New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers, are pleased to announce the selected screenwriters to participate in the second year of The Writers Lab.
The program is the only lab in the world dedicated to providing script development for women writers over the age of 40, and is funded by Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep.
The 12 participants for The Writers Lab 2016 are: - Carol Carpenter, The Guadalupe - Melody Cooper, The Sound of Darkness - Meredith DePaolo, Devil's Eye - Nancy Duff, Dead Drop - Kate Erickson, Roll With It - Tina Field Howe, Drone War - Christina Hulen, A Gentleman of Good Hope - Christine Toy Johnson, Jumping the Third Rail - Nanci Katz-Ellis, Blink - Leslie Longworth, One Bad Astronaut - Barbara Nunberg, Willful Blindness - Stephanie Stanley, The Radical The mentors attached to the Lab, slated for September 22-25, 2016, include: Jessica Bendinger (Bring It On, Aquamarine), Susan Cartsonis (What Women Want, The Duff), Lisa Cortes (Precious, Shadowboxer), Caroline Kaplan (Time Out of Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know ), Mary Jane Skalski (Win Win, The Station Agent ), and Kirsten Smith (Legally Blond, Ten Things I Hate About You ).Videos