Anna Weinstein, MFA

Assistant Professor of Screenwriting

aweinst6@kennesaw.edu
Office: EB 108

Anna Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Screenwriting and Coordinator of the graduate certificate in Screen and Television Writing. Her research and creative work focuses on writing for film and television, women’s representation in film and television, and industry studies. She mentors MAPW students on capstone projects ranging from feature screenplays to pilot scripts to screenwriting research thesis papers. Anna is editor of the PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional book series (Routledge) and SCREEN STORYTELLERS series (Bloomsbury). She serves as secretary of the international Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) and co-chair of the Film area for the Popular Culture Association. Anna’s screenplay projects include a limited series based on the life of Georgian author, Lillian E. Smith, and an adaptation of Richard Chase’s “The Jack Tales” for producer Robert Mitas (Ratched) with Jay Russell (The Water Horse) attached to direct. Her most recent book is Writing Women for Film & Television: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters (Routledge, 2023).

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• Concentration Area(s)
  • Creative Writing
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Script to Screen
  • STVW 6490 Screenwriting I
  • STVW 6496 TV Writing: One-Hour
  • STVW 7490 Screenwriting II
  • STVW 7495 TV Writing II
• Select Publications

  Recent Books/Articles

  • The Works of Shonda Rhimes (editor). New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024.
  • “Writing Women: Challenges & Opportunities in Developing Female Characters for Film/TV,” Media Report to Women, Vol. 52, 2, Spring 2024.
  • Writing Women for Film & Television: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • “An Era of Female-Driven Film,” Ms. magazine, Fall 2023.

  Recent Screenplays & Television Pilots

  • Giants of Veridity, one-hour television pilot based on a novel by Myiah Bengston. Amanda Toye (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, in development.
  • Inseparable, one-hour television pilot based on underlying material by Pamela Bryan. Amanda Toye (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2023.
  • Replacement Child, one-hour television pilot based on a novel by Reva J. Staniforth. Jennifer Aspen (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2023.
  • Cigarette Girls, one-hour television pilot, rewrite of a script by Betty Dixon. Antonia Bogdanovich (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2022.
  • Christmas Break, feature film script based on the book One Billion Seconds by Poppy and Geoff Spencer. Robert Mitas (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2022.