Assisted Living | Charlie Griffin |
| AXP | Aldous Davidson |
| Bad Blood | David Vieux |
| Bad Fairy | Steve Holbert |
| Bad Influencer | Caroline Connolly |
| Baggage | Rachel Relman |
| Barklyn | Marcus Perkins, Jess Newman |
| Basilica | Seamus Heffernan |
| Beast by Beast | Shakthi Jothianandan |
| Belladonna | Danielle Tjoelker |
| Biogenesis | Robin Fusco |
| Black Lung | Doug Mallette |
| Black Mormon | Eric Stroud, Rory Kulz |
| BLOTTER | HF Crum |
| Broken Arrow | Tommy Tang, Emma Van Slyck |
| Brother’s Keeper | David Zeltser, Joseph Greco |
| Business As Usual | Ryan Cunningham |
| BUTCH | Rae Binstock |
| Bye Lines | Annie C. Wright |
| Cabbagetown Confidential | Erik Long |
| Camera Obscura | Ian Baaske |
| Camp Creep | Sarah Ward |
| Cancelled | Emily Tannenbaum |
| Carpetbaggers | Matt Thomas |
| Cassie The Witch | Steven Rawski |
| Chivalry | James Yantko |
| Chosen Fam | Ben Locke, William Rose |
| Church Boy | David Chang |
| CIRKO | Des Burnison |
| Clean Living | Seth Birkan |
| Confidential | Lindsay Gartner |
| Cooked | Jacob Andrews |
| Cricket Club of Canon High | Priya Mohanty |
| Crips | Brian Koukol |
| Cult Town | Katie Crone |
| Cutthroat | Diana Glogau |
| D1 | Eli Stern |
| Damsels and Dragons | avery koenig |
| Dan Patrol | Casey Jones |
| Daughter Theresa | Izak Rappaport, Theresa Picciallo |
| Deadweight | Rachel Imbriglio |
| Demented | Tristan Mercado |
| DEPENDENTS | Brandon Cohen |
| DESERT RATS | Ken and Juan Pablo Arquelio and Arias Muñoz |
| Devil Good | Goldie Jones |
| Diss Hit Crazy | Brandon Morganstein |
| Dog Spelled Backwards | Sammy Leach |
| DON’T SAY GAY! | Kyle T. Cowan |
| Door-to-Door Murders | Gina Batzia |
| Downtown | Brian Stone |
| Emerging | Nia Robinson |
| Empty Lots | Matt Clemons |
| Eon | Marine Mondelot |
| Erased Midlander | Holly Holdsworth |
| Eugene | Derek Arnold |
| Every Man for Himself | Mike Johnston |
| EXPOSURE | Michelle Aldridge |
| F*CK CANCER | Mary Ashley Burton |
| Fairview | Mia Volta |
| Fakes | Jessica Jiji |
| Far from the Tree | Leticia St Remy |
| Fear Family | Craig Hillman |
| Firecrackers | Kelly Tang |
| Flad | Daniel Doczi |
| Founders | Linda Denson |
| Free Spirits | Katharine Densmore |
| Genius High | Nadia Osman |
| Ghost Quest | Hilah Johnson |
| GHOSTING | Daniel Vignolo, Matthew Harrison |
| GOLD REIGN | Tanita Ross-Cady |
| Golden Triangle | Dennis Chong |
| Grant Me The Insanity | Casey Costello |
| GreyHats | Alia Zeid |
| Grifters | Weslie Lechner |
| Grover’s Corners | MJ Weerts |
| Hail Mary | Michele O’Connor |
| Hair, Nails and Murder | John Luke |
| Hanging Around | Natalie Wood |
| Happy Heart Kona | Isabel Thottam |
| Holistic Admissions | Laurie McKinsey |
| HOLLYWOOD, ARKANSAS | Darren Coyle |
| If I Were You | Ellen Barry |
| Impossible Jigsaw | Patrick Skeyhill |
| Impregnation | Lauren Certo |
| In Dreams | Haley Dercher |
| In Judgment | Anne Easton |
| In Rod We Trust | Christos Poulos |
| Indigo Valley | Ashley Parker |
| Influenced | Lauren Certo |
| Influencza | Dave Horner |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| Invisible | Jodie Anders |
| Jake Sandberg | Michael Tannenbaum, Andrew Nadeau |
| Jericho Jackson: Private Eye | Josiah Edwards |
| Jim’s Town | AJ Ramson |
| Kaiju Stepson | Minda Wei |
| Kickback | Tom Kavanagh |
| King of the Moon | Tyler Landis |
| Kiss & Makeup | Catherine Durickas |
| Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
| LAURELS | Sara Kiener |
| LEAP OF FAITH | Adam Hiebeler, Carl Lauricella |
| Let Me Out | Devin Berg, Jake Skillings |
| Liars | Liz Biscevic |
| Life Goes On | Damian Barray |
| Line of Scrimmage | Rachel Thundat |
| LONE WOLVES | Luci Olivia |
| LONG ISLAND GIRLS | Ellen Ancui |
| Looking for Love in the Rearview Mirror | Christa Butler |
| Lovesick | Sabrina Lu |
| Mad Nellie | Bridget Visser |
| Maidens | Megan Robinson |
| Max! | Scott Boxenbaum |
| Medium Young | Erin Carter |
| Midnight Cinema | Jon Davis |
| Mineral Peak: Pilot | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Misery Man | Harrison Myles, Rob Dionne |
| Miss Bigley | Matt Yulish |
| Missing Trace | Ryan Atimoyoo |
| Morlock | Anthony Povah |
| Mostly Virgin | Baldvin Kari, Ana Lazarevic |
| Mr. Pleasure | Nicole Kemper |
| My Father The Sociopath | Charlotte Miller |
| My Roommate’s A Ghost | Adam Myers |
| My Very First Mid-life Crisis | Nadeen Currie |
| Myths & Legends | Andrew Nadeau |
| Nancy Boys | Jay Pichardo |
| New Olympus | Matthew Nicholson |
| Nice Jewish Boys | Robert Axelrod |
| No Place For U.S. | Amanda Minchin, Chris Danuser |
| North Fork | Remy Barnes |
| Northport Nannies | Brittany Worthington |
| Not Super Legal | Carrie Fishbane |
| NUBARIUM | Marcus Tappan |
| O, Father | Briana Haynie |
| Okay, OK | Laura Walters |
| Oneiros | Anson Brasher |
| OPERATION CONDOR | Jody Hadlock |
| Orphan Brotherhood | Celina Dobson |
| POSSESSED! | Jacob Harpel |
| Pot Life: a Pilot | A.J. Leonard |
| President of Earth | Matthew Montgomery |
| Presto Change-O | Michael Tannenbaum, Andrew Nadeau |
| Proxima | Darren Joe |
| PROXY | Kelly Kennemer |
| Purdy | Lindsay Levy |
| Purim Shpielers | Tallulah Bark-Huss |
| Quantum Corps | George Makrinos |
| Quantum Entanglement | KC Kramer |
| Queen Mary | Kate Imy |
| Queen Street | Kristina Mazzarelli |
| Queenie | David Huang |
| Raising Fern | Natalie Wood |
| Reaching for Rye | Andrew Guerrero |
| Red Dawn | Kathryn Loveless |
| Red Hook Records | Jared Hada Smith |
| Red Shift | Stephen Scarlato |
| Restavek | Regine Mont-Louis, Obiajulu Chibututu |
| Reynmar | Kaith Karishma |
| Riptide | Jimmy Marble |
| Rustic | Arlene Bogna |
| Sacred Heart | Madeline Scholl |
| Sacrilegious (Pilot) | ALEXANDRA STONE |
| Saltville | kristen tepper |
| Samoan / American | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Say Uncle | Larry Collins |
| Screwed | Siena Streiber |
| SECRET SECOND FAMILY | Jen Howell |
| Shady Retreat | Barry Leach |
| Sheriff of Sturgill | Monis Rose |
| SHOWBIZ | Max Kliman |
| Side Quest | Michael Tannenbaum, Louie Aronowitz |
| SIMORGH | Farzin Farzam |
| Six. Triple. Eight. | Krystal M. Harris |
| Son of a Mother | K.Page Stuart Valdes |
| SOUL SEARCHING | Vee Saieh |
| South Side Story | Stan Moroncini |
| Space | Shannon Sipher |
| Speaking Spanish | Alejandro Ramirez |
| Spokes | Savannah Lucas |
| SPRINGTIME | Danny Newell |
| Star Ducks | Jake Lynch |
| Steamtowne | Mischa Pfister |
| Supported | Rick Cisario |
| Sweet Little Unforgettable Things | VP Anderson |
| Sweet Spawn of Mine | Jacob Harpel |
| Take Two | Natalie Wood |
| Tamber Dawn | Benjamin Lewis |
| TEMPERANCE (and other Virtues) | Alexandra Hayes |
| Terror and Virtue | Ernest Pysher |
| THE AGE OF DESIRE | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Antipodes | Brenda Clarke |
| The B-Team | Heidi Lux |
| The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
| The Family | Adam Gozdanker |
| The Friend Group | Jessica Friedman |
| The Gang Gets Diverse | Jordan Champagne |
| The Golden Age of Television | Tobiah Black |
| The Goodbyes – “Pilot” | ALEXANDRA STONE |
| The Goon Show | Daniel Contreras |
| The Great Big Quest | Eliot Fish |
| The Greens | Ned Dougherty |
| The Heat | Ben Carter Olcott |
| The Hole in the Woods | Rachel Greenhoe |
| THE HOUSE OF TANG (f.k.a. Empress) | Lisa Iannini |
| THE JUDAS BRANCH | Bill Loiselle |
| The Lavender Jungle | Jon Davis |
| THE LAVENDER PANTHERS | Heather Farlinger |
| The List: A Single Lady’s Guide to Finding the Perfect Baby Daddy | Brit Cowan |
| THE MENLO HOUSE | Ryan Vaughn |
| The Molly Maguires | Colin Ryan |
| The New Hospital | Kelsey Llewellyn |
| The People Team | Jonathan Weisbrod, William Stribling, Russ Nickel |
| The Pod | Diogo Beltran |
| THE PROGENY – “I Know Who You Saved Last Summer” (pilot) | Christopher Isenegger |
| The Protégée | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Remaining | Michael Greenwald |
| The Resurrectionists | Jon Wierenga, Jay Thomas |
| The Seaward | Benjamin Lewis |
| The Severing | Ash Lazer |
| THE STORYTELLER | Antonio Sacre |
| The Troubles | Tom Kavanaugh |
| The Untimely Demise of that Awful David Schwartzman – Pilot “Where the *%@# is Phil?” | Rudi O’Meara |
| The Vegetarian Zombie | Jake Lynch |
| The Very Gay Bookstore | CK Kimball |
| The Wild Unknown | Sam Robotham |
| The Wrong Candidate-Pilot | John Ravitz |
| The Year Before It All Ends | Aaron Clippinger |
| Thick Skin | Robert Axelrod |
| This Is My Brother | Brent Minderler, Jesse James Dean |
| Thistle & Sage | Tara Le Reynolds, Benjamin Phelps |
| Those People | Andrew Zeoli, Christian Wagner, Greg Stevens |
| Threestyle | Matt C. Dawson |
| Tiger Child | Angela Cavallin Chantria Tram |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Toledano | Arnon Shorr |
| Transcendent Shadows | Stephanie Brandolini |
| TRAXATE PHARMACEUTICALS PRESENTS: “WHAT GOES UP, MUST GET DOWN”: A SUPLI REALITY SERIES EXPLORING THE BEYOND | Frank Spiro |
| Trigger Objects | Nik Perring |
| Two Birds | Isabel Weiner |
| Under Developed | Sabrina Lu |
| Under The Influence | Carleigh Foutch |
| Unsinkable | Kate Imy |
| Upstaged | Jenna St. John |
| USA Jesus in Space High School | Cody Peterson |
| Vera | Shannon Brady |
| Water & Power | Andi Delott |
| We’re in a Cult Drinking the Kool-Aid | Greg Gleason |
| Wernher | Jason Ward, Kevin Ward |
| What the Actual | Shona Tuckman |
| When Joey Met Gemma | Britt Wilkinson |
| White Gold | Benjamin Del Vecchio, Jair Kornegay |
| White Rabbit | Alexandra Knies |
| Wonder Boys | Pab Sungenis |
| WORLDS APART | Thomas Gaunt |
| Writer’s Block | Elisandro Gonzalez |
| X | Eli Stern |
| You Must Be This Tall | Randall Reese |
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