Wendy Jean Wilkins

Wendy Jean Wilkins is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker and comedian who was named one of ISA's Top-25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019. Hailing from the rural area of upstate New York, Wendy has lived and worked in Hollywood for over 25 years. She's been a Warner Brothers Writers' Workshop Participant, an ABC/Disney Writing Program Finalist, a Final Draft's Big Break Contest Top-10 Finalist, a Women In Film: NY/Meryl Streep Writers Lab Finalist and a 2018 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder along with 50 other competition placements and awards. On the feature side, Wendy's comedy screenplay WHERE THE MEN ARE won Best Comedy at both the 2019 Creative Screenwriting Awards and the 2018 Creative World Awards. On the television side, her post-apocalyptic pilot ONE MORE DAY just won another best short screenplay award at the 2020 Space & Time Film Festival as well as best screenplay at the 2019 Sherman Oaks Film Festival. Her original dramatic/sci-fi TV pilot script HOMETOWN won the ISA Fast Track VI Fellowship and the 2018 Space & Time Film Festival's short screenplay competition. On the shorts side, her script INSIGNIFICANT won Best Dark Comedy short screenplay at the 2019 Houston Comedy Film Festival and the 2018 Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. You can catch the radio drama she created from the script for ONE MORE DAY on YouTube with 37,000+ listens. Wendy is a senior staff writer for the Dystopian satirical news website Omnarchy.com. And when not writing, Wendy performs stand-up all over the country.