Independent Writers' Caucus
Mage Lanz
Mage Lanz is screenwriter and story editor currently working in feature development as a story editor at Inzide Media in Los Angeles. She’s written twenty screenplays and has one produced feature, with producing credits on upcoming projects. She was on last year’s Grey List and has placed highly in programs including the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab, Nicholl, the Disney/ABC Writing Program, and the Austin Film Festival, where she also worked as a paid reader. She’s also the author of an unpublished nonfiction book, “The Monist Mindset,” which explores the concept of oneness across philosophy, science, and religion, and an upmarket fiction novel “Inferno”, based on a screenplay of the same name.
Honors & Awards
The Grey List 2025 - Horror/Fantasy Feature - Oona in Halloweenland
Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2024 - Drama Features Coventry; Oona in
Halloweenland; One-Hour Pilot - Anne Bonny
Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2023 - Comedy Features - Worst Date Ever; Valium
Times Day; Half-Hour Teleplay Pilot - Bye Bye Body
Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member
Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+
INFERNO
Feature - Psychological Drama/Romance - Phantom Thread, Marriage Story, Blue Valentine, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, In the Mood for Love
A newly divorced woman takes a job in a high-end restaurant where she ignites an affair with a brilliant but emotionally repressed chef whose need for control masks a lifetime of buried trauma.
BYE BYE BODY
Half-hour Pilot - Dramedy - Dead Like Me, My Name is Earl, The Good Place, Broad City, Barry
A young, naive ex-con decides to open her own sea burial business as a way to make quick cash, but soon finds out it’s much more complicated than she thought.
WORST DATE EVER
Feature - Romcom - Date Night, Before Sunrise, Walk of Shame, Before We Go
After being robbed of their phones and money on their first date, two middle-aged strangers must work together to get home on one crazy, awful night in Los Angeles.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Science, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Dark
Non-binary, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+
unrepped