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 scripts and building community.

The Writers Lab offers labs, retreats, ongoing mentoring, industry exposure experience, and craft programming.

Application Season

Applications for 2025 Labs will open on February 25.

  • 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
    Actor
  • 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


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