Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
The Writers Lab
Founded in 2015, TWL is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit supporting top-tier women and nonbinary screenwriters and filmmakers over 40 with the goal of developing projects so they will be packaged and produced.
The Writers Lab offers labs, retreats, ongoing mentoring, industry exposure experience, and craft programming.
Upcoming events include the inaugural TWL Canada, a 2-day Lab Intensive plus public programming in Toronto in December, as well as a Holiday Fest featuring a virtual retrospective of alumnae shorts followed by a multi-city happy hour celebration of our 10-year anniversary.
Application Season
Applications for 2025 Labs will open in February of 2025.
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The Writers Lab provides practical tools and spirited encouragement for the work of screenwriters whose point of view, fruit of their age and gender, has been consistently undervalued in the marketplace.Meryl Streep
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The more women’s stories we see, the more women are empowered.Nicole Kidman
Actor
Our supporters
The Writers Lab is made possible through the generosity of individuals and organizations committed to the art of screenwriting.
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Oprah Winfrey
The Cornelia T Bailey Foundation
Dirty Films
Lynch Hall Charitable Foundation
The Meg & Alex Weidner Family Foundation
Who’s doing the writing?
Only 12.6% of produced projects in 2022 were written by women over 40 — who are 25% of the world’s population.
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