PREVIOUS NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP &
COLLEGE SCREENWRITING PLACEMENTS
PREVIOUS NEW VOICES FELLOWS:
2023
Luis Antonio Aldana & Miguel Angel Callabero, mentored by Roberto Marinas
Max Asayesh-Brown, mentored by Robb Chavis
Jordan Guingao, mentored by Charise Castro Smith
Terron Jones, mentored by Reggie Rock Bythewood
Julia Weisberg Cortés, mentored by Marissa Jo Cerar
2022
Myra Aquino, mentored by Ligiah Villalobos
Albert M.Chan, mentored by Deborah Goodwin
Devon Kerr, mentored by Justin Noble
Maurizio Ledezma, mentored by Scott Z. Burns
Shannon TL Kearns, mentored by Steven Canals
2021
Andrew Bluestone, mentored by Adam Milch
John Lowe, mentored by Patrick Sean Smith
Katherine Ruppe, mentored by David Shore
Emma Soren, mentored by Robin Schiff
Brian Stampnitsky, mentored by Jenny Bicks
2020
Eric Glover, mentored by Ben Watkins
Chris Gibbon, mentored by Vanessa Taylor
Cara Danielle Brown, mentored by Winnie Holzman
Lena Parodi, mentored by Rina Mimoun
Eugene Ramos, mentored by Patrick Sean Smith
2019
John Doble, mentored by Ligiah Villalobos
Christina Brosman, mentored by Liz Craft and Sarah Fin
Jeanine Daniels, mentored by Erika Kennair
Roniel Tessler, mentored by Carter Covington
Robert Axelrod, mentored by Winnie Holzman
Obiageli Odimegwu, mentored by Robin Swicord
2018
Augusto Amador, mentored by Melanie Marnich
James Pratt, mentored by Jay Kogen
Sydney Mitchel, mentored by Nancy Pimental
Joel Sinensky, mentored by Chris Harris
2017
Rowan Wheeler, mentored by Carter Covington & Sean Smith
Charlie Kelly, mentored by David Zuckerman
Daniel Pearle, mentored by Ben Watkins
Devon Balsamo-Gillis, mentored by Raelle Tucker
Kayreth Williams, mentored by Chrissy Pietrosh / Jessica Goldstein
Paula Sabbaga, mentored by Rashad Rasini
2016
Andrea Wachner, mentored by Jenny Bicks
Kim Izzo, mentored by David Shore
Matthew-Lee Erlbach, mentored by Melanie Marnich
Morenike Balogun, mentored by Liz Craft & Sarah Fain
Tyler Greene, mentored by Carter Covington
2015
Chisa Hutchinson, mentored by Felicia Henderson
Lauren Goodman, mentored by Janine Sherman Barrios
J. Holtham, mentored by Rashad Rasini
Dario Konjicija & Damir Konjicija, mentored by Carter Covington
2014
Brian Peterson, mentored by Bill Lawrence
Greta Heinemann, mentored by Pam Veasey
Jamie Duneier, mentored by Melanie Marnich
Jessica Mollo, mentored by Gary Glasberg
2013
Carlito Rodriguez, mentored by David Shore
Joshua Corey, mentored by Jay Kogen
Brian Kratz, mentored by Jay Kogen
Martín Zimmerman, mentored by Alan Ball
SJ Hodges, mentored by Jason Katims
Benji Kleinman, Scott Yacyshyn, and Stephen Cedars, mentored by David Zuckerman
2012
Justin Rubin, mentored by Robin Swicord
David Dilley, mentored by Tom Fontana
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Adam Karp, mentored by David Hudgins
Emily Silver, mentored by Marc Guggenheim
2011
Neil Cohen, mentored by Gary David Goldberg
Michael Greenberg, mentored by Matt Carlson
Luisa Leschin, mentored by Ali LeRoi
Christian Trokey, mentored by Marc Guggenheim
Will Pascoe, mentored by Hart Hanson
PREVIOUS COLLEGE
SCREENWRITING AWARDEES
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Awardees:
2023 - Lara Palmqvist (University of Texas, Austin)
2022 - Hayley Tibbenham (American Film Institute)
2021 - Paul Coleman (Boston University)
2020 - Laura Valin-Penalba (UCLA TFT Professional Program)
2019 - King Lu (Columbia University)
2018 - Jessica Shields (Columbia University)
2017 - Kieryn Ziegler (University Of Southern California)
2016 - Munis Rashid (American Film Institute)
2015 - Adrienne Rush (Florida State University)
2014 - Emily Brochin (University Of Southern California)
2013 - Taylor Martin (University Of Southern California)
2012 - Caitlin Parrish (University Of Southern California)
2011 - Amy Ripley (University Of Southern California)
2011 - Adam Simon (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2010 - Sarah Cornwell (University Of Texas, Austin)
2009 - Joey Falco (University Of Southern California)
2008 - Katherine F. Lovejoy (University Of Southern California)
David And Lynn Angell College Comedy Awardees:
2023 - Emma Fiske-Dobell (UCLA TFT Professional Program)
2022 - V Marks (University Of Southern California)
2021 - Rafael Diez (American Film Institute)
2020 - Thomas Gresham (University Of Nevada, Las Vegas)
2019 - Sheridan Watson (University Of Southern California)
2018 - Adam Lujan (New York University)
2017 - Jerell Rosales (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2016 - Magdalen Silberman (University Of Texas, Austin)
2015 - Jane Miller (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2014 - Nora Sullivan (University Of Southern California)
2013 - Jason Romaine (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2012 - Tamlin Hall (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2011 - Robin Rudenberg (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2010 - Clay Keller (Chapman University)
2009 - Scott Rutherford (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2008 - Cameron Porsandeh (University Of California, Los Angeles)
2007 - Jonny Mais (University Of Southern California)
2006 - Colin Marshall (Columbia University)
2005 - Erika Kennair (Loyola Marymount University)
2004 - Christopher Carlson (Columbia University)
2004 - Kathy Fischer (University Of California, Los Angeles)
PREVIOUS PROGRAM FINALISTS & SEMI-FINALISTS
2023
New Voices Fellowship Finalists:
Feyza Safoglu, Adrien Callahan, Callie Waligora, Lane Stanley, and Luke Hart-Moynihan
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Finalists:
Feyza Safoglu, AJ Currie, and Liz Beall
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Finalists:
Jules Crosby, Reid Pope, and Kevin Walsh
The 2023 New Voices Semi-finalists:
AP Hello, April Wright, Chaseedaw Giles, Dennis Gonzalez, Emma Demorest, Gina Young, Jon Lazar, Julia Bergeron, Kaelan Dickinson, Marina Kato, Nadine Pequeneza, Natasha Trotter, Nia Ashley, Yeon Jin Lee, and Ziyao Liu
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Semi-finalists:
Victor Adame, Carrie Finn, Anthony Poon, Aaron Lopez, Sophia Lin, Ahmed Uthman, Jacqueline Olivé, Tracy Kowalski, Marcus Crawford Guy, Alex Marsha Sylvia, Noah Arjomand, Charmaine Colina, María Cristina Marrero-Morales, Christopher Lukens, Cynda Wang, and Renee Cunningham
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Semi-finalists:
Gabrielle Ruiz, Juwairiya Syed, Aadrise Johnson, Kareem El Arab, Hayley Zablotsky, Alexia Valentina Ureña, Isabela Aquino, Straton Rushing, Catherine Loerke, Ari Shapiro, Adrien Callahan, Callie Waligora, Chandler Moore, Tia Phillip, Cara-Lynn Branch, and Melina Maraki
2022
New Voices Fellowship Finalists:
Taylor Coriell, Alexandria Lane, Matheus Macedo, Julia Maddox, Jayne Maginot, and Miguel Orozco
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Finalists:
Carrie Finn, Harika Bommana, Julia Maddox, and Dawana Speights
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Finalists:
Katherine Anne Koury, Bridget Parker, Gabrielle Ruiz, and Helen K. Thomas
New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalists:
Nora Alameddin, Gary Alvarez, Lindsey Brandon, Michael Busza, Wesley Du, Grace Gao, Marina Michelson, Sam Mistry, Ben Odom, Eris Qian, Warren Schorr, Kate J. Sheffield, Tanmaya Shekhar, and Sam Thomasson
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Semi-finalists:
James (Séamus) Bearhart, Howard Emanuel, Deanna Esposito, Alex Garcia, Marcus Crawford Guy, Benjamin Howard, Sydney Kurland, Maurizio Ledezma, Joseph Lee, Avery Looser, Jaron Lucas, Jacqueline Olivé, Aashka Pandya, Rachel Pontbriand, and Leila Teitelman
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Semi-finalists:
Bailey Abedon, Marcelo Barajas, Jacob Berman, Olivia Maria Capestany, Monet Clements & Josh Granovsky, Malique GuinnDanielle Koenig, Ethan Mermelstein, Aiman Mimiko, Tanya O'Debra, Zane Pena, Josh Perry, Wayne Phillips, V Quidore, and Sierra Smith
2021
New Voices Fellowship Finalists:
Shannon Amborn, Mary Castellanos, Gabriel B Cruz, Heidi Nyburg, Sarah Patzer, and Victoria Rose
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Finalists:
Jen Bashian, Bev Chukwu, and Amalia Mathewson
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Finalists:
Felix van Kann, Ben Weiss, and Delani Wolf
New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalists:
Kathleen Cummings, James DiLapo & Devin Sullivan, Heather Farlinger, Kieran Gallagher, Daniel Lopez Kaufman, Amanda Prager, Rebecca Robinson, Danielle Autumn Stratton, and Kevin Yee
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Semi-finalists:
Eve Asher, Minka Bleakley, Jessica Ghitis, Alexander Hoefer, Simran Khalsa, Mehdi Khosravi, Becca Mann, Lucas Miller, Gianluca Morganti, Angelina Napoleone, Allamaprabhu Pattanashetty, Cynthia A. Phillips, Alies Sluiter, Marisa Torelli-Pedevska, Hannah Wacholtz, and Ben Weiss
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Semi-finalists:
Hayley Daniels, Neil Ferron, August Gladstone, Anna Khan, Maahir Khan, Sebastian Kupchaunis, Ryan Levitt, Jorge Moratal, Ilisa Aaron Parrish, Emily S. Rauch, Dawn Saucier-Green, Cole Smith, Jackie Todd, Sam Weiss, Hank Winton, and Julianna Yonis.
2020
New Voices Fellowship Finalists:
Angela Bourassa, Anderson Boyd, Kerri Brady Long, Kate Marks, Richard Nguyen, Michael Ouzas, Lauren Shook, Lauren Tyler, and Jeremy Wadzinski
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Finalists:
Rikki Bleiweiss, Carmen Hayes, and Karlee Roberts & Marlee Roberts
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Finalists:
Samuel Ashurov & Raza Rizvi, Tony Clemente Jr., and Gina DeAngelis
New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalists:
Austin Alward, Hugh Balfe, Gregory Beam, Gia Gordon, Danny Katz, Erica Lane, Avery Lee, Erik Phillip & David Telles, Stefan Popov, Shruti Saran, Taylor Sardoni, Melanie Schiele, and Carlson Young & Pierce Brown
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Semi-finalists:
Kristen Angonese, Michelle Askew, Josh Barsky, Alexander Hoefer, Olivia Iannelli, Natasha Joyce, Regina Kim, Sara Larner, Kasi Meek, Connie O'Donahue, Emma Rappold, Kenneth Reveiz, Lindsey Robertson, Mrittika Sarin, and Ben Weiss
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Semi-finalists:
Rikki Bleiweiss, Andy Compton, Jordan Guingao, Jason Hagemann, Michael Karr, Alex King, Thomas Kivney, Dorothy Lolagne, V Marks, Roma Murphy, Mrittika Sarin, Sarah Smick, Guljan Toktogul, Kim Tran, Maya Vyas & Ana Telfer, and Cat Wilkins
2019
New Voices Fellowship Finalists:
Alison Tafel, Bo Shim, Erica Peterson, J.P. Estes, Joseph Mango, Marie Cheng, Michael Sullivan, Victoria Rose, Yael Glouberman & Tamar Remer
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Finalists:
J.W. Bentley and Jennifer Frazin
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Finalists:
Nick Madson and Eliana Pipes
New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalists:
Aleta Barthell, Alka Khushalani, Bob Gebert, Gabriel Ho, Greg Machlin, Jennifer Grand, Kathleen Cromie, Kelli McNeil, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda, and Sarah J. Eagen
Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award Semi-finalists:
Liz Castricone, Hannah Hayde, Paul Porenta, and Omar Willis
David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award Semi-finalists:
Ari Ben-Avram, Mary Bronaugh, and Graham Goldstein