Sundance Announces 2026 Screenwriters Lab Fellows; Barry Jenkins, Lulu Wang and More to Advise
Variety
The Sundance Institute has announced the filmmakers selected for its 2026 Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive from a pool of more than 3,800 submissions. The Screenwriters Lab kicks off Saturday at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, where the Institute’s labs originated in 1981. This year’s session is being held in celebration of founder Robert Redford’s mission and legacy… The lab fellows named are Aditi Brennan Kapil…
Sundance Institute Names 2026 Screenwriters Lab Fellows
Sundance Institute
Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the fellows selected for the 2026 Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive programs, which foster creativity and bold risk-taking, empower emerging voices, and support the development and launch of their first and second features… The projects selected for the 2026 January Screenwriters Lab and the artists attending are: Aditi Brennan Kapil (Writer-director) with Love Person…
‘Love Person’ Front & Center
American Theatre Magazine
Heart-pounding attraction, intense all-night conversations - Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Love Person captures the giddiness of new love affairs. But the play is even more eloquently realistic about the wear and tear that time wreaks on relationships. The story focuses on two couples: Free and Maggie, and Vic and Ram. Free is a deaf woman who communicates through American Sign Language; Maggie…
Startling ‘Love Person’
TC Daily Planet
… The play developed into a moving, nuanced, and provocative exploration of language, intimacy, and the real-world landscape of relationships… With a deft touch, Aditi Brennan Kapil’s play, through Risa Brainin’s direction, covers the shiny obliviousness of first attraction, filial jealousy, erosion of intimacy, and the connections and estrangements that occur through language…