The 2015 WriteHer list is here!  

 

We reached out to some of the most successful names in development (heads of networks, showrunners, directors, and producers) and asked them to submit their favorite unproduced television scripts for consideration. Culled from over 100 nominations, the list features the top 15 scripts that best represent quality, industry-vetted, female-driven content. These scripts are all, in some capacity, available to be developed. Where we were able to confirm additional rights holders, it has been listed.  

 

Women as writers and creators in television are outnumbered nearly 3 to 1 across broadcast networks, cable and Netflix programs, according to the 2013-2014 Boxed In Report. And, despite the rise in awareness of top notch and bankable women creating television shows, there was a 4% decrease in female creators this season. These numbers don’t reflect the breadth and quality of available female-driven material.

  

Below is the WriteHer List’s 15 for 2015. Congratulations to the writers and thank you to all the amazing individuals who participated in the inaugural list. We have been moved by your tremendous show of support and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WeForShe evaluated material based on several criteria, including number of nominations, uniqueness of the roles given to female characters, competency of writing, diversity of the entire cast, break-out potential of the writer, and if the script passed the Bechdel Test. Scripts are listed in alphabetical order.

 

 

AMERICAN BEAUTIES *

Writer: Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain  

Genre: One Hour

Representation: WME

Two newly paroled women use their powers of grifting to help them in a career of door to door cosmetics sales. 

*Rights with Warner Bros.

 

BLOOD, MONTANA

Writer: Jessica Mecklenburg

Genre: One hour

Representation: CAA

A murder-mystery set in a small Montana town with an odd, well-connected family at the core.  

 

B.F.E.

Writer: Julie Sherman Wolfe

Genre: Half hour

Representation: Paradigm

A progressive LA mom is transplanted with her family to Valencia and has to learn to navigate the new mom-style of the suburbs.

 

THE BRASS

Writer: Jenny Lynn

Genre: One hour

Representation: Attorney, David Fox - contact: dfox@mymangreenspan.com  

A police procedural centering around LA’s new female chief of police.

 

GIRLS CHASING MEN

Writer: Kerry Ehrin

Genre: One hour

Representation: Rothman Brecher

Drama centered around two friends stuck in minimum wage jobs that discover their trailer park upbringing uniquely qualifies them to become bounty hunters.  

 

HATERS

Writer: Amelie Gillette

Genre: Half hour

Representation: CAA

A NYC magazine writer spends her days hatching plans with her gal pals to carry out operation evict her ex and trying not to be on the reality show filming in her office.

 

MANIC

Writer: Janet Tamaro

Genre: One hour drama

Representation: CAA

A profoundly driven and successful lawyer uses her work to ignore her family's and her own intense dysfunction.

 

MODEL WOMAN *

Writer: Scarlett Lacey

Genre: One hour

Representation: Verve 

A drama inspired by the Ford modeling agency in the 80s focusing on a smart secretive girl as she enters the high stakes world of modeling. 

*Rights with Sony TV

 

THE RECOVERY

Writer: Angela Berliner

Genre: One hour

Representation: Callamaro Literary Agency

A family drama centering around a tormented blue collar father who’s daughter was kidnapped 11 years ago.

 

SHANGRI-LA

Writer: Bridget Bedard

Genre: One hour

Representation: UTA

A small-town drama centering on a fish-out-of-water female Homeland Security agent and a scrappy 11-year old girl she befriends.

 

SPINSTER

Writer: Dana Schmalenberg

Genre: Half hour

Representation: Gersh

Four female friends in their 40s navigating life in LA as “older” women.

 

TEACH

Writer: Lauren McBrayer Miller & Abigail Spencer

Genre: One hour

Representation: ICM

A trio of new Teach US teachers test their mettle in a rough New Orleans high school. 

 

UNTITLED MUMOLO, LIKKEL, HOBERG PROJECT

Writer: Annie Mumolo, Kat Likkel & John Hoberg

Genre: Half hour

Representation: UTA

Three women decide not to let life be the boring let down it has become and instead start breaking the rules and following their dusted off dreams.  

 

WANTED

Writer: Justine Gillmer

Genre: One hour

Representation: WME

In 1874, the paths of three women - an assassin, a grifter and a healer - become deeply entwined in the web of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the Wild West.

 

WOMEN AND GIRLS

Writer: Kristen Newman

Genre: Half hour

Representation: UTA

A savvy business woman, who parties a little too hard on the side, has to learn to reorder her life when her half sister - who is neither smart, nor tough - comes to work with her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although there was not room for them on the list's 15 for 2015, the following unique voices and stories are presented for additional consideration.

 

GOLDENLAND

Writer: Catherine Grieve & Dylan Slocum

Genre: One hour

Representation: Unrepped - contact: catherinegrieve@me.com 

A small-town mystery centering on the disappearance of a local boy and the female FBI agent pulled into the investigation.

 

HOLLYWOOD BABYLON

Writer: Kathleen Robertson

Genre: One hour

Representation: Paradigm

Based on the book of the same name, this story explores the underbelly of the 1927 movie business as viewed from a couple of Ohio transplants - an aspiring actress and a cop.

 

LET'S STOP BEING LOSERS

Writer: Annie Girard & Becky Thyre

Genre: Half hour

Representation: The Coppage Company

Frustrated 30-something LA roommates find 1980s self-help tapes with 100 tips to make their dreams come true and start following them with questionable success.

 

QUEER PRESSURE

Writer: Anna Lotto & Juliet Walker

Genre: Half hour

Representation: Ambition Talent

Two closeted teens, playing the part of the golden power couple ruling their high school, must hold onto their secret until graduation.

 

TRU BEAUTY

Writer: Roxie Perkins

Genre: One hour

Representation: Gersh

A drama about the Vietnamese women that run a small nail salon, and the mess they are left with when the patriarch dies.