Independent Writers' Caucus
Tracy Charlton
Tracy grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. After working in the film industry for several years, she moved to New York City where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her screenplay RAISED UP, which was one of the winners of the Meryl Streep funded Writers Lab, was based on a story she did in journalism school.
Her background as a journalist informs her work as screenwriter in terms of both the intense research she does for every project, but also in her interest in a wide variety of stories.
Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. And she did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan.
She currently lives in Marin County with her son and a dog named Pickles.
Honors & Awards
WeScreenplay Short Script Lab - Winner - THE EARTH ANSWERS -- 2024
Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO -- 2024
Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep - Winner - RAISED UP -- 2015
Non-WGA
Female, Over 50
THE EARTH ANSWERS
(Short; thriller)
When a young man gets a tattoo from a mysterious tattoo artist his life takes a turn for the worse.
NANO
(Feature; sci-fi thriller)
When a scientist specializing in nano technology pushes her research too far, too fast to save her dying husband, she inadvertently creates a monster. A monster one thousand times smaller than a raindrop, but with the ability to kill thousands.
CHASING SHAKESPEARE
(Feature; YA Action-Adventure)
When a teenage girl's father disappears amid accusations that he stole one of the Shakespeare's First Folios, she must find him and retrieve the Folio by solving a series of Shakespeare-themed clues he left behind.
Character-driven, Female-centric, YA, Action, Romantic Comedy
Female, Over 50
unrepped