Showrunners’ Mentorship Matters Diverse Writers Initiative Selects 2024-2025 Participants

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EXCLUSIVE: Mentorship Matters, a year-long mentorship program created by showrunners to help boost opportunities for emerging diverse writers, has selected 19 scribes for 2024-2025.

Now in its third year, the program, sponsored by Screencraft and Coverfly, includes a year of consistent, in-depth mentorship and creative advocacy from a committed showrunner.

It also includes guidance with developing and polishing an original writing sample along with panels and seminars with high-level industry professionals.

The 2024-2025 Mentees were selected by showrunners from over 700 applicants with varying experiences and backgrounds. They include Miida Chu, Casey Seline, Samantha Lee, Mahalia Latortue-Pridgett, Jackie Akiko Cloud, Stephen Nolly, Philippe Bowgen, Renee Cunningham, Taylor Henriquez, Sejal Pachisia, Mike Wells, David Aguilar-Rodriguez, Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodriguez, Monica Cecilia-Lucas, Cassidy Lee, Joshua Kazemi, Richard Scott, Adriana Ducassi and Nick Ducassi. “With less shows being made, budgets being slashed, writers rooms getting even smaller, and so many fellowships losing their funding, it’s more critical than ever for showrunners and mentors to help create a pathway for underrepresented voices on our own staffs,” said Raelle Tucker (Sacred Lies, True Blood) one of Mentorship Matters’ founding mentors. “We’re thrilled to have partnered with Coverfly.