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Fall 2023 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab Quarterfinalists

By June 1, 2023No Comments


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!

If you are interested in hearing the next time this lab opens, subscribe for updates here.

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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