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Eight-Week Screenwriting Cohort with Joy Kecken

Join an intensive, writing-only cohort led by showrunner, director, and writer-producer Joy Kecken. Across eight weeks, you’ll develop a complete short film script—from concept and outline to a polished draft—through weekly workshops, table reads, and targeted feedback. Open to new and experienced writers. 

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Joy Kecken is a showrunner, director, writer-producer, playwright, and librettist. She was Executive Producer on Apple TV+’s Swagger and Co-Executive Producer on NatGeo’s Genius: MLK/X. She has written and directed for HBO’s The Wire and served as Co-Executive Producer on Kindred (FX) and Motherland: Fort Salem (Freeform). Additional writing credits include Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger, Tales, and Homicide: Life on the Street.

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