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.
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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 January 4th!
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 2023 Diverse Voices Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| ‘Lijah Blesse | Mervyn Allen |
| #nofilter | Jesse Klein |
| A Revolutionary Act | Lisa Russell |
| A Traveling Companion | e.e. Thorsen |
| After 12 | Cecile George |
| After Jacob | Cerina Aragones |
| Alamut | Travis Oberlander |
| Always You | Kristina Cooper Castillo |
| An imaginary tale | Arka Mukhopadhyay |
| And A Child Shall Lead Them… | JJ S |
| And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning, The Eighth Day… | Stephen Laughton |
| Apocalypse On The East Side | Chello C. Houston |
| ASTOUNDING | Amanda Kowalski |
| Astro | Abbie Rosenbaum |
| Awakening | Rain Pryor |
| AXP | Aldous Davidson |
| BACKLASH | Art Blum |
| Bad Blood | David Vieux |
| Bahar | Jibran Ahmed |
| Basilica | Seamus Heffernan |
| Belladonna | Danielle Tjoelker |
| Between a Fork & Chopsticks | Kim Putman |
| Birthday Girl | Rati Gupta |
| Bitter | Jesse Hughes |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Blood and Dreams – “Complicit” | Suzanne Griffin |
| BLOOD MOON | Sara Hallowell |
| Blood Suckers | Luis de Leon |
| Bone Appétit | Bobby Bridges |
| Brick Squad | Jot Singh |
| Brighter Side | Maya Almogy |
| Broken Men | Julian D. Paulsen |
| Buraku | Stephen Nolly |
| BURN PATTERN | Laura Kemp |
| Butterfly Girl | Colleen Parker |
| Bye Bye Body | Mage Lanz |
| Called to Sundance | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Calypso | James Barnes |
| Captain Blood | Kate Imy |
| Cassiopeia Jones and the Tachyon Teddy Bear | Stephannie Tallent |
| Celestial | Donna Trousdale |
| Chewed Up | Danielle Monique Brown |
| Cibolero | Kermit Lopez |
| COLOMI | Sam Yano |
| Colorful | Josiah Edwards |
| Complan Boy | Matt Joshi |
| Connie and Me | Maria Shehata |
| CRAZY, SEXY, MURDER | Jesse Klein |
| Crescent Sun | LaDarrion Williams |
| CRICKETS | D.A. Harding |
| DAMBALLA | Asheleigh Conley |
| Dating Emily Park | Kelsey Jones |
| Death at a Murder | David Sajadi |
| Deep River | Peter Forbes |
| DELPHI | Juli Crockett |
| DEStination | Desmond Ngai |
| Deus Ex Machina | Jason Ng |
| Devil Good | Goldie Jones |
| DO OVER | Sari Earl |
| Domino | Adriel Velazquez |
| DON’T SAY GAY! | Kyle T. Cowan |
| Don’t Tell Anyone | Rena Patel |
| Dope Friend | Matt Ferrucci |
| Drivers License | James Barnes |
| EDDIE | Eddie Leavy |
| Educated Black Men | Jerry Redfield III |
| Eight Thirty Four | Eli Brumfield |
| El Bandolero | Daniel Albino |
| Estranged | Chris Thompson |
| Everything in Its Right Place | Williy Lau |
| EXCESS BAGGAGE | Melody Herr |
| Fable of Eden | Segun Okubanjo |
| Finding Mordechai | Desmond Ngai |
| Fulfillment | D.A. Harding |
| Gay Bash | Taylor Geldart |
| GHOSTING | Aaron Lovett |
| Girl Gone Wild | Courtney Kocak |
| God’s No.1 Slut (Pilot) | Katherine Gwynn |
| Good Things | Dawn Saucier-Green |
| Haul of Fame | Tiana Williams |
| Helen’s War | Geneviève Paiement |
| Here Lies Tommy | Rodolfo Salas |
| HERE WE GO AGAIN | James Ward III, Bryon Keith |
| HIDDEN SECRETS | Nicole Black, Karl Fox |
| High Crimes | Melanie Abrams |
| Highgate | A.M. Khalifa |
| Improv | Genet Hughes |
| In Rod We Trust | Christos Poulos |
| Invisible | Jodie Anders |
| Invisibles | David R. Romay |
| Iron Mountain | Jeff Hindenach |
| Jewel of Oakland | Carter Stewart |
| K-Fraud | Daniel Young Kim |
| Kagae – S1E1 | Nick Martineau |
| Kapüy | Raul Walder |
| Kites Over Mekong | Dai Duong Nguyen |
| La otra cara (The Other Face) | Claudia Rivera-Vazquez |
| Lab Rats | Ahmed Tahseen |
| Le’z Trap | Kenny Wright |
| LEGALIZED | Bryan Torresdey |
| Lend Me Your Eyes | Maria Pustinger |
| LIES AND TRANSFORMATION (formerly TRANSITIONS) | Joan Butler |
| Little Wonder | Breeze Vincinz |
| Lobby Call | Michael Wooten |
| Looking for Knives | Ami Lum |
| Love Letter to Laos | Isabel Drean |
| Ludlow | Sarah Kennedy |
| Made in Heaven | Yiqing Zhao |
| Makwa | Johnny Cole |
| Mansa | Veronica Jordan-Davis |
| Mashallah | Anna Khan |
| Me rehúso | Miguel Cavadas |
| Methadone Mile | Jonathan Lugo, Christopher Martin |
| Miles Away From Home | Brit Cowan |
| Mitra | Pranali Kamble |
| MOJO | Joanne Bellew |
| NAVYMED | Sharon Enujioke |
| No More Allies. | Pierce Livingston |
| No Such Thing | Abhi Kumar |
| North Star | Joseph Vidal |
| Not Faire | Crystal Perea |
| Office Hours | Jocelyn Jacobs |
| On Brand | Melissa Hattab |
| One Park Place | Lisa Rodriguez |
| OPERATION CONDOR | Jody Hadlock |
| Paper Flowers | Melanie McCoy |
| Peace Warriors | Ann Anthony |
| Picture Us in the Light | Justin Brenneman |
| Pistol | Latasha Mercer |
| Play Date | Jessica Wei |
| POINTS NORTH | Liz Smith |
| PRIDE© | Greg Goodness |
| Prince of Late Night | Faraz Majid |
| Prosperity | Lalithra Fernando |
| Queen Kamari | Solomon Lovejoy |
| Rebooted | Jamaal Pittman |
| Refuge | Kathy Li |
| Repatriation | Keda Zeat Kane |
| RIPE FRUIT | Drew Westcott |
| Rise of the Hearts | Antoine Bonner |
| Rising Fawn | Rebecca Corrales |
| Roadkill | Harrison Hamm |
| Role: Model | e.e. Thorsen |
| Saint and the Sinner Lady | DECK Metellus |
| SAM GETS A CONCUSSION | Patti Parisi |
| Samoan / American | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Save The Night | Aaron Bradley |
| SAVED | Julian Awoonor Renner |
| SAY YOU LOVE ME | OMAR SALAS ZAMORA |
| Scrapes | Hannah Joyner |
| Sea Legs | Ariel Mahler |
| Second Jansens | Ricardo Varona |
| SEX, DRUGS ’N FUNK AND ROLL: I WANNA TESTIFY | sabrina williams |
| Sign Me Frankie | Hilari Scarl |
| SIMORGH | Farzin Farzam |
| SKIN | Urvashi Pathania |
| Slaycation | Ryan Luevano |
| Sonny Boy | Nicholas Maccarone |
| SOUL SEARCHING | Vee Saieh |
| SPRING CHICKENS – “Blueberry Vodka Lemonades (Pilot)” | Christopher Isenegger |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Steamtowne | Mischa Pfister |
| Strawberry Lassi | Lovinder Gill |
| Sweetwater Insurrection | Harry Locke IV |
| T.R.U.T.H, | Denise Jaxon |
| Tender | Trina Colon |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| THE AGE OF DESIRE | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Balls | BRADLEY JACOBS SIGESMUND |
| The Banksters | Marianda VP |
| THE BOOKER | Tiffani M. Davis, Michelangelo Missoni |
| The Border Crossed | Alex Jiang |
| The Charitable Ladies Society | Jaime Lynn Becker, Randee Ramsey |
| The Coup D’etat | Leqi Kong |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Eagle of Barwaq | Kiarash Anvari |
| The Free World | Marcus Thomas |
| The Green | Leigh Himel, Charlene Fisk |
| The Helmsman | Tod + Dr. Sydney Brilliant + Savion |
| The Hole in the Woods | Rachel Greenhoe |
| The Intelligence Game | Stephen Crooms |
| The Jugularist | Justin Solaiman |
| The Jungle | Mariel Gutierrez |
| The king of Halloween | Jett Jansen Fernandez |
| The Knocking at the Marsh | Gina DeAngelis |
| The Law of Talion | Bob Corley |
| The Light at the End | Arun Croll |
| The Mix Up | Rubyn Warren |
| THE PARKS | Grace Rowe |
| THE RECIPE | Mac Garnant |
| The Rise of Zorro | Jonathan Uriel Lopez Cruz |
| The Rival Poet | Arlynda Boyer |
| The Server | Kim Putman |
| The Seven Sutherland Sisters | Des Burnison |
| THE SILVIA SHOW | Alfredo Rodriguez-Allen |
| THE STORY OF ZACHERY AND JOSEPHINE | John Doble |
| THE STORYTELLER | Antonio Sacre |
| The Tejano | Derek Block |
| The Village People | Michael Busza |
| The Woman Who Knows | Alicia McClendon |
| Thirstygirl | Alexandra Qin |
| To Love Somebody | Stephanie Williams |
| Toledano | Arnon Shorr |
| Topher & Nate & The Invaders From Mars | Ryan Dooley |
| Tremendo Mission | Victoria Freyre Adler |
| Tricolor | Sara Bresciani |
| TRUE FALLS | Marlena Brown |
| Undersurface | Patrice Williams Marks |
| Unplanned Parenthood | Brandi McDowell |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| Water Strider | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Watts Vs. the World | Craig Pickens |
| We Were Nothing | Monty Fisher |
| What Doesn’t Kill Me | Anna Khaja |
| What Happened To You? | Alan Adler |
| Who You Were | Andi Avery |
| Windfall | Kalena Ranoa, Jason Director |
| Winona | Mahalia Latortue-Pridgett |
| Wonderland | Rashon Bryan |
| Wrath of Gods | Liz Prugh |
| 박 (Gourd) | Marcus Lux |
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