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Exclusive: The Writers Guild of America East (Wgae) and FilmNation Entertainment have revealed the fellows selected to participate in the third New York Screenwriting Fellowship.

The 2025 fellowship class includes Emily Everhard, Fedna Jacquet, Aditya Joshi & Sid Gopinath, Alexandra Joyce, Thaddeus McCants, Zuri Rice and Naya James Sonnad.

“We congratulate the gifted writers accepted into this year’s New York Screenwriting Fellowship,” Wgae President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said in a statement Wednesday. “The Writers Guild of America East is so grateful to have a partner in FilmNation, which — along with all the writing and executive mentors — shares our commitment to lifting up underrepresented voices in film.”

First launched in 2019, the New York Screenwriting Fellowship seeks to help develop early-career screenwriters from underrepresented groups in the New York City area. The fellows will have access to both a screenwriting mentor and an executive mentor, as well as seminars, receptions, and other introductions,...

The James Patterson Industrial Complex is huge and growing all the time. The author of Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, and your mom's favorite book has expanded into audio thrillers in recent years. These Audible Originals are less like audiobooks and more like old-fashioned radio dramas with sound design and multiple actors, such as John Lithgow, Aaron Paul, Zachary Quinto, Bryce Dallas Howard, Krysten Ritter, and more.

Now Mary-Louise Parker can be added to that fine troupe of James Patterson's Audible Original Players. Parker stars in the new thriller Murder in Bermuda, where she plays Beth Heller, an arrogant attorney with a criminal family who is drinking her time away in a Bermuda hotel. The Audible Original is co-written by Aaron Tracy (The Coldest Case) and Thaddeus McCants (winner of the 2020 BET Project Crea8 writing competition).

When Beth kinda-sorta blackmailed into helping the daughter of the hotel's owner,...

Out of hundreds of submissions, BET and Tracy Yvonne Productions has selected Thaddeus McCants as the winner of Project CRE8 which gives emerging TV writers the opportunity to develop an original comedy for the small screen.

The contest culminated on September 17 where the five Project CRE8 finalists pitched their original TV comedies to Tracy Oliver, Connie Orlando and a panel of TV execs. McCants’ original TV script Lit Lounge raced ahead to win. Lit Lounge is a satire on marijuana’s transition from Schedule-i drug to corporate commodity and follows a young Black man’s troubled climb to the top of the legal world of weed. BET will purchase McCants’ TV script for $25K and will work with him to develop a comedy series with Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions.

“Project CRE8 is a program that showcases BET’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and its longstanding support of emerging talent from the creative community,...

April Nixon Olivier Award nominee, B'wayNational Tour Cats, Tommy, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Damn Yankees, 9 to 5, Fosse, The Wiz, Sweet Charity, Dreamgirls, Caroline or Change, Ashley Ware Jenkins Celie Color Purple National Tour and Thaddeus McCants TV Boardwalk Empire - co-star, Young amp Restless - lead head the cast of Truth the musical, by Keni Fine and music by Keni Fine amp Tony Small, directed by Oscar Blustin. Opening out of town at Thearc Theater in Washington, D.C. Feb 26 - 28, 2015.