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.
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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