Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
The Writers Lab
Our mission is to ignite the power of women and nonbinary screenwriters over 40 and activate the media industry to broaden the range of storytelling across visual platforms.
The Writers Lab offers labs, retreats, ongoing mentoring, industry exposure, and craft programming.
Founded in 2015, TWL is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit.
Application Season
Applications for the flagship international lab will open on February 25.
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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
Natalie Portman
The Cornelia T Bailey Foundation
Dirty Films
Lynch Hall Charitable Foundation
The Meg & Alex Weidner Family Foundation
The Lisa Cleff Kurtz & Michael Kurtz Foundation
Who’s doing the writing?
In 2024 approximately 20% of screenwriters working on the 250 top grossing films were women, significantly below equal representation.
And women over 40? They wrote only 12.6% of produced projects in 2022, yet are 25% of the world’s population.
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