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< Back Staton Rabin IMDB Staton Rabin is an optioned screenwriter who adapts IP— including stories based on real people and true events— on assignment for film and TV producers. She has a chameleon-like ability to write convincing characters and scripts set in any century or country that attract top talent as attachments. Her feature script based on one of her three YA novels from Simon & Schuster, BETSY AND THE EMPEROR, had Al Pacino attached to star as Napoleon Bonaparte and won the Montreal Independent Film Festival and Festival Napoleon in Paris. Her spec feature script SAVING MARK TWAIN (drama-comedy inspired by a true story) won the PAGE Awards Bronze Prize, Vail Film Festival, and is an ISA Fast Track Genre Winner and is ready for packaging. Known for heartfelt, poignant, and funny scripts with A-list actor-bait roles, Staton has adapted Louis Sachar’s THE CARDTURNER (Sachar also wrote HOLES), Alex Rosenberg’s World War II Adventure/LGBTQ Romance THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW (Austin Film Festival Semifinalist script), Tim Ashby’s historical adventure novel with a Black hero, RANGER, into a TV pilot (BLACK RANGER), and two psychological thrillers, INSTRUMENTS OF NIGHT and RED LEAVES, based on books by Edgar Award-winning novelist Thomas H. Cook. After earning her BFA in film at NYU, Staton became a freelance story analyst for Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and the former William Morris Agency, taught screenwriting, and has evaluated thousands of scripts for producers and screenwriters. Honors & Awards Winner, Bronze Prize Historical Film, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - SAVING MARK TWAIN - 2023 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW (Drama Feature script based on the book by Alex Rosenberg) - 2023 Winner, Best Feature Script, Montreal Independent Film Festival - BETSY AND THE EMPEROR (Staton Rabin's script based on her YA novel from Simon & Schuster) - 2021 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 40+ SAVING MARK TWAIN Dramedy Broke and blocked, Mark Twain thinks things can’t get worse—until an insufferable reporter from India, Kipling (23), lands on his doorstep desperate to interview his idol, steals Twain’s daughter’s heart, and throws his life into chaos. Might this maddening fanboy be the only one who can save him? Based on true story. BETSY AND THE EMPEROR Drama A rebellious teen English girl befriends the most feared man on earth-- Napoleon-- while he's held prisoner by the British on St. Helena, grows to love him, and risks her life on her dangerous schemes to help him escape. Based on true story and Staton Rabin's YA novel (Simon & Schuster); book sold in 15 languages. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Bittersweet, International Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Michael Monteiro michaelm@netscape.com IMDB The Black List Michael Monteiro was born in Detroit, Michigan, as Michael Henry Monteiro, proudly of Cape Verdean descent. The eldest of six children, he spent his early years in Wareham, Massachusetts, before moving to the Bronx borough of New York City. He is a graduate of the UCLA Extension Feature Film Writing and the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television’s Professional Screenwriting Programs. An award-winning screenwriter and retired U.S. Navy Iraq War veteran, Michael brings discipline, honesty, and emotional depth to every project he undertakes. His screenwriting achievements include winning the Wiki Screenplay Contest for My Yoga Mat and being a quarter finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Contest for Soul Food Saigon. His experience in acting and directing—supported by multiple directing awards—continues to influence his cinematic approach, emphasizing strong visual storytelling, complex characters, and authentic human emotion. Beyond his work as a screenwriter and director, Michael has appeared in several film and television projects, including I Thought You Knew (2022), To Kill a Cop (2021), and Abigail Haunting (2020). He remains committed to telling stories rooted in truth, character, and lived experience. His latest project, Lessons Unbound, is currently in post-production, marking the next step in his expanding body of film and television work. Honors & Awards Winner, Best Screenplay, Festigious International Film Festival, MY YOGA MAT - 2025 Winner, Best Screenplay, Wiki: Screenplay Contest, MY YOGA MAT - 2024 Winner, Best Direction, IndieFest Film Awards, TO KILL A COP - 2022 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, Black ONE WHO GIVES VICTORY Crime, Drama An Iraqi exchange student, covertly recruited by extremists, struggles with her conflicting loyalties between duty and a forbidden romance with a Black Muslim classmate as her secret life raises suspicion and begins to draw the attention of the FBI. SOUL FOOD SAIGON War, Romance During the Vietnam War, a Black soldier deserts the army to build a new life with his Vietnamese girlfriend, risking everything to open a soul food restaurant in Saigon as racial conflict and military police close in around them. JUVIE HALL Crime, Drama A mental health counselor is determined to save a teenage girl who suffers with acute depression. She is being released on probation from the Juvenile Detention Center, "Juvie Hall"; her life on the outside is uncertain. Character-driven, Crime, Limited Series Male, Black unrepped

< Back Wade Wofford wade@happywasteland.com IMDB Writer/Director/Producer Wade Wofford tells stories that start fights—good ones. His grounded sci-fi and socially charged dramas push audiences into debating the ideas at their core, inviting viewers to look into corners of life they may never have considered. His third feature, Urban Ed, a searing drama drawn from his years teaching in an inner-city classroom, is now finalizing distribution. The film earned a Stowe Fellowship, reached the Nicholl semifinals, won Audience Choice at the Boston International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. Wofford’s previous feature won the Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival, and his sci-fi script about a school for logic won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay at the Nashville Film Festival. His production company, Happy Wasteland, is in post on three shorts he co-wrote, produced, and directed—proof-of-concepts for a grounded sci-fi series. A vagabond of both the world and the industry, Wofford has lived and trained across the country: drama at the University of Georgia, directing at the LA Film School, and screenwriting in New York via Roadmap Writers. He’s also worked as a DP, gaffer, and scenic artist, believing deeply in understanding the medium from every angle—and in building a creative family along the way. Honors & Awards Stowe Story Labs Fellowship - URBAN ED - 2018 Semi-Finalist - Nicholl Fellowship - URBAN ED - 2022 SemiFinalist, Feature Drama - Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - DEATH OF A NATION - 2023 non-WGA Male, 40+ FEST Feature Dramedy - AMERICAN HONEY meets LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Months after a fight that fractured their family, a 22-year-old MIT robotics student invites his estranged and complicated twin sister to Fuck the Vote — a jamband festival colliding with a presidential election — bringing a reckoning with politics, gen Z purpose, and each other. THE COMMON MAN Feature - Limited Location Crime Drama - RESERVOIR DOGS meets MICHAEL CLAYTON When a down-on-his-luck engineer stops to use the bathroom at a roadside rest by the freeway, he stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping involving a controversial corporate lawsuit…and a bizarre social experiment. PLUS 50 Limited Series - Grounded Sci-Fi Drama - DOPESICK meets AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH An intertwined environmental drama about what life will look like 50 years into a realistic future: as the world runs out of water, a Chinese businessman, African immigrant and American survivalist struggle to find ways for their families to adapt and survive. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Dark, Naturalistic, International Male, 40+ unrepped

Member News DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE : The Independent Writers’ Caucus has added seven new members to its board of directors. Meg LeFauve, Howard A. Rodman, Lorien Mckenna, Garrick Dion, Nitza Wilon, Elizabeth Kaiden and AJ Feuerman will all join long-standing organization chairs James Moorer, Kimberly Sparks, Kim Turner and Rich Orstad. Read the full article here . Congratulations to Joey Clift , whose short film POW! has qualified for the Oscars in the Best Animated Short category! POW! is an animated comedy short about a young Native kid trying to find a place to charge his video game console at a powwow. It marks one of the first times powwows and ledger art have been featured in animation. Just announced at AFM : Megan J. Wilson 's survival thriller AVALANCHE EXPRESS is set to shoot in the Alps in spring 2026! Produced by Prestige International Pictures and directed by J.P. Watts, the story follows a train conductor who leads her passengers to safety after an avalanche buries their commuter train. Elise Salomon has been named as one of the Austin Film Festival's 25 Screenwriters to Watch . She writes present-day folk horror. Her feature climate drama THE 53RD is a semifinalist at AFF, and her horror pilot THE RESTLESS placed as a Second Rounder. In addition, her project CAOINEADH -- one of three horror finalists at AFF 2023 -- is now being packaged with Black Mansion Films. Rebekah Mueller was chosen as one of five writers, out of 2000 applicants, for the Paramount Writers Mentoring program . The program offers emerging TV writers mentorship and career development with showrunners and EPs. Each writer is paired with two executives from CBS network and CBS Studios. Stacey Russell 's feature coming-of-age dramedy THE OPEN AIR was selected out of over 11,000 submissions to be one of six drama feature finalists for the Austin Film Festival 's screenplay competition this year. Danielle Weinberg ’s directorial debut, INVASION ’53 , screened at San Diego Comic-Con. Well-known sci-fi actor Jeffrey Combs stars in this sendup of 1950s sci-fi movies. The short film premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Cinequest Film Festival, and won Best Live-Action Film at the Grand Rapids Comic-Con Film Festival, Best Short Film at Seattle Worldcon 2025, and Best of Show at the Rocket City Short Film Festival. On its festival run now, the movie has been selected by more than twenty-five festivals. Ellen Ancui 's directorial debut short film, SAVERIO , is rounding the festival circuit, both nationally and internationally. The film has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the Jeonju International Short Film Festival in Korea, the New York Women in Film & Television Award for Excellence in Directing, and four Audience Awards for Best Short. The feature version of SAVERIO is currently in development. In February, Ellen will shoot her next short film, which will have an A-list cast. THE FARM — a serialized mystery-thriller podcast created and produced by Melody Herr — premiered its first two episodes on September 1, with new episodes dropping each Monday for nine weeks on all major platforms. Sponsored by Little Fish Entertainment, the audio drama follows an architect whose carefully built New York life unravels when family secrets resurface on her childhood farm. The series also showcases IWC members Leah Simmons as a staff writer and James Moorer performing three roles. Gina DeAngelis ’s short film adaptation DOORS premiered at the Indie Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was named to Roadmap Writers' Top 25 Short Films of 2025. It won Best Short Story Adaptation at the Highlands Horror Film Fest. In addition, Gina’s feature script THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH won Best Regional Horror Feature Screenplay at GenreBlast Film Festival. As Director of Events for the LA Children's Media Association, IWC member Sabrina Mansfield leads monthly Q&As with notable children's media leaders. She recently interviewed Trisha Tamashiro Gray, Director of Current Series at Disney Jr. In October, Timothy Mallon 's independent TV pilot POUR DECISIONS screened in New York City and Los Angeles , following two sold-out shows in Seattle. POUR DECISIONS is a single-camera mockumentary set in a last-chance Seattle café. A festival run is planned. Candace Egan 's horror screenplay HARDWARE HELL, co-written with Ellie Wallace, is a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival . Additionally, Candace's screenplay SECOND SET, inspired by her time playing community college tennis in her 50's, won Best Dramedy Screenplay at the Atlanta Women's Film Festival. Reenita M. Hora won this year's CineStory Asian & South Asian Writers Scholarship . The award is awarded to an outstanding Asian or South Asian writer whose screenplay reached the quarterfinalist level or higher in this year’s Feature Retreat & Fellowship Contest. Kathryn Orwig placed as a Silver Winner in the 2025 Page Awards with her feature screenplay PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET. The script is inspired by the true story of ruthless Pirate Queen Ching Shih who led 40,000 pirates into a brutal clash with the Portuguese Navy and the Chinese Empire—risking everything to save her loyal crew & proving women warriors are just as brave (& successful!) as men. Suzanne Griffin was invited to attend Stowe Story Labs Fall 2025 Writers Retreat in Stowe, Vermont, with her Blacklist Recommended feature drama screenplay THE LANGUAGE OF THE SLEEPING HOUSE. The script was also a Stowe Story Labs Accelerator Fellowship Semifinalist.

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< Back Dani Hanks danihanks@danihanks.com https://www.danihanks.com Dani Hanks (they/she) is a disabled writer/director based in NYC. After winning the 2024 Austin Film Festival, they were named one of ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025. Dani grew up elbow-deep in human organs at their mom’s pathology lab in Porterville, California. A direct result of inhaling too much formaldehyde in their formative years, they dove headfirst into the entertainment industry and received a BFA in Drama at NYU Tisch. Drawing from their experience as the only purple-haired snowflake in a deeply conservative family, they promote empathy for underrepresented identities through offbeat stories centered around diverse found families. Dani approaches the taboo with both levity and nuance and loves finding humor in the mundane. Dani has worked on projects in development at FilmRise, RKO, and Josephson Entertainment, and is a fellow of Stowe, Disability Belongs, and the WGAE SSTP. They are a full-time meme connoisseur, part-time AD, former member of Mensa, and have 10 years of experience cutting animal tissue for medical research (much to the dismay of their pet rats). Honors & Awards Josephson Entertainment TV Fellowship, Austin Film Festival - THE G.Y.M. - 2024 ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025 - 2025 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled THE G.Y.M. 1/2 Hour Workplace Comedy – ABBOTT ELEMENTARY in a Planet Fitness When a neurotic woman spends her life savings to rescue her hometown’s infamous gym, she and her ragtag employees must turn their shithole into shinola to compete with the fancy fitness chain across the street. KNOTTY 1-Hour Dramedy Determined to discover what caused her taboo fantasies, a sexually-repressed PhD student infiltrates the BDSM scene under the guise of “research,” but unexpectedly falls in love with this wholesome world of lustful LARPers, Pokémon perverts… and one of her professors. MYSTERY SISTERS 1-Hour Female-led Crime Procedural A reclusive techie with a mysterious past and a crime-junkie wannabe actress hit the road in a ramshackle Winnebago, racing to solve abandoned cases before the trail goes cold. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Medical, Crime, Procedural, Dark, Snarky Female, Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled unrepped

< Back Julia Bergeron julia.bergeron@gmail.com http://www.juliabergeron.com Julia is an LA-based multi-hyphenate creative and storyteller. She gravitates to stories about underestimated heroes and the question: What would you do for family? As a mom to both a biological and adopted child, she defines “family” as traditional, adoptive, step, and found. Her feature screenplay Austen Time has an A-list star attached and Phil Traill (Chalet Girl, Modern Family, The Last Man on Earth) is set to direct. Her WW2 female-led drama Across Enemy Lines is currently being shopped by producer-director Natalie Simpkins (Father’s Day Breakfast with Troy Kotsur, The Token Groomsman with Andie MacDowell, Sarah Hyland, Taylor Lautner) and Pavel Edelman (The Pianist, Oliver Twist, Lee) set to DP. Meanwhile her horror feature Murder Van (starring Rachel Alig and Chad Ridgely) is in post-production. Her screenplays have earned repeated top placements at the Writers Lab, Austin Film Festival, Humanitas New Voices Fellowship, Stowe Story Lab and others. In music, she’s created 3D video story projections for artists including Rihanna, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Eminem, Pharrell Williams, Lana Del Rey, and Blue Man Group. In branding, she’s led campaigns for Tiffany, Cirque du Soleil, Ritz-Carlton, Porsche, and more. Honors & Awards Finalist, Historical Film, Page Awards, ACROSS ENEMY LINES , 2025 Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Programs and Fellowships Application Tangerine Entertainment - AUSTEN TIME - 2023 Runner-up, Script Pipeline - First Look Project - CHARLOTTE D'ARTAGNA - 2023 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female AUSTEN TIME Feature, Rom-Com - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE meets BACK TO THE FUTURE When Jane Austen is transported to the present-day, she dives into modern life, even falling in love. But when her books begin to vanish, she must somehow return to her time to prevent her legacy, and that of all the women writers she influenced, from disappearing forever. ACROSS ENEMY LINES Feature - WW2 Female-led drama - BEHIND ENEMY LINES with women In winter 1943, a closed-off WWII nurse and her team are shot down over Nazi-occupied Albania. To complete a mission that could save thousands, they must escape across the treacherous Accursed Mountains with the uneasy help of a rebel leader hiding his own agenda. CHARLOTTE D’ARTAGNA Action Comedy - THE THREE MUSKETEERS + BACK TO THE FUTURE High school loner and fencing champ, Charlotte D’Artagna, and two other teens are flung back in time to 1625 Paris, where life sucks big time. To get home, they must band together to save the Queen and prevent a war. It’s all for one and one for all – without wifi. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, YA, Dark, Snarky Female unrepped

< Back Heather Huntington Sheree Guitar, Sheree Guitar Entertainment IMDB Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington are a set of mittens you left at Sundance (you can figure out which one is which). As the child of a narcissist and mother of two neurodiverse kids (Heather) and a would-be beauty queen who grew up driving the bull semen route (Danielle), obviously they write comedy. Specifically, they write edgy and sometimes nerdy feminist comedy with a pop culture bent. After studying writing at USC and Emerson, After studying writing at USC and the University of Chicago, Danielle & Heather have staffed on CBS’s "The New Adventures of Old Christine," created podcasts for Meet Cute and Aural Stories, and won audio fellowships with the Orchard Project and Gotham Film & Media Institute. Their romantic comedy feature, "The Proposal Spot," is available on Amazon and Peacock. When not writing, they teach storytelling and narrative podcasting at the New York Film Academy, and host their monthly table read series, "CoPilots," at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Jeff Sagansky Harvardwood Writers Program - ATHERTON - 2021 Fellow, The Orchard Project's Episodic Writer's Lab - PILGRIMAGE - 2019 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - THE BOOTY EMBARGO - 2009 Current member Female, 40+ TWICE EXCEPTIONAL Single cam comedy pilot - The Goldbergs meets Atypical When a couple who finds out their quirky son is actually gifted AND on the spectrum, they learn that absolutely everything they thought they knew about parenting no longer applies. PILGRIMAGE Single cam comedy pilot - Broad City meets The Crucible What happens when the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of 1620s England gets stuck with the OGs of white privilege--the pilgrims? RACHEL III Single camera comedy pilot - Richard III via Ten Things I Hate About You When back-brace-wearing loser Rachel Gloucester can't win over the popular kids at her high school by buying her way onto the student council, she decides to kill them instead. Because if you can't beat 'em, hire a hitman to make it look like an accident. Character-driven, Female-centric, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Silly, Slapstick, Snarky Female, 40+ repped

< Back Marie D. Jones James Moorer - One Moorer Management IMDB Marie D. Jones is a screenwriter with two produced films, “Secrets Beneath the Floorboards,” which premiered on Lifetime Movie Network and currently airs on Amazon Prime under the name “House of Lies;” She also wrote the romantic comedy, “Mistletoe Connection,” which airs on UPtv. She wrote and co-produced three short films that made the festival circuit, including two for RockChalk Pictures, and a Stephen King Dollar Baby film titled “Graduation Afternoon.” Her sci fi, horror, and thriller scripts have placed highly in many major competitions and she has optioned several projects in the past. She was recently chosen as a winner of the 2025 Story Farm Fellowship. Marie is also the author of 30 non-fiction books on the paranormal, cutting-edge science, UFOs, human development, health and wellness, and unknown anomalies. She is a former MUFON field investigator and a trained disaster preparedness responder. She has appeared on The History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” and on over 2,500 radio shows and podcasts worldwide and is a staff writer for New Dawn Magazine. Her articles have appeared in dozens of print and online publications. She is a published novelist, including the horror novel The Dim, and has written a line of disaster preparedness eBooks as well as over two dozen specialty journals. She lives in San Diego, CA with her son, Max, two dogs, and a cat. Her website is www.mariedjones.com. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female CRASH Grounded SciFi/Thriller - Manifest meets Close Encounters An air disaster expert and a park ranger find evidence of a massive cover-up involving a mysterious plane crash with no bodies recovered and reports of a possible UFO in the sky when the plane went down. BLACK DESERT Horror/Thriller - The Thing meets Predator A Marine unit led by a female sergeant must defeat an army of deadly supernatural beings while on a desert training mission that prey on their individual fears. SENTINELS Horror/Thriller Storm of the Century meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers A single mother and her autistic son team with a disillusioned pastor to escape their mind-controlled neighbors and the mysterious entities surrounding their town after the boy hears a series of numbers on a radio station warning of an alien invasion. Female-centric, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Limited Series Female unrepped

< Back Shoshana Rosenbaum John Zaozirny - Bellevue Productions IMBD Shoshana Rosenbaum is a writer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. Her feature directorial debut, The Other You, won Best Metro DC film at the DC Independent Film Festival and the Narrative Feature Award at the Chesapeake Film Festival. Shoshana makes films that use magical realism, science fiction and horror to explore alternate realities and gender dynamics. Her short films --The Goblin Baby (a supernatural thriller about the first year of motherhood), Hide And Seek (an alternate reality tale about a rock musician turned stay-at-home dad) and Night Waking (a domestic sci-fi thriller) — have won awards and screened at festivals across the U.S. and internationally. In 2021, Shoshana was part of the inaugural cohort of the Destroy All Boundaries Directing Mentorship and named DC Filmmaker of the Month by the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment. Her work has been recognized by The Bitch List, Stowe Story Labs, Austin Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival and DC Shorts Film Festival, among others. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 40+ A.I.L.A. Drama/Science Fiction A visionary tech CEO invents a domestic AI to help raise her family -- a that project threatens to derail both her career and her relationship with her children. A near-future, feminist Frankenstein. THE LAMIA Drama/Supernatural Horror An ambitious young woman fighting the toxic culture of the venture capital industry confronts what it means to be a monster when she accesses power passed down through the ages by shape-shifting snake-women. AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS Drama/Supernatural Horror An overwhelmed new mother inadvertently awakens a dark spirit in the forest, which threatens to replace her. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism Female, 40+ repped

< Back David Hal Chester davidhalchester@gmail.com https://www.davidhalchester.com/ With the promise of a futon to sleep on, David left L.A. for Tokyo after a family tragedy — and never looked back. In Japan, he channeled the angst of his broken home and queerness into female-driven dysfunctional family dramas. The result to date: 10 produced features streaming on Lifetime or Amazon Prime, an international prize-winning LGBTQ short film, and two multi-finalist feature screenplays. David has benefited greatly from Roadmap Writers’ Top Tier group, Corey Mandell screenwriting workshops and mentoring by writer/producer Ellen Sandler (“Everybody Loves Raymond”). When David isn’t obsessing over his latest WIP, he’s either learning how to cook a new gourmet dish, practicing his kanji, or teaching fun dance moves to his mini-doxie Dandy. For more information visit: davidhalchester.com Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, LGBTQ+, 55+ TILLIE Feature Period, Coming-of-Age Female-Driven Drama LITTLE WOMEN (2019)/ ANNE WITH AN E (NETFLIX 2017)/ JANE EYRE (2011) An intellectually gifted farm girl rebels against her tyrannical father and risks her life to get an education to follow in the footsteps of her beloved teacher. BIG SISTER Feature, modern-day female-driven drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY / BLUE JASMINE A successful woman abandons her career to save her destitute younger sister, but her efforts backfire and she becomes the one who needs to be saved. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Naturalistic Male, LGBTQ+, 55+ unrepped

< Back Shauna Ray Ratapu Shaunarayratapu@gmail.com http://shaunarayratapu.com The Black List Shauna Ray Ratapu (she/her) is a California-born, Aotearoa/New Zealand-seasoned Gen X storyteller whose work blurs the line between the tragic and the absurd. A former high school drama teacher and theater company owner, she now writes women-centric, character-driven dark comedies infused with serendipity and a touch of magical realism. A Page Awards Semifinalist, Stowe Story Labs Semifinalist, and two-time Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, Shauna draws inspiration from a life raised by a single, alcoholic archaeologist mother and a bar-owning, gunslinging grandmother — figures who taught her that chaos and humor often share the same barstool. After nearly two decades in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Shauna returned to Southern California in 2019. Her writing carries the layered textures of both worlds, shaped by her Māori husband of 30 years and their three exceptionally talented grown-ass children — two queer, two women, all Indigenous, and one disabled. Through them, and through her cross-cultural lens, Shauna explores the beautifully messy intersections of identity, resilience, and belonging. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, The Page Awards - HEN - 2025 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - STARS ALSO DIE - 2025 Semifinalist, STOWE STORY LABS FELLOWSHIP AWARDS - 2024 Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Female, 55+ STARS ALSO DIE Feature | Darkly Comedic Family Drama HIS THREE DAUGHTERS meets THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS but with a cosmic twist When their emotionally abusive, Carl Sagan-obsessed mom is put on hospice care, four estranged siblings reunite for a hilariously dark and cosmically chaotic Thanksgiving. HEN Halfhour Dramatic Comedy | Mystery | SciFi In the spirit of HACKS , BETTER THINGS , and a splash of THE GOOD PLACE A sharp-witted empty nester becomes obsessed with a mystical sourdough and the enigmatic TikTok baker behind it, sparking a cosmic unraveling of her reality, identity, and everything she thought she’d already baked in. BIG WHEEL Feature | Darkly Comedic Family Drama THE SKELETON TWINS meets HONEY BOY in THE FLORIDA PROJECT When a helicopter mom with PTSD takes in her recovering “asshole” brother, her suburban sanctuary begins to crumble with every reminder of the feral and fearless little girl she was in 1976. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Dark, International, Magical Realism Female, 55+ Unrepped