ISA’s Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood Winner

We want to offer a HUGE congratulations to Merrit Chelsey Schmidt, champion screenwriter from ISA’s Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood 2023 competition. As this year’s Grand Prize winner, she will have her screenplay, Suicide at Noon, performed at a live table read in Hollywood (and will receive a sweet $1500 cash prize, flight and accommodations in Los Angeles, and consideration for the ISA Development Slate).

“Merrit Chelsey Schmidt (she/her) has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and writes books of poetry under the name “Chelsey Minnis”. She’s written screenplays of dark comedy, artsy horror and opera biopic. A cinephile with a special interest in classic film, film noir, world cinema and opera, her sensibility tends towards things that are dark, playful, subversive and melancholy.”

Congratulations again to all the writers who placed in the competition!