Our Mentors are accomplished professional writers who are exceptionally skilled at their craft, have innovative teaching styles, and include Pulitzer prize-winners, Emmy and Peabody award-winners, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows.
Jessica Blank The Exonerated, Almost Home
Andrea Ciannavei The Path, American Odyssey, The Mayans MC
Kia Corthron Force Continuum, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, The Wire
Richard Dresser Rounding Third, Johnny Baseball
Scott Frank Academy Award nominee; Godless, The Queen’s Gambit
Craig muMs Grant Oz, Beautious, Def Poetry, A Sucker Emcee
Fred Graver Late Night with David Letterman, Cheers, The Jon Stewart Show
James V. Hart Dracula, Frankenstein, Hook
Ryan Kelly Veteran; The New Yorker, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
Tony Kushner Pulitzer Prize Winner; Angels in America, West Side Story
Lynn Nottage Pulitzer Prize Winner; Intimate Apparel, Ruined, Sweat
John Patrick Shanley Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner; Moonstruck, Doubt
David Tucker Veteran; Persistence of Vision, Another Day in Baghdad, Under the Skin
Michael Weller Academy Award Nominee; Hair, Ragtime, Lost Angels
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You can help us unlock powerful, untold stories by becoming a mentor.
Are you a Writers Guild member with a passion for sharing your gifts? As a professional writer, you know first-hand how the power of a story can change lives.
Mentors co-lead writing workshops with a wide variety of populations using WGI’s time-tested prompts. WGI workshops give participants the simple tools to tell their own stories for the very first time.
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Mentor Roll Call
- Chris Albers
- Sofia Alvarez
- Elizabeth Anderson
- Melissa Annis
- Zaina Arafat
- Stephen Belber
- Andrew Bergman
- Jessica Blank
- Marshall Brickman
- Carla Briscoe
- Allan Brocka
- Adam Brooks
- Joe Cacaci
- Lydia Caradine
- Jean-Christophe Castelli
- Jorge Corona
- Kia Corthron
- David Crabb
- Nova Cypress Black
- Emily Daly
- Joe Danisi
- Sara David
- Sean Davis
- Marie DeNoia Aronsohn
- Claire Downs
- Rick Dresser
- Kate Erickson
- Tom Fontana
- Ella Gale
- Gina Gionfriddo
- Zariana Gonzalez
- Fred Graver
- Lisa Grissom
- Stephen Guirgis
- Caroline Guo
- Dina Gusovsky
- Lulie Haddad
- Hallie Haglund
- Diane Hanks
- Jim Hart
- Piero Iberti
- Erik Jensen
- Leigh Jerome
- Ana Maria Jomolca
- Jamal Joseph
- Pamela Katz
- Ryan Kelly
- Susan Kim
- Chris Kyle
- Richard LaGravenese
- Padraic Lillis
- Maria Lisella
- Manfred Lopez
- Florencia Lozano
- Jenny Lumet
- Ben Mehlman
- Winter Miller
- TD Mitchell
- Chiara Montalto-Giannini
- Elizabeth Murray
- Rahaleh Nassri
- Mel Nieves
- Deirdre O’Connor
- Alice O’Neill
- Brian Otano
- Helen Murray Parfumi
- Christopher O. Pena
- Phil Primason
- Willie Reale
- Jose Rivera
- Jordan Roberts
- Emily Robinson
- Stephen Ruddy
- Noni Salma
- KJ Sanchez
- Ren Dara Santiago
- Rosie Schaap
- Nalini Sharma
- Chris Siteman
- Diana Spechler
- Allan C. Staples
- Susanna Styron
- Lorne Svarc
- Lucy Thurber
- Krenee Tolson
- Galen Tong
- Liz Tuccillo
- David Tucker
- James Anthony Tyler
- Alaudin Ullah
- Raysa Villalona
- Francine Volpe
- Sasha Wade
- Michael Weller
- Colleen Werthman
- Windell Williams
- Michael Winship
- Delaney Yeager
- Sam Zalutsky
