Joseph Mwamba

Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's recently a 2024 Disney Fellowship Finalist, named ISA's Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch, and wrote an episode as a Writers' Assistant for Season 2 of Netflix’s upcoming action anime TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL. Prior, he was the Writers’ Assistant for Audible's A STRANGE CASE and Writers' PA for Netflix's YOU & Apple TV's THE AFTERPARTY. Previously an assistant for two TV Lit agents at UTA, Joe was selected into Rideback Rise Fellowship as a Circle Member, Coverfly's Endorsed Writer Program, and Roadmap Writer's Support Staff Initiative. His Y.A. action dramedy THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX won the Grand Prize in the Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Pilot Competition.

Honors & Awards

Disney Writing Fellowship Finalist - 2024

Top 25 Screenwriters to Know, ISA - 2023

Grand Prize Winner, Emerging Screenwriter Action & Adventure Pilot Competition - THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX - 2022

non-WGA

Male, BIPOC, Black

THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX

(Y.A. Action Drama - HARRY POTTER meets KINGSMEN)

The unsettling arrival of a new teen helps a principal launch the CIA’s secret prep academy into disorder as faculty and students find their secrets are no longer safe.

FINDING A LOST PEN

(Y.A. Mystery Dramedy - VERONICA MARS meets SEX EDUCATION with a dash of WANDAVISION)

A teen with crippling social anxiety starts a high school detective agency, secretly using its intel on students to find his missing twin sister.

Coming-of-Age, YA

Male, BIPOC, Black

unrepped