TV Drama Regular
Wendy Jean Wilkins

Wendy Jean Wilkins

Upstate New York Pictures
Actor, Author, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
July 2014
Last online:
1 week ago
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About Wendy

Escaped from her hick heritage of upstate New York, Wendy Jean Wilkins is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker and comedian who been in Hollywood for over 30 years. Wendy has 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 an Austin Film Festival Second Rounder three times.

In 2019, was named one of ISA’s Top-25 Screenwriters to Watch.

Many of Wendy’s scripts have kicked ass on the competitions circuit. Her road picture comedy, WHERE THE MEN ARE, won Best Comedy Screenplay at both the 2019 Creative Screenwriting Awards and the 2018 Creative World Awards. Her sci-fi original pilot script, HOMETOWN, won the ISA Fast Track VI Fellowship and the 2018 Space & Time Film Festival screenplay competition. Her post-apocalyptic pilot, ONE MORE DAY, won best screenplay award for the 2020 Space & Time Film Festival and the 2019 Sherman Oaks Film Festival.

Her latest half-hour pilot dramedy script, COOZE, won the 2021 Emerging Screenwriters: Genre Competition, which earned her a development spot with the International Screenwriters Association.

In total, her scripts have been awarded in over 50 other writing competitions.

In 2015, she produced her pilot, ONE MORE DAY, into a radio drama, which currently has over 67K listens on YouTube.

You can catch Wendy every night on stage all over Los Angeles, California and the United States performing her sassy stand-up comedy to the masses.

Currently under the development wing of the ISA, Wendy is self-repped. You can contact her through them or at wendyjeanwilkins@ as well as on Instagram @wendyjean.

Gender:
Female

Badges

Photos

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AVERAGE - Indie feature drama script
COOZE - Half-Hour Dramedy Pilot script

Videos

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01-One More Day Cold Open by 'One More Day' Radio Play

Links

Loglines

  • Hometown

    Hometown Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Estranged first cousins battle each other for control of their small, dying American town but when their real enemy returns to seek revenge against them, they must come together to fight or have their town, their heritage and their ancestral home with a secret time travel portal wiped from the earth.

  • One More Day

    One More Day War ⋄ Drama When the second American revolution starts in Los Angeles, quick thinking reality show producer Kirby Lewis unites her Hollywood neighbors to protect their complex from the chaos, becoming a reluctant leader of the resistance against a homegrown fringe group fighting to overthrow the U.S. government.

  • Tinderbox

    Tinderbox Mystery ⋄ Crime When a fifty-year-old comedian and a thirty-year-old skateboarder are found shot to death in the woods in the San Fernando Valley, two detectives have to overcome their polarizing opinions about the hook-up culture in order to solve their murders.

  • Insignificant

    Insignificant Comedy In a desperate move, a middle-aged Filipino-American man kidnaps a rich, middle-aged white lady thinking she’s his only option to thwarting his mother’s deportation but quickly regrets his actions when she proves to be no helpless victim.

  • COOZE

    COOZE Comedy ⋄ Drama After cheating on her husband, abandoned by her lover, and ignored by the world, a childless, overweight, ordinary, underemployed, failed Hollywood writer and comic -- a breath away from turning fifty -- finds the courage to reset her life and start over again. 

  • Average

    Average Independent ⋄ Drama Fifteen years of trying, an overlooked stand-up has one last shot to make it in Hollywood before she packs everything up and goes home to become a dental assistant.

  • Where The Men Are

    Where The Men Are Comedy ⋄ Romance In an homage to the great Spring Break movie ‘Where The Boys Are,’ after discovering her fiancée is gay, Merritt York runs away with her thirty-something girlfriends to Daytona Beach, Florida where they stumble hard in trying to reclaim a missed youthful adventure only to discover that what’s really missing in their lives is really, much closer to home.

  • Backseat Debutantes

    Backseat Debutantes Drama ⋄ Independent Three middle-aged, former tenacious colorguard champion best friends are forced to examine the lives they ended up with instead of the lives they wished for.

Credits

  • Ready To Rumble

    Ready To Rumble (2000)
    Film by Warner Brothers Gabby Boggs/actor

Awards

  • Cinestory Retreat Fellowship - Quarter-Finalist/Screenplay 'Where The Men Are'
    (2021)

  • Stage 32: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenplay Contest - Quarter-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2021)

  • Launch Pad: TLP - 2nd Rounder/TV Pilot 'Cooze'
    (2021)

  • Emerging Screenwriting: Genre - WINNER/TV Pilot 'Cooze'
    (2021)

  • Sherman Oaks Film Festival - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2020)

  • Mystic Film Festival - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2020)

  • Creative Screenwriting: Unique Voices - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'One More Day'
    (2020)

  • Creative World Awards - Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2020)

  • Atlanta Film Festival - Quarter-Finalist/Screenplay 'Where The Men Are'
    (2020)

  • 25th Annual Fade In Awards - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Cooze'
    (2020)

  • Austin Film Festival - 2nd Rounder/TV Pilot 'Cooze'
    (2020)

  • BlueCat Screenplay Competition - Quarter-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Cooze'
    (2020)

  • Cinequest Screenplay Competition - Top-50, 'Hometown'
    (2019)

  • Houston Comedy Film Festival - Winner/Best Dark Comedy Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Houston Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Comedy Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Richmond International Film Festival - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Film Empire - Quarter-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Georgia Shorts Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Georgia Shorts Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Women's Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Women's Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Laugh or Die - Semi-Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Sherman Oaks Film Festival - WINNER/TV Pilot, 'One More Day'
    (2019)

  • Creative Screenwriting - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Creative Screenwriting - WINNER/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Austin Comedy Film Festival - Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Space & Time Film Festival - WINNER/TV Pilot, 'One More Day'
    (2019)

  • We Screenplay - Quarter-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Richmond International Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Ermantourage: Industry Next - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Houston Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Portland Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • StudioFest - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Big Swig/Series Fest - Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Stage 32/TV Script Competition - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Houston Comedy Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Creative World Awards - Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Austin Revolution Film Festival - Finalist/Short Script, 'Insignificant'
    (2019)

  • Austin Comedy Film Festival - Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Cooze'
    (2019)

  • Twin Tiers Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2019)

  • Creative World Awards - Quarter-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2019)

  • Creative World Awards - Winner/Best Comedy Script, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2018)

  • Austin Comedy Short Film Festival - Winner, 'Insignificant'
    (2018)

  • Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder, 'Hometown'
    (2018)

  • HollyShorts - Official Selection, 'Insiginificant'
    (2018)

  • Austin Micro Short Film Festival - 2nd Place, 'Insignificant'
    (2018)

  • Table Read My Script: Hollywood - Semi-Finalist, 'Insignificant'
    (2018)

  • Portland Comedy Short Film Festival - Semi-Finalist, 'Insignificant'
    (2018)

  • Screencraft Film Fund - Quarter-Finalist, 'Insignificant'
    (2018)

  • Women Who Write In Film - Semi-Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2018)

  • Table Read My Script: Austin - Semi-Finalist, 'A Short Burst of Infatuation'
    (2018)

  • Table Ready My Script: Park City - Semi-Finalist, 'A Short Burst of Infatuation'
    (2018)

  • Space & Time Film Festival - Winner/Short Screenplay, 'Hometown'
    (2018)

  • Women Who Write in Film - Semi-Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2018)

  • ISA Fast Track Fellowship VI - Grand Prize Winner, 'Hometown'
    (2017)

  • Live Read/LA - Finalist, 'Hometown'
    (2017)

  • Fox Writers' Lab - Semi-Finalist, 'Hometown'
    (2017)

  • Other Worlds Austin - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Hometown'
    (2017)

  • OtherWorlds Austin - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2017)

  • Filmmakers.com/1st TV Pilot Competition - 8th Place, 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Austin Revolution Film Festival - Finalist, 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Nashville Film Festival - Semi-Finalist, 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Emerging Screenplay Competition - Top-100, 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Nashville Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot, 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • New York Screenplay Competition - Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Nashville Film Festival - Semi-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • Emerging Screenplay Contest - Top 100/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2016)

  • WIFNY/Meryl Streep Writers Lab - Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2015)

  • Screencraft Fellowship - Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2015)

  • New York Screenplay Competition - Finalist, 'Hometown'
    (2015)

  • Marque Lights Script Competition - Finalist, 'Average'
    (2015)

  • Circus Road Screenplay Competition - Semi-Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2015)

  • Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition - Semi-Finalist, 'Average'
    (2015)

  • Marque Lights - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Average'
    (2015)

  • Marque Lights - Quarter-Finalist/TV Pilot 'Hometown'
    (2015)

  • Comedy Screenplay Contest - 3rd Place, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2014)

  • Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition - Top-10, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2014)

  • Screenplay Fest, Semi-Finalist, 'Average'
    (2014)

  • Screenplay Fest - Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • New York Screenplay Competition - Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • Fade In Awards: 17th Annual - Semi-Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • LA Comedy Shorts Fest - Semi-Finalist, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • Screencraft Comedy Comp - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • New York Screenplay Competition - Finalist/Screenplay 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • 17th Annual Fade In Awards - Finalist/Screenplay 'Where The Men Are'
    (2013)

  • New York Screenplay Competition - Finalist, 'WNPC: Campus TV'
    (2012)

  • Holiday Screenplay Contest - Finalist/Screenplay, 'Where The Men Are'
    (2012)

  • Final Draft's Big Break Contest - Top-10, 'Backseat Debutantes'
    (2011)

  • NexTV Original Pilot Contest - Semi-Finalist, 'The Assistant'
    (2011)

  • Fade In Awards: 16th Annual - Semi-Finalist, 'The Assistant'
    (2011)

  • Sundance Writers Lab - Semi-Finalist, 'In Her Mind'
    (1993)

Education

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