The ScreenCraft Writers Summit is a two-day virtual event that features keynote conversations with today’s top screenwriters, showrunners, producers, and other industry professionals, as well as networking events that connect screenwriters from all walks of life and experience levels.
THE POWER UNIVERSE: POWER, GHOST, RAISING KANAN, & FORCE. ELI STONE, THE BERNIE MAC SHOW
BRENDAN HUNT
Emmy Winning Writer, Producer, Actor
TED LASSO
Karyn Kusama
Director, Exec. Producer
Yellowjackets, The invitation, Destroyer, Jennifer's body
CINCO PAUL
Creator, Showrunner, Writer
Despicable Me franchise, schmigadoon!, the secret life of pets
TRACY MCMILLAN
Executive Producer, Writer
Unprisoned, mad men, marvel's runaways, united states of tara
BRITTANI NICHOLS
Writer, Actor, Comedian
abbott elementary, a black lady sketch show, suicide kale
Samuel D. Hunter
Writer, Playwright
THE WHALE, BASKETS, A Bright New Boise
DOUG MIRO
Writer, Producer
narcos, narcos: Mexico, the great wall, the sorcerer's apprentice
Speaker lineup subject to change
Summit Schedule
All times are in PST
June 10 - Schedule
10:00 am - Brittani Nichols - Expressing Intention & Crafting Your Outcome
10:40 am - Doug Miro - The Power of Process
12:00 pm - Expo Hour
1:00 pm - Brendan Hunt - Bringing Life to the Page
1:30 pm - Courtney Kemp - A Showrunner's State of Mind
2:00 pm - Networking Time
June 11 - schedule
10:00 am - Cinco Paul - Animation, Musicals, and Unlocking Your Story
10:45 am - Tracy McMillan - UnPrisoned: Making Meaning out of Your Life
11:15 am - Samuel Hunter - Stage to Screen: It Never Happens How you Think
12:00 pm - Expo Hour
1:00 pm - Robert & Michelle King - Perspectives of a Room
1:30 pm - Karyn Kusama - Read it, Feel it, See it: A Director's POV
2:00 pm - Networking Time
Past Summit Speakers
Sofia Coppola
Writer, Director, Producer
ON THE ROCKS, LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE BEGUILED, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
Tanya Saracho
Creator, Showrunner, Exec. Producer
VIDA, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, LOOKING
Spike Jonze
Writer, Director, Producer
HER, ADAPTATION, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Michael Schur
Writer, Producer, Co-Creator
PARKS AND REC, THE GOOD PLACE, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, THE OFFICE, HACKS
JEYMES SAMUEL
Writer, Director, Producer, Composer
THE HARDER THEY FALL
Steven Canals
Writer, Director, Producer
POSE
WENDY CALHOUN
Writer, Director, Producer
THE ROOKIE: FEDS, JUSTIFIED, EMPIRE, NASHVILLE, STATION 19
LIZ TIGELAAR
Writer, Producer
Little fires everywhere, the morning show, casual, bates motel
j.j. abrams
Writer, Director, Producer
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, LOST, STAR TREK, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
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We really want you there! That's why registration for this year's summit will be pay-what-you-can, and you can gain full access to this year's summit for as little as $3. All profits from this year's summit will be donated to support our non-profit partners, including the Writers Guild Foundation.