Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud and the Sundance Institute have set three scribes for their inaugural Women Write Now screenwriting fellowship, designed to bolster the next generation of Black women in comedy.This year’s Fellows, whose short film scripts were selected from a pool of 672 submissions, are Wilandrea Blair, Danielle Nicolet and Moni Oyedepo.
Each will have their project developed and produced for Peacock by LOL Studios, as part of a new partnership between Laugh Out Loud and NBCUniversal.
In the end, all three will be given the opportunity to pitch additional projects to execs at NBCUni, with just one securing a development deal.Blair’s project, Buddy and Bernice, examines the rivalry between a nursing home’s famous funny man and
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