2025-2026 New Voices Fellows
NICOLE LYNN COHEN
PROJECT: The Silent Treatment | Feature
LOGLINE: A detached sign language interpreter is forced to confront his trauma during a 72-hour psychiatric hold — not as a patient, but as the interpreter for a troubled Deaf teen whose issues mirror his own.
BIO: Nicole Lynn Cohen is a screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work spans multiple genres and focuses on earnest, often overlooked characters fighting for agency against life's uncontrollable factors. Nicole cut her teeth at multiple independent production companies such as SpectreVision and Felix Culpa, which helped develop her own taste and sharpened her ear for storytelling. In addition to screenwriting, she heads development at Ser Nocturna, a women-led independent production company based in New York. Her favorite artistic medium is the sentence.
MEG DUDLEY
PROJECT: One Heart | Feature
LOGLINE: A small town Texas housewife takes on the NCAA in a landmark court case after her husband dies from CTE, a degenerative dementia caused by his time playing football in college. Based on a true story.
BIO: Meg Dudley is a Texas-born, Los Angeles-based screenwriter with nearly two decades in film and television production. A graduate of the American Film Institute’s MFA Screenwriting program, she is a recipient of both Screenwriting and Development awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship. Meg specializes in character driven, female-led stories that blend dark comedy with emotional depth, often exploring the messiness of coming of age whether at thirteen, thirty, or sixty-three. She currently lives with her two cats Harold (7) and Maude (7).
V MARKS
PROJECT: Losing It | Feature
LOGLINE: A nerdy trans girl wins one high school ping-pong game and America loses its mind, making her the target of a hate campaign and the unwilling face of a movement. Now she must fight for her right to play a sport she doesn’t even like and prove she doesn’t have a biological advantage by training to be the worst ping-pong player of all time.
BIO: V Marks grew up in Brooklyn and moved to LA because they can only live in cities with a minimum of 25 gay bars. After getting their BFA in Screenwriting from USC, they received the Yes And Laughter Lab Fellowship, New Voices Fellowship, and Humanitas College Comedy Award. V’s writing explores the two questions that keep them up at night: “what do we owe each other in this cutthroat world?” and “how many conservatives can I piss off with one script?”
DREW MCINTURFF
PROJECT: I Need Your Kidney, Bro | Feature
LOGLINE: A struggling underachiever reconnects with his relatively-clean addict of an older brother when he shows up on his doorstep in need of a kidney.
BIO: Drew McInturff was raised by two political operatives in love in Washington, D.C. and spent most of his youth whipping votes to order pizza again for dinner. After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease at a young age he learned that steroids are the best medicine and laughter is a close second. Graduating from Florida State University’s MFA Screenwriting Program in 2022 he immediately moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing full time.
ARIANA NEWHOUSE
PROJECT: The Whirlaways | One-hour Pilot
LOGLINE: A 1950 amateur women's bowler and new mother bowls for broke when she beats the reigning national champion, sending ripples through her identity, her marriage, and her loins. Think Middle American THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN.
BIO: Ariana Newhouse is a bisexual writer and comedian heavily influenced by her corn-fed, blue collar upbringing in Indiana. With heart and humor, she writes about the duality of human experience and women up against systems. Her newsletter, Respectful Smartass, was a Top 25 Humor Publication on Substack in 2022, and she was named an Emerging Artist at SF Sketchfest 2024. A 5x NCAA All-American sprinter, her latest sports dramedy pilot landed her a spot as a 2025 Humanitas New Voices Fellow.