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From The Blog
Performing: Mandy Patinkin Brooke Adams Eisa Davis William Jackson Harper Tony Shalhoub Emily Skeggs Performing works by (in...
The most notable thing to me about Gala 2017, our fourth, was its feeling of intimacy. The coming together...
For the past eight years, the Writers Guild Initiative’s (WGI) Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting has worked with a select...
Full video of the Welcoming Remarks and the performance of Into the Unknown can be seen here. Rarely...
If it’s anything like last year’s stirring, exciting, inspiring and incredibly fun evening, this year’s Gala will be a...
For the Second Year, WGI Partners with the Black List To Identify Short List for The Michael Collyer...
Memorial Day 2016 brought, as it does every year, a lot of terrific writing about our Military. I was...
National Endowment for the Arts Chariman Jane Chu has approved the Writers’ Guild Initiative to receive a grant in support...
We’re proud to announce that Trista Matacastillo is one of twenty-four people selected this year as a Bush Fellow....