Raised in Upstate New York, Wendy (Jean) Wilkins has been a screenwriter, filmmaker and comedian in Hollywood for thirty+ years, racking up the accolades wherever she goes (Warner Brothers Writers’ Workshop, ABC/Disney Writing Program, Final Draft’s Big Break Contest, The Writers Lab, Austin Film Festival).
In 2019, was named one of ISA’s Top-25 Screenwriters to Watch.
Her scripts have been awarded in over fifty writing competitions including Emerging Screenwriters, ISA Fast Track, Cinequest, Screenplay Fest, Creative Screenwriters Awards, Space & Time Film Festival, Creative World Awards, and Scriptapalooza.
Always looking to level up, Wendy has even produced one of her pilot scripts, ONE MORE DAY, into a radio drama – currently with over 71K listens on YouTube.
You can also catch Wendy every night on stages all over Los Angeles, California and the United States performing her sassy stand-up comedy to the gloriously uncomfortable audiences. Or catch her jokes on the Pure Comedy channel on SIRIUS XM Radio.
Currently under the development wing of the International Screenwriters Association, you can contact her through them or directly on Instagram @wendyjean.
Screenplay Festival - WINNER/Best Drama Script 'Tinderbox'
(2025)
Screencraft: Pitch - Semi-Finalist 'Tinderbox'
(2024)
LA Comedy Script Festival - Semi-Finalist 'Where The Men Are'
(2024)
Creative World Awards - Quarter-Finalist 'Tinderbox'
(2023)
Palm Springs Screenplay - Semi-Finalist 'Tinderbox'
(2023)
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Ready To Rumble
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by Warner Brothers
Gabby Boggs/actor
Hometown Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Estranged first cousins battle each other for control of their small, dying American town but when their real enemy returns to seek revenge against them, they must come together to fight or have their town, their heritage and their ancestral home with a secret time travel portal wiped from the earth.
One More Day War ⋄ Drama When the second American revolution starts in Los Angeles, quick thinking reality show producer Kirby Lewis unites her Hollywood neighbors to protect their complex from the chaos, becoming a reluctant leader of the resistance against a homegrown fringe group fighting to overthrow the U.S. government.
Tinderbox Mystery ⋄ Crime When a fifty-year-old comedian and a thirty-year-old skateboarder are found shot to death in the woods in the San Fernando Valley, two detectives have to overcome their polarizing opinions about the hook-up culture in order to solve their murders.
Insignificant Comedy In a desperate move, a middle-aged Filipino-American man kidnaps a rich, middle-aged white lady thinking she’s his only option to thwarting his mother’s deportation but quickly regrets his actions when she proves to be no helpless victim.
COOZE Comedy ⋄ Drama After cheating on her husband, abandoned by her lover, and ignored by the world, a childless, overweight, ordinary, underemployed, failed Hollywood writer and comic -- a breath away from turning fifty -- finds the courage to reset her life and start over again.
Average Independent ⋄ Drama Fifteen years of trying, an overlooked stand-up has one last shot to make it in Hollywood before she packs everything up and goes home to become a dental assistant.
Where The Men Are Comedy ⋄ Romance In an homage to the great Spring Break movie ‘Where The Boys Are,’ after discovering her fiancée is gay, Merritt York runs away with her thirty-something girlfriends to Daytona Beach, Florida where they stumble hard in trying to reclaim a missed youthful adventure only to discover that what’s really missing in their lives is really, much closer to home.
Backseat Debutantes Drama ⋄ Independent Three middle-aged, former tenacious colorguard champion best friends are forced to examine the lives they ended up with instead of the lives they wished for.
SUNY Broome Community College
(1990-1992)
SUNY at New Paltz (New Paltz, NY)
(1990-1992)
iO West
(1990-1992)