Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
We are thrilled to advance entries to the Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing. Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on January 5th!
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Without further ado, the 2023 WeScreenplay TV Lab Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| Agency of Record Episode 1 “Nuts!” | Donald McKinney |
| Alienated | Sarah Burton |
| An Untitled Future | Jesse Harris |
| Assisted Living | Charlie Griffin |
| Bad Influencer | Caroline Connolly |
| Barklyn | Marcus Perkins, Jess Newman |
| Black Lung | Doug Mallette |
| Black Mormon | Eric Stroud, Rory Kulz |
| BUTCH | Rae Binstock |
| Camera Obscura | Ian Baaske |
| Cancelled | Emily Tannenbaum |
| Chosen Fam | Ben Locke, William Rose |
| Cricket Club of Canon High | Priya Mohanty |
| Crips | Brian Koukol |
| DEPENDENTS | Brandon Cohen |
| DESERT RATS | Ken and Juan Pablo Arquelio and Arias Muñoz |
| Every Man for Himself | Mike Johnston |
| Fakes | Jessica Jiji |
| Fear Family | Craig Hillman |
| Ghost Quest | Hilah Johnson |
| HOLLYWOOD, ARKANSAS | Darren Coyle |
| Impossible Jigsaw | Patrick Skeyhill |
| Impregnation | Lauren Certo |
| In Dreams | Haley Dercher |
| In Judgment | Anne Easton |
| Indigo Valley | Ashley Parker |
| Influenced | Lauren Certo |
| Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
| LAURELS | Sara Kiener |
| Lovesick | Sabrina Lu |
| Mad Nellie | Bridget Visser |
| Mineral Peak: Pilot | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Miss Bigley | Matt Yulish |
| Missing Trace | Ryan Atimoyoo |
| Morlock | Anthony Povah |
| Mostly Virgin | Baldvin Kari, Ana Lazarevic |
| My Father The Sociopath | Charlotte Miller |
| No Place For U.S. | Amanda Minchin, Chris Danuser |
| Northport Nannies | Brittany Worthington |
| Okay, OK | Laura Walters |
| OPERATION CONDOR | Jody Hadlock |
| POSSESSED! | Jacob Harpel |
| President of Earth | Matthew Montgomery |
| Proxima | Darren Joe |
| PROXY | Kelly Kennemer |
| Purdy | Lindsay Levy |
| Queenie | David Huang |
| Reaching for Rye | Andrew Guerrero |
| Red Dawn | Kathryn Loveless |
| Rustic | Arlene Bogna |
| Saltville | kristen tepper |
| Shady Retreat | Barry Leach |
| SHOWBIZ | Max Kliman |
| Side Quest | Michael Tannenbaum, Louie Aronowitz |
| SIMORGH | Farzin Farzam |
| SOUL SEARCHING | Vee Saieh |
| Sweet Little Unforgettable Things | VP Anderson |
| Sweet Spawn of Mine | Jacob Harpel |
| THE AGE OF DESIRE | Suzanne Griffin |
| THE HOUSE OF TANG | Lisa Iannini |
| The Lavender Jungle | Jon Davis |
| The New Hospital | Kelsey Llewellyn |
| The Pod | Diogo Beltran |
| The Protégée | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Seaward | Benjamin Lewis |
| The Untimely Demise of that Awful David Schwartzman – Pilot “Where the *%@# is Phil?” | Rudi O’Meara |
| Thistle & Sage | Tara Le Reynolds, Benjamin Phelps |
| Tiger Child | Angela Cavallin Chantria Tram |
| Upstaged | Jenna St. John |
| White Rabbit | Alexandra Knies |
| WORLDS APART | Thomas Gaunt |
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