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.
Andrea Ciannavei: The Path; American Odyssey; The Mayans MC; Law and Order: SVU; Tulsa King
Kia Corthron: Force Continuum; The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter; The Wire
Stephen Belber Emmy Award Nominee: The Laramie Project; Tape; Match; The Madness
Richard Dresser: Rounding Third; Johnny Baseball; Good Vibrations; It Happened Here
Tom Fontana Emmy Award and Peabody Award Winner: Homicide: Life on the Street; St. Elsewhere; Oz; City on a Hill
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
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
- Karina Ansley
- Zaina Arafat
- Stephen Belber
- Andrew Bergman
- Jonathan Bernstein
- 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
- Barbara Garshman
- Gina Gionfriddo
- Zariana Gonzalez
- Fred Graver
- Lisa Grissom
- Stephen Guirgis
- Bill Gullo
- Caroline Guo
- Dina Gusovsky
- Lulie Haddad
- Hallie Haglund
- Diane Hanks
- Jim Hart
- Don P. Hooper
- Piero Iberti
- Erik Jensen
- Leigh Jerome
- Ana Maria Jomolca
- Amanda Jones
- Jamal Joseph
- Pamela Katz
- Ryan Kelly
- Susan Kim
- Nurit Koppel
- Chris Kyle
- Richard LaGravenese
- Padraic Lillis
- Maria Lisella
- Manfred Lopez
- Florencia Lozano
- Jenny Lumet
- Ivica Marc
- Ben Mehlman
- Winter Miller
- TD Mitchell
- Chiara Montalto-Giannini
- Elizabeth Murray
- Rahaleh Nassri
- Mel Nieves
- Deirdre O’Connor
- Alice O’Neill
- Brian Otano
- Helen R. Murray
- Danielle Page
- Peter Parnell
- Christopher O. Pena
- Phil Primason
- Willie Reale
- Andrew Rincón
- Jose Rivera
- Jordan Roberts
- Celine Robinson
- 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
- Ann Toback
- Krenee Tolson
- Galen Tong
- Liz Tuccillo
- David Tucker
- James Anthony Tyler
- Alaudin Ullah
- Jose Useche
- Raysa Villalona
- Francine Volpe
- Sasha Wade
- Michael Weller
- Colleen Werthman
- Windell Williams
- Michael Winship
- Delaney Yeager
- Sam Zalutsky
