Independent Writers' Caucus
Megan J. Wilson
Megan lives in Los Angeles but considers the Pacific Northwest home. She’s worked at a publishing house in Seattle, a law firm in North Carolina, the NFL in New York, and a cannery in Alaska – and yes, there were bears. She was a writers assistant for CBS for 3 years, and she wrote and produced a 6-episode webseries (The Sanctum, 2009). She writes action/drama, action/sci-fi, and action/comedy, and her stories often feature families dealing with mental illness. She’s been finalist for the PAGE Award, quarterfinalist for the Nicholl, Script Pipeline and Austin Film Festival and she's been featured on the Red List and the Next List. Megan currently has two features and a short in development.
Megan is active in the LA-writing community, as co-founder of the League of Women Writers and co-founder of the Writer X Director Mixer. She loves quilting, snowboarding, writing graphic novels, and has a complicated relationship with her crockpot.
Honors & Awards
Finalist, PAGE Awards - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2023
Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2022
Official Selection, The Next List - 2024 - https://www.tracking-board.com/the-next-list-2024/
non-WGA
Female, 40+
AVALANCHE EXPRESS
(Action Feature)
When a passenger train traveling through the Alps is caught in an avalanche, the Syrian-Swiss conductor must surmount her own fear of being buried alive to lead the remaining passengers in a struggle for survival.
DROP ZONE
(Hourlong Procedural)
When the prodigal daughter of a firefighting family returns home to Montana as a forest service firefighter (a “smokejumper”), she clashes with the father who disowned her and confronts the sister who married her high school sweetheart.
DUSTRISE
(Horror Feature)
When two sisters take a back road to Burning Man to avoid the fees, their dream trip becomes a nightmare, as a 100-year flood wakes terrifying monsters from a dry riverbed to feed on festivalgoers.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
Female, 40+
unrepped