Screenwriters
Willamette Writers supports screenwriters year round, from chapter meetings to our FilmLab script-to-screen program. Scroll down to find out more about our community, and how you can write, learn, and create with us.
2026 FilmLab Writer’s Room
Congratulations to our 2026 FilmLab Writer’s Room! Eight writers and three alternates have been chosen to join showrunner Grant Rosenberg this summer to join the Writer’s Room and write the FilmLab script. Their script will be read by SAG-AFTRA actors at this year’s conference in August.
Writer’s Room
Barbara Blomquist
Steven Dexheimer
Adam Lohman
Kate Morris
Kari Mote
Chad Neufeld
Mariia Rudenko
Jerry J. Sampson
Alternates
Kim Bailey
Steven Jackley
L Yniguez
About the Writer’s Room
The FilmLab Writer’s Room is an in-person educational opportunity for aspiring screenwriters. Eight writers are selected by a panel of judges to participate in a two-day in-person writer’s room in Portland, Oregon. They work with Grant Rosenberg, an experienced showrunner, producer, and screenwriter, to collaborate on a script which will be performed by SAG-AFTRA actors at the Willamette Writers Conference in August. This script will move into production in 2027. Writers who submit but are not accepted are invited to participate as viewers of the in-person writer’s room. Previous FilmLab participants are not eligible to submit their work, but are invited to join the room as viewers as well.
Screenwriting Chapter
Working on a script? Editing your scenes? Willamette Writers is here to help. Join us for monthly online chapter meetings focused on the craft of screenwriting. We work with producers, screenwriters, directors and filmmakers to take you behind the scenes, demystifying the process of screenwriting and helping you take next steps in your writing career.
The Screenwriting Chapter meets online on second Wednesdays from 5-6PM Pacific time. Join us to meet your community, learn with your peers, and level up with film professionals.
Chair Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich
Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich traded her working-class Jersey roots and a career as a textile designer in New York City for love…and the broad skies of the Pacific Northwest where she has established herself as a writer, visual artist, art educator and occasional stand up comic. She is a recent Stowe Remote Writing Lab Participant, a 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee, and wrote and produced a short film inspired by her stand up comedy that screened at the non-juried Short Film Corner at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, France.
Chair Grant Rosenberg
Grant Rosenberg is a forty-year veteran in the television industry, beginning his career as a senior creative executive at Paramount Television and Walt Disney Studios, before transitioning to become a successful writer, producer and showrunner of dramatic series. Over that time, Grant was heavily involved in pitching from both sides of the table and knows what it takes to get your ideas noticed.
FilmLab 2025: Milestones
In 2025, FilmLab moved behind the camera, taking the Milestones script from the Writer’s Room and onto the set. Click here to meet the team behind the scenes and the cast that graced the screen.
FilmLab Red Carpet Premiere
FilmLab is proudly sponsored by a grant from #OregonMade.