Independent Writers' Caucus
Tracy Charlton
Tracy attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied English literature. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked in the film industry for several years before relocating to New York City, where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Her screenplay RAISED UP was one of the winners of The Writers Lab, which is funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, and was based on a story she did in journalism school.
Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. She also did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan.
She is currently in pre-production for her short script EARTH ANSWERS, which was one of the winners of the WeScreenplay Short Script Lab in 2024. Shooting is scheduled for March, 2026 in San Francisco.
Tracy currently lives in Marin County with her son and an emotionally needy Golden Retriever named Pickles.
Honors & Awards
Stowe Story Lab Connemara – CHASING SHAKESPEARE – 2025
IWC Best of List – CHASING SHAKESPEARE and BIG LIFE -- 2025
Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO – 2024
Non-WGA
Female, Over 50
CHASING SHAKESPEARE
Feature - YA Action-Adventure
When a teenage girl's father disappears amid accusations that he stole one of the Shakespeare's First Folios, she must find him and retrieve the Folio by solving a series of Shakespeare-themed clues he left behind.
NANO
Feature - horror-thriller
When a scientist specializing in nano technology pushes her research too far, too fast in order to save her dying husband, she inadvertently creates a monster. A monster one thousand times smaller than a raindrop who learns faster than any A.I. on the planet and quickly has the power to destroy millions.
SUKIE & JESSIE’S PUBLIC PARKS TENNIS TEAM
Pilot - sports comedy - BAD NEWS BEARS meets GLOW
A parks and rec women's' tennis team, misfits all, will be disbanded to make room for pickleball courts if they don’t have a winning season.
Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, YA
Female, Over 50
unrepped