Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay Diverse Voices 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 lab entry.
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 June 23rd!
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Without further ado, the Fall 2023 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
¡Raza! | Victor Adame |
’92 | Damian G |
12 STEPS TO BECOMING A LESBIAN | Victoria Bullock |
A Greek Tragedy | Alia Zeid |
A Little Death (Pilot) | Katherine Gwynn |
A TRAIL OF DIAMONDS | Roopal Badheka |
Abstract | Olivia Thomas |
AKARI’S GIFT | Euroy Tan |
All in my head | Ragan Mozee |
ALTER | Phillip Henry Wu |
American Heart | Ryan Atimoyoo |
Amethyst | Liz Biscevic |
Apocalypse Later | J.W. Hendricks, Madison Crews |
Archie B. Walker & the Infinite Zeitgeist | Warren Jones |
Area 51 | Josh Smooha |
Astronaut | Lukas Hassel |
Bachelor | Nicole Lipp |
Back in the High Life | Larry Collins |
BARILOCHE | Claudia Cifuentes |
Beanie and Bev | Frank Oteri |
Beavertown | Peri Lapidus |
BEN’S ALCHEMY | Gabe Quintero |
Beneath Broadway | Gerardo Maravilla |
Big Yellow Wang | Jarrett Jung |
Biter | Edward Varnie |
Black Apples | Daviesha Rice |
Black Caesar | Segun Okubanjo |
Blacktown | J. Ian Sample |
Blindsided | Yellowlees Douglas |
Bloodroot | Madeleine (Max) Olson |
Blue Winter | Madison Sean Flannery |
Blunt Instrument | Grace Jiang |
Bobby Socks | Caleb Tellez |
Bodega Queen | Michael Rodriguez |
Born This Way | Anna Grey |
Broken Promises | DJ Burr |
Bump | Kylie Eaton |
Camming Pilot by Sarah Markowitz | Sarah Markowitz |
Camouflage and Lipstick | Lawrence Daly |
Camp Creep | Sarah Ward |
Casket Sharp | Bo’Marie West |
Chips | CG Zarbock |
Cicada | Jade Edwards |
Clementine | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen |
Cling | AARON WARNER |
Colored Actress | Chloe Crawford |
Come With Me If You Want To Live | Tara Hall |
Corrections | Brian Thompson |
County Fair | Rudy Guevarra |
Crapshoot | Drew McInturff |
Cruise of the Amberjack | Evelyn Foster |
Culturally | Mallory Sparks |
CURVED | Sagar Vasishtha |
Cyberpink® (New Half-Hour Pilot) | P.A. Lopez |
Dead Ringer | Nick Janaye |
Dear Sylvia | Kylie Boersma |
Death Doula Diaries | Kari Barlas |
Devilspawn | Daniel DeShazer |
Dilation | Mike Sheriff |
Dimebag | Jimmy Prosser, Rohan Shankar |
Don’t Say It | Sam Given |
Drama Department | Richard Willett |
Dream Girl | Vasanth Santosham, Abdullah Khalil |
Dysphoria | Lana Bolycheva |
Eden | Josh Bromfield Davis |
ELEMENTAL | Aaron Michael Bailey |
ELEVEN ELEVEN | Matt Foss, Cora Vander Broek |
ELiRiUM | Nikhil Kamkolkar |
ELIZA | Jeremy Lloyd-Styles |
Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
Epstein’s Circle | Anica Vujanic |
Equity | Elizabeth Joyce |
F*A*N*S | Samuel Maxwell |
Far From The Tree | Dominic Sinocruz |
FAST BLACK | James Shaw |
Field of Nightmares | Daniel Albino |
Finally Good | Aditi Raina |
Fish Head | Yasmine Gomez |
FLY INTO THE WIND | Alvin Lau |
Folding Chair | John Malatesta |
FOUND | Antonio Aguinaga |
Friendmance | Olivia Haller |
From Rupi | Samhitha Saiba |
GANESHA | Yashavi Upasani |
GIN-VERSE: “A Ginless Bar” | Francesco Capussela |
Go To Sleep | Phet Mahathongdy |
Goblin Girl | Sadie Rae |
Golden Suns | Dongwon Oh |
Good Girl | Ik Jagait |
Good Times | Paloma Lamb |
Group | Annie Kaempfer |
Gumption – Bears and Bigfoot | Kristen Brown |
Gunslinger | Tyler Geditz |
H4 | Wyatt Ong |
HALF LIGHT | Susan Ferrara |
HAVEN | Addie Manis, Bob Oltra |
Hightower | Stephen Czerwinski |
Highway of Tears | Philip Elliott |
Honey Boba | Saro Acharya |
HONOR THY FATHER | J.Patrick Hayden |
How Not To Write a Romance Novel | Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez |
Humor Me | Tracy Curtis |
I Am Sin | Russell Charles Pitts |
I Love The Fucking Navy | Seth Harrington |
I’m Going to Kill The Moon | Kumail Rizvi |
Immaculate | T Wise, Jessie Levandov |
In Dreams, I am a Valley | Jon Ayon |
Indigent | Briana Cox |
Infinite | Lucas Caputo |
Influence | Laura Han |
Injured | Megan Mazer |
International | Maria Shoo |
Island Kingdom | Hiroshi Mori |
Isn’t It Lovely, All Alone? | Josh Bing |
Jake’s Ruse | Larry Hover |
JOANNA OF ARCO | Philippe Bowgen |
Keepsake | Maya Giselle Savedra |
Kosovo | Timothy Guay |
LA Made You… | bill sindelar |
Lady Boss | L. A. Hunt |
LAWYER IN HELL | Albert Wang |
Left Behind | Mary Bernthal |
Live Nude Girls | Devon Lang |
Living Between | Damian Barray |
Lordz of the Floor | Stephen Chen |
Lost and Found | Julie Seely |
Love Machine – Pilot | Joseph Graham |
Love Will Save the Day | Nathan Hale Williams |
Loveworm | Starla Blatcher |
LUKE | Laura Campbell, Laura Coover, Rocky Russo |
Madame Ram | Isabelle Davis |
Maede’s House | Andi Lipo |
Magical Negro | Sam Watson |
Make Them Pay | Aurora Wells |
Mary, Mary – “Genesis” (Pilot for A Limited Series) | Amira Richler |
Meek | Talisa Chang |
Mendel’s Mutations | Kate Delin |
Mental Me | Katusha Jin |
MESA VERDE | Sean J.S. Jourdan |
MILLER’S BLOOD | Ari Gill |
Millie’s Invisible Monster | Katherine Doolittle |
MOMO | Lisabelle Tay |
Monsterlogues | Kanja Chen |
Mostly Virgin | Baldvin Kari, Ana Lazarevic |
Mother Mehreen | Anna Khan |
Murder on Ice | Danielle Dallas Roosa |
Murder Wives | Maya Florin |
My Dad’s Harder Than Your Dad | Nathan Cox |
Nan’s Guide to Retirement | Teresa Bass |
Narayana Neurosis | karan talwar |
Nashaa (“Intoxicate”) | Jas Kandola |
Negro-tism | Aadrise Johnson |
Next Semester | Gabe Berry |
Night Witches | Phae Amara, Kathyrn Wright |
No Man’s Land | Rachel McClard |
No One Wants Us | Yagmur Tok |
Nobodys Heroes | Michael Elliott |
Nothing But Glory | Onil Lad |
Ocotillo | Sarah Granger |
Off The Grid | Zaelyna Beck |
Once and Future | Kylie Boersma |
Only Pedestrian in LA | Kana Felix |
Open Wide | Claire Ayoub |
Orange | Lisa Weaklim |
Orangeade | Faisal Qureshi |
Original Sin | Fred Munoz |
ORPHAN BROTHERHOOD | Celina Dobson |
Overtime | Avital Nathman |
P.O.K.E.T | Celina Dobson |
P.R.O.M. | Liz Maestri |
Paragraph 175 | Mickey Falcone |
Particular Peculiarities of a Sooty-Capped Puffbird | Michele Atkins |
Perspicacious | Josh Elliott |
Phoenix | Jot Sahi |
Pink and Purple | Jazeel Gayle |
Playdate | Lyndal Simpson |
Poly Life | Merridith Allen |
Powder Keg | John McPhaul III |
Preacher’s Kid | Cole Randall |
Priceless | Betsy Nagler |
Pro Bono | Barry Gibbs |
PROUD | Courtney Harrell |
Proxima | Darren Joe |
Race To Dominance – Project Ofugen | Brian Ezeike |
Randolph | Kevin Crawley |
Rear View | Timothy Gunatilaka |
Rearranged | Sajini Subhaskaran |
Reborn | Vinithra Rajagopalan |
Reconcilable Differences | Andrea Jaag |
Red Lighters | Angel Daahoud Murphy |
RELOCATION | WARREN CLARKE |
Remembering Joy | Sean Hinds |
Revolutionary Medicine | Kristen McNaule |
REVOLUTIONARY SPY | James Foye |
Ria’s Room | Mim Omari |
Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
Saving MLK | David M. O’Neill |
Sawyer & Company – Pilot Episode ‘Bad Hoss’ | Lizzie Hartree |
Scorched | Tuhin Basu |
Second Chance Offer | Sofian Khan |
Second Chances | Alison Minami |
She’s The Man | Callie Waligora |
SHORTSTOP | Howard Emanuel |
Sick Bitch | Julianne Fox |
Single Person | Matt Foss |
So Much More | Haze Beatty, G.Q. Watkins |
So No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way | Mary Kamitaki |
SOLEDAD AND FAITH | Arom Choi |
Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
Something Else | Joshua Sanchez |
Somewhere In The Sugar Cane | Kayla Jessica Serrano |
Soul City | Lori Webster Fore |
SOUL SEARCHING | Vee Saieh |
Soul Star | Daniel Albino |
Star Ducks | Jake Lynch |
Star Jammer | Rena Patel |
Straight Down The Aisle | Alessia Galatini |
Stranded | Jen Boxall |
STRAYS | Robert Wooldridge |
Stripper Moms | Tricia Horvath |
Stuntwoman | Merridith Allen |
Sway | Matthew Davis, Hillary Stringer |
Tackle & Bait | Genevieve McDevitt |
Take My Life | Larry Collins |
The Aadhyad | Anne Radl |
The Accent | Varun Guru, Alok Revi |
The Adjunct | Alexandra Comeaux |
The Alexandrite Ring | Harker Jones |
The Bend | Joe Holt |
The Book of Raquel | Olga Holtz |
The Candidates | Alanis Rodriguez Rivera |
The Conspiracist Kids | AJ Dinsmore |
The Extraordinary Disappearance of Morwenna Gray | Irene Jiang |
The Fault Line | Larry Collins |
The Great Infiltration | Jason Jacobson, Michelle Trantina |
The Guardian | Mike Cloherty |
The Harvest | Gabriel Brugni da Cruz |
The Homestudy | Derek Nicoletto |
The Last Drop | A. D. Smith |
The Last Good Day | TJ Berry |
The Left Hand of The West | Omar Iturriaga |
The Lesson | Debbie Simmons |
The Milky Way | Alexa Salimpour |
The Mill | Sharde Griffith |
THE NUT FARM | WARREN CLARKE |
The Out Foxes | Luigi Gonzalez |
THE PARK | Rojé Augustin |
The People’s Kingdom | Kristiana Roe, Mike Roe |
The Pull of Midnight | Drew Robinson |
The Redemptionist | Christina Arango Dowling |
The Sins of Our Mothers | francesca Nider |
The Struggle is Reel | Jennifer Tomlin |
The Traveller | Justin Neal |
The White Lobster | Gabriel Brugni da Cruz |
The Wickedest Woman in New York | Camille Gladney |
The Woman Who Knows | Alicia McClendon |
The Woodland Sparks | David Kato-Siegel |
Threestyle | Matt C. Dawson |
To the Fireflies | Kerri Gawryn |
Torchlight | Irene Jiang |
Transformed | Shannon TL Kearns |
Trick Selfie | Chad Wellinger |
Trip | Shannon Sipher |
Turn A Blind Eye | Edward Leech |
Two Steps Back | Rory Torres |
Typecast | Marcus Perkins Bejarano |
Under The Influence | Aadrise Johnson |
Unknown God | Alexander Blum |
Upstate | Kalisha Buckhanon |
Vampires of New York | April Creavin |
Venus Saves Earth | Alison Bonn |
Vesica Pisces | Jon-Carlos Evans |
Virtue of Power Pilot | Ayesha Agarwal |
VOODOO QUEEN | John Beaulieu |
WeHos | Adrion Trujillo |
What Happens At The Carnation… – “Pilot” | ALEXANDRA STONE, Alexandra Morrison |
What Remains | Adam Branson |
When We Were Boyz | Tao Moua |
While Black | Myles Williams |
Wild Camping | Suzy Miller |
WILL B. FREE | bill SINDELAR, Brad Gottfred |
Wing Man | Laura Walters |
Wonderful World | Melissa Kong |
WOULD YOU LIKE A BITE? | Ellie Anthony |
Wrong Shade of Blue | Kel Vance |
Yanks | Jennifer Bradford, Katherine Benjamin, Katharyn Stober |
YoungBloods | Stacey Russell |
YUMMY! | Pam Price |
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