Screenwriters directory

September 20, 2021 9:29 AM

The Writers Guild of America "Find a Writer" search is fun. IMDb has a ton of ads these days and the WGA site is, in contrast, calm and text-based. See TV and movie writing credits for writers such as Naren Shankar, Gretchen J. Berg, Glen A. Larson, Susannah Grant (the writer of Erin Brockovich), Jane Espenson, Callie Khouri (the writer of Thelma and Louise, who also evidently worked on a pilot with Steven Bochco), and Joss Whedon's father and grandfather. Or check out the season-by-season writing staff of shows such as Psych or Saturday Night Live. And if you search for "pilot" and choose the "other" tab you see a long list of intriguing TV pilots that did not make it to series.
posted by brainwane (3 comments total)

For those of us who really like to read spec scripts, this is a goldmine! Thanks brainwane.
posted by blindkoala at 2:03 PM on September 20, 2021

After we got into Gilmore Girls we started to notice how uneven the writing was, but I remember looking Jane Espenson up after one of the two episodes she'd written (probably The Reigning Lorelei). She's got a lot of range.
posted by fedward at 5:20 PM on September 20, 2021

blindkoala— there’s not always links to the scripts, specs or otherwise., unless the writer has okayed the sample. The WGA doesn’t always provide scripts for research, for that matter.
posted by Ideefixe at 11:17 AM on September 21, 2021 [1 favorite]