Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered Diverse Voices this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the best way for writers to grow is through feedback. That is why WeScreenplay is providing 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 Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing.
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 Spring 2021 Diverse Voices Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| (Dis)Connected | Jaime Osnato-Rosario |
| (UN)Claimed | Carolyn Ratteray |
| 1885 | Ayra Arshad |
| 9/22 | Michelle Farley |
| A Christmas Cheer | Clint Ford |
| A Revolutionary Act | Lisa Russell |
| A Semi Serious Time | Marissa Lessman |
| ABCD | Laurie Lamson |
| Acid Trip Pilot | Kendall Brezinski |
| After Saint Marks | David Scala |
| Ain’t My Type of Hype | Tanisha Lynn Jackson |
| Alaska | Baakal Geleta |
| Almost There | Azan Kung |
| Altered | Shea Brunson |
| Alto Pictures | Archer Miller |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| American Psyche | Richard Nguyen, Vinita Mehta |
| Amir | Jibrael Younes |
| And There Is Fight… | Kent Faulcon, Julie Su |
| Apache Street | Sal Baldenegro |
| Aphrodite & The Apocalypse | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| Around Town | Michael Choi |
| As You Wish | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Astrological | Kabir Chopra |
| At Home | Marissa High |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Aura | Yaminah Mujahid |
| Baabul | Ronika Merl |
| Back to the Go-Go | Travis Houze |
| Banana | Gina Song |
| Barefoot in Bengal | Abhi Kumar |
| Beards | Katy Erin, Lucia Towers |
| Beyond the Veil | Michael Mortimer |
| Bitsuie | Brandon Bitsuie, Krystal Dominguez |
| Bitter Root | Robert Frankel |
| Blind Love | Tsu Shan Chambers |
| Blood, Sweat & Heels Ep. 1 Snow Bunny | Laura Day, Arielle Rodgers, Darilyn Burtley |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Blue Veil | Shireen Alihaji |
| Body Parts | Ryan Simantel |
| Bonejack | Logan Shaw |
| Bright Side | Maria Eliades |
| Bubble Trouble | Derek Siow |
| Burn | Philippe Bowgen |
| By the Book | Noelle P Wilson |
| By the Code | Victoria Renee Bell |
| Cairo | Ahmed Siddiqui |
| Camp Brave | Michael Rodriguez |
| Captain P.O.C. | Daniel Contreras |
| Carpe Diem | Peter Gazdag |
| Carpet Arms | Nas Saraei |
| Challenger | Skye Emerson |
| Chère Amie | Rosemary Griggs |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| City Spirit | Warren Clarke |
| Cleopatra In Rome | Jon Davis |
| Coconut Confidential | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen |
| Code Switch | Quamé Hamlin |
| Code-Switch | Eric Myrick |
| codeswitch | Sasha Kai Parker |
| Coexist | Jude Arthur |
| Coming Home | Corey Prince |
| Coney | Jesse Klein |
| Confessions of a Las Vegas Phone Girl | Aimee Adell |
| Cottonheads | Alexandria Mitchell |
| Crescent | Edward Worthy |
| Cretaceous Enigma | Heather Parra |
| Cricket Song | Evelyne Tollman-Werzowa |
| Crickets | D Harding |
| Cry For Me | Michael Gaty |
| Dai-Lo | Hymnson Chan |
| Dark Shepherd | Abraham Marcos |
| Dating | Abril Carpio Marion |
| Dawn Of The Apocalypse | Bret Grafton |
| Daydreamers | Soma Helmi |
| Deals | Monica Levy |
| Death Doula | Gaby Purchase |
| Deep East Texas | Rachel Liebling |
| Demon Chasers | Barbara Good |
| Denham Fouts | Michael Johns |
| Desmond and the Devil | Sydney Dire |
| Dethroned | Aleksandra Milanova |
| Devour | Jasper Chen |
| Dog of War | Katterina Powers |
| Dogfall | Nifemi Madarikan |
| Dragonfly | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Drama Kings | Brian Ezeike |
| Dregs | Kate Scarpetta |
| Ectogirls | Elena Perez |
| El Vals (The Waltz) | Alycya Magana |
| Elephant in a Safeway Bag | Roderick Stevens |
| Emblems | Danny Van |
| Emergency Break | Danielle Schwartz |
| Enjoy Every Minute | Cindy Lee |
| Fairy | Vic Mackenzie |
| Fallen | James Delio, Billy Mac |
| Family Planning | Alyson Pomerantz |
| FET 12 | Gia El Aynaoui |
| Fight Like A Girl | Joe Villanti |
| First Responders | Ellie Guzman |
| Flares | Shruti Tewari |
| Flock | Ariel Mahler, Easton Angle |
| Flying Bird’s Diary | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Forever Damned | Julius McCullough |
| Forged | Patricia Prozzi |
| Fresh(wo)man | Arianne Binette |
| Friar | Akono Kamau |
| From Afar | Andrew Guerrero |
| From Nepal, With Love | Eva Acharya |
| Fuckboy | Melisa Monts, Shereen Younes |
| Garfield Park | Sean Farley |
| Gaybies | Keshia Coe |
| GeriOsity | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Glitter Box: Same Shit Different Show | Jennifer Le Roux |
| Golden Age | Jon Davis |
| Good Mother, Lavender Vine | Stacey Pierce |
| Grad School Rejects | Saurav Pattanayak |
| Gus | Todd Bird |
| Happy Reparation’s Day | Sharon Nash |
| Harrington’s Crossing | Candace Patrick |
| He’s a Winner | Warren Clarke |
| Heavy Flow | Paige Wood |
| Hell’s Kitchen | Jake Delaney |
| Hello I Must Be Going | Sara Hallowell |
| Help UnWanted | Skye Emerson |
| Heo Quay | Tea Ho |
| Hey, Wait A Minute! | Michael-Leon Wooley |
| Hijabi | Nora Hawari |
| Hinge | Kelly Turner |
| Hoodz | Christina Brandon-Gomez |
| Hound | Warren Jones II |
| How To Snatch A Crown | Dan Hass |
| How We Roll | Katey Clausen |
| Hustlers Anonymous | Peter Gazdag |
| I’m With AIDS | Warren Wagner |
| If I Didn’t Love You | Melinda Maerker |
| Infinity Plus One | Stefani Fink |
| Inheritance | Jake Lockett, Sean Kurzweil |
| Into The Midnight Sun | David Zuckerman |
| It Ain’t Over | Elise D’Haene |
| Jade | Eris Qian |
| Jakayla | J. Gabriel Ware |
| Jingi | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| Jiyan | Daniela Saioni, Mazdak Taebi |
| Jocko | Leo Finnie |
| Judgement House | Alan R. Baxter |
| Judgmental | Loic Pichot |
| Kamikaze Blue | Sebastien Tobler |
| King of Lesotho | Amadou Diallo |
| Koi | Doua Moua |
| Kyle | Jena Kaplaniak |
| La Familia | Spike Morales-Westlake |
| La Luna | Maritza Flores |
| Lady Reporter | Michael Lucid, Michael Lannan |
| Leap | Douglas Spaltro |
| Little Bit Long Way | Sophia Riley Kobacker |
| Little India | Raj Balu |
| Living Hell | Tina Louzon |
| Locked From Inside | Jessica Johnston |
| Love Always, Undying | Allen Davis |
| M-Cap2 | Sarah Granger |
| Made Guy | Grace Foster, Christopher Vallario |
| Maestro | Arianne Villareal |
| Maplecove Manor | Melissa Sahagian |
| Michiyu | Royce Wilmot |
| Mid-Youth Crisis | Mekhai Lee |
| Mike & Rita | Kim VanDenBerg |
| Miserable People | Jeff Hindenach |
| Miss Dickpuncher | Emily-Anne Mikos |
| Missing Mandy | Jordan Lavender |
| Mixed Bag: The Pilot | Justice Whitaker |
| More Or Less | Glenda Braganza |
| Mourning After | Rikki Bleiweiss |
| Ms.Guided | Mason O’Sullivan |
| Murder Ballads | Jennifer Dunn |
| Nevertown | Megan Weaver |
| Nice to Meet Me | Tyler Martin |
| Night Of The Purple Moon | Scott Cramer |
| No 3 Hollythorne Cottage | Denis Crampton |
| No Mercy | Erin Williams |
| No Thank You | Brittany Kelly |
| No Traveler Returns | Randall Thom |
| Noise! | Juli Del Prete |
| Normal | Liesl Wilke |
| North Beach | Christian Canterbury |
| Off Color | Owen Thiele, Haley Daniels |
| Offstage Secrets | Laurie Lamson |
| Omega Station | Kristiana Roe, Mike Roe |
| On the docks | Selina Akhtar |
| On Thin Ice | Laura Ranney |
| One Small Visit | Jo Chim |
| Ordinary Humankind | Rishad Olpadwala |
| Original Tru | Adam Huss |
| Pages From the Green Book | Janae Green, Aileen Natalia |
| Paradis Reclaimed | Becca Davis |
| Passionfruit | Kristian Holland |
| Pearland | James Shippy |
| Penitent – “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” | Teresa Jusino |
| Philly Boys | Kevin Giles |
| Piney Ridge | La’Chris Jordan |
| Pink Moon | Sal Bardo |
| Playing With Matches | Dana Sutherland |
| Please Please Please | Renee Swindle |
| Poe | Allison Chaney |
| Pond Scum | Sye Mac |
| Positive Lee | Dale Winton, Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen |
| Pricked | Jessica Jacobs |
| Pride | Ronald McCants |
| Pride | Patrick Sherman |
| Primos | Scott Lopez, Jesus Jauregui |
| Prince of Lavendale Street | Bev Chukwu |
| Prisoners of a Dark Night | Timothy Bryan |
| Private Lives | Cate Holahan |
| Pulp Tales! | Daniel Contreras |
| Put Out This Fire | Sade Corneille |
| Quarter-Life | Antonello Velez |
| Quarterback | Jack Steeley |
| Queen of Newburgh | Lisa Cole, Veronica Moody |
| Rahul’s Arrangement | Akhil Vaidya |
| Rebel Rebel | Kirsten Chen |
| Rebirth | Alfonso Rodriguez, Carlos Hiciano |
| Renaissance | Kwame Granderson |
| Righteous | Desiree Elder |
| Ripple | Heather Faris |
| Running | Nina Kentsis |
| Saigon Song | Stephane Ly-Cuong, Marie-Christine Courtes |
| Saving Face | Jeannie Bolét |
| Scoundrel | Amir Mosallaie |
| Secret Sun | Christian Maxwell, James Clark |
| Seed of Knowledge | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Seven Pines | Germain Collinge, Lisa Antonecchia |
| Sham of a Marriage | Audrey Knox |
| Silver Lining | Shalishah Franklin |
| Society of Strays | Christopher Chou Slomiak |
| Sojourn | Christopher Murray |
| Sojourning | Lamar Lewis |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| South China Sea | Yancey Wang |
| Spank! | Rey Rinehart |
| St. Agnes City | Michelle Hsu |
| St. Marie’s | Brandon Hines |
| Star of Siam | Eda Benjakul, Marisa Marchitelli |
| Starting Six | Naomi Lambert |
| Steam | João Dall’Stella |
| Stop!: A Horror Anthology | Chris Wiltz |
| Strange Desires | Doug Allen |
| Straw | Curtis Adair, Jr. |
| Stray Dogs | Alyse Kane Riley |
| Street Lights | Terrence Thompson |
| Street Safe | Briana Cox |
| Sunday Morning Tears | Keith Zivalich |
| Surviving Eden | Lisa Gonzales |
| Switch! | Brent Lewis |
| Take Care | Leah Hulgin |
| Take Me Home | Jack Taylor Cox |
| Teacher’s Pests | Hannah Lewis |
| Terminal Squad | Eric Roberson |
| Test Kitchen | Katie Melody |
| The Air in Verona | Mick Z. Hunter |
| The Amen Sisterhood | John Doble |
| The Art of Selling Yourself | Gavin Cutter |
| The Art of Small Death | Sevyn Cole |
| The Baby Shower | Mike Peters |
| The Big O | Rebecca Gant |
| The Butter Street Hitchhiker | Chris Hicks |
| The Chocolate Kandinsky | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Choice Image | Richard Winzeler |
| The Cleaner | Cara Loften |
| The Dog Pack | Katy Erin |
| The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Fear | Lane Bachelder |
| The Fierce Urgency Of Now | Doug DeVita |
| The First Martian | Dani Milton |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The German King | Adetokumboh M’Cormack, Matt Feit |
| The Golden Dragon | Timothy Eng |
| The Grove | Richard Nguyen |
| The Harvest | Doua Moua |
| The Heartbreakers Club | Lexi Nicholas |
| The horned God | Alessandro Guarino |
| The Jewel of Africa | Immanuel Dube |
| The Last Black Man on Earth | Joseph Harold, Joel Harold |
| The M&M Boys | Gino DeMarco |
| The Mama Cho Show | Quincy Cho |
| The Nut Farm | Warren Clarke |
| The Other Side | Nonie Shiverick |
| The Pandora Window | Ray Chambers |
| The Perfect Life | Aladen Gulmohamad |
| The Queen of Night | Seda Anbarci |
| The Real McCoy | Tyler Ham Pong |
| The Red Fort | Shyam Popat |
| The Rival Poet | Arlynda Boyer |
| The Scholarship | Kelvin Ho |
| The Show | Patrick McGrath |
| The Song & Dance Man | Alford Daley |
| The Step Down | Reni Papananias |
| The Stroll | Miki Mosman |
| The Theory of Moral Relativity | Elisa Manzini |
| The Three of Us | Janna Jilnina |
| The Turn | Daesha Lynn |
| The Untamed | Olga Holtz |
| The Waiting Room | Karsyn Jarrett |
| The Wash | Sterling Macer |
| The White Girl | Renee Rothstein |
| The Wolf Spider of Seattle | Gabe Braxton |
| There Goes The Neighborhood | Asha Walker |
| This Is How It Ends | Melia Gabriel |
| Those We Leave Behind | Will Stewart |
| Those Who Wander | David Neal |
| Through the Veil | Peter Macaluso |
| Tierra Paz (A Pacified Land) | Eugene Michael Santiago |
| Tiger Burning Bright | Eris Qian |
| Timebound | Gaurav Seth |
| To The East | Ambika Subramaniam |
| Trokita | Bernardo Duran |
| Troop Mulligan | Betsy Morris, Venessa Solen |
| Two Fluid Ounces | Rebecca Semik |
| Undertaken | Jamie Severson |
| Unpunished | Muhannad Quteish |
| Vindicated | Victor Simone |
| Violet, Violet | Rachel Leyco |
| Voice | Levi Buchanan, L. Kris Gowen |
| Walk and Roll | Lesley Hennen |
| Waves | Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller |
| We Said Forever | Levi Buchanan |
| We Were Never Meant to Survive | Charlotte Daniel |
| Weekend at Bernie’s III | Craig Miller, Pete Johnson |
| Well, I Guess This Is Growing Up | Brian Cheng |
| What is Love, For the Reason I Love | Daniel Fisher |
| Whiteness of Bones | Melissa L. White |
| Will & Kate | Daniel Grove |
| Window | Audrey Rogers |
| Work the Rooms | Sanjit Patel |
| Yogini | Maria Niglio |
| You and (A)I | Sharmini Kumar |
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