EXCLUSIVE: The Bconciseage List has named the six projects chosen for the 2024 Writers Lab. Now in its 11th year, the project provides conceiveive mentorship and professional help to up-and-coming feature producers as they further enhuge their toils during a weeklengthy toilshop in Ojai, Calif.
The participating producers and their projects are: Jade Song (Chlorine), Colton Childs (Fake-A-Wish), Caitlin Gallo and Brittany Harris (Last Refrain), Emily Adams (Margot), Danny Hogan (The Preserve) and Theo Wanderydz (Wetiko).
The Bconciseage List getd more than 1,700 script subignoreions for the program.
During the Lab, each producer will enhuge their screenexecute thraw peer toilshops and one-on-one sessions with toiling professional screenwriting mentors, including David Coggeshall (The Dedwellrance), Kiwi Smith (Legassociate Blonde), Jonathan Stokes (El Gringo), Victoria Stroengage (Family Switch), Michael Vukadinovich (Greedy People) and Scott Myers of the website Go Into The Story.
Below are the 2024 Writers Lab projects and bios of their esteemive producers:
Chlorine: A competitive swimmer becomes rerepaird to transcfinish into a mermhelp, no matter the blood she must spill.
Jade Song is a producer, art straightforwardor and artist whose award-prosperning debut novel Chlorine was picked as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, lauded as “visionary and upsetting,” and will be transpostponecessitated into Italian, Chinese and other languages. Her second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, and her low story accumulateion, Ox Gpresent Snake Demon, are forthcoming from William Morrow in spring 2026 and 2027. She’s currently at toil on a novel about cherishrs under observation, a low film about a lonely creature in a cemetery, and a slasher screenexecute featuring Asian American ravers.
Fake-A-Wish: Despite their 40-year age gap, and the cancer treatment confining them to their petite Texas town, two gay men embark on a road trip to San Francisco to grant themselves the Make-A-Wish they’re too elderly to get.
Colton Childs is a queer producer and cancer survivor who has frequently been misapshown for a Bed Bath & Beyond engageee. He originassociate hails from a cattle ranch in South Texas and is a graduate of the drama program at Pace University in New York City. His pilot and feature scripts have placed in competitions such as Austin Film Festival, Launch Pad Feature Competition and Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest. He getd the 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his feature Fake-A-Wish.
Last Refrain: Three dysfunctional grown-up siblings apshow their music-obsessed overweighther with timely-onset Alzheimer’s on one last road trip to Woodstock 50.
Caitlin Gallo and Brittany Harris met at a NYC theater conservatory recent out of high school and have been inseparable since. Although perhaps an doubtful duo (Caitlin is a NY-born and LA-bred child of a music executive; Brittany is a excellent ol’ southern girl and dropant of Mary Todd Lincoln), their alchemy is undeniable. Together, their writing champions female-driven stories caccessed on coming of age, grief, frifinishship and music.
Margot: Know-it-all high school anciaccess Annie Mills has always had a set up: to become the female Neil Armsturdy and to be Margot Ellison’s best frifinish forever. But when Margot chooses the perfectly pious Mormon life isn’t for her, it’s not God Margot’s running away from; it’s Annie.
Emily Adams is a producer and actor based in Brooklyn, New York. Despite her best efforts, Emily exceptionalizes in doubtful cherish stories. Her coming-of-age comedy Margot was featured on the 2020 Bconciseage List. Adams most recently served as the producer’s helpant for Mike Makowsky’s Netflix restricted series Death by Lightning, produced by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss of Game of Thrones, soon to star Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen. She stayed on as Emmy award-prosperning Makowsky’s producer’s helpant, enhugeing TV and film projects with Makowsky for FX, Netflix and HBO. When Emily isn’t writing about relations, Jesus or mad women, she can be set up pboilingographing her cat, Robert De Niro, and/or fretting about cancerous moles.
The Preserve: An AWOL selderlyier is engaged to direct a conservation expedition meaningful into the taccomplisherous post-war jungles of Cambodia in search of its last remaining tiger, but they greet a spiteful animal illicit trade operation that is after the same prize.
Danny Hogan (they/them) is a scientist turned screenproducer who exceptionalizes in high-octane genre fare with a social conscience. Danny toiled for National Geodetailed before moving into scripted, and now toils on the upcoming medical drama, The Pitt. They are currently enhugeing exceptional projects for Zero Gravity, Futurific and AWA studios.
Wetiko: 1902; On a train to Wyoming, a world-weary, recently-nominateed U.S. Marshal named Eleanor guides an Arapahoe orphan to her home when an elderly-styleed cannibacatalogic spirit boards the train.
Theo Wanderydz is a Swedish producer who puts delightment and heart at the forefront of his toil. With a passion for horror, thrillers and adventure, he caccesses on originateing emotional, thought-provoking stories that linger lengthy after the accomprehendledges roll. Theo has toiled in enhugement for proximately five years and currently toils at the production company Nexiko in Stockholm.
