The 2026 Script Studio Workshop is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 3, and will take place at the New Prospect Theatre (207 Prospect St., Bellingham). The event is part of a series of workshops during CASCADIA’s regularly scheduled festival. It will be open to the public free of charge.

CASCADIA’s Script Studio provides screenwriters with a chance to hear their scripts read aloud by actors, to discuss their work with a panel of film professionals, and to network with women directors and other film professionals.

Four short screenplays, written by women, have been selected by judges from the film world. The four selectees are required to attend the Script Studio, if possible in person, and if not, electronically.

Each script is projected on a large screen for the audience, while actors read the script. Then the panel of film professionals weighs in, discussing the script’s strengths and weaknesses, and making suggestions for improvement.

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: Dan Larner, CASCADIA Board Member

WRITERS & SCRIPTS

• • “Humdrum” / Daniela Di Salvo
  • “The Red Line” / Tess Godhardt
  • “New Address” / Melissa Puente
  • “Room 407” / Laura M. Kemp

MODERATOR

• • Felicia Cosey-Professor of Film Studies, Western Washington University

PANELISTS:

• • Virginia Bogert, Award-winning Producer/Director/Writer
  • Sadie Stratton, Award-winning Actress
  • Ann Smith,  Editor, Script reader/analyst for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Playwrights Conference

ACTING ENSEMBLE DIRECTORS: 

• • Rich Brown and Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy, Faculty Members, Department of Theatre, College of Fine and Performing Arts, Western Washington University.

Breakfast breads and pastries, juice, and coffee donated for attendees by local bakeries.