
Minoti Vaishnav
WRITING SAMPLES
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ONE-HOUR DRAMA PILOTS​
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Difficult
Legal/Investigative Procedural
After an unjust, traumatic case brings them together, three "difficult" women -- a lawyer, a paralegal and a P.I. -- band together to take on the "unwinnable" cases that no one else wants to touch.
2025 CAPE New Writers Program Fellow
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The Secret Life of Samira Sen
Period piece/murder-mystery/serialized drama
In Victorian London, an Indian maid working for a wealthy family moonlights as an amateur detective, keeping crime in check while pursuing the one culprit that has continued to elude her...Jack the Ripper. Based on the Short Story "To Catch a Ripper" by Minoti Vaishnav
2025 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Pitch Competition Finalist
2025 Almanack Episodic Lab Finalist
2025 Rideback Rise Fellowship Circle Member
2024 OWL Writers Workshop Greece Shortlist
2024 CAPE Showrunners Training Program Mock Meeting Workshop Selectee
2022 Finish Line Screenplay Competition Top 16
2021 BAFTA Breakthrough Top 30
2021 Tracking Board Launch Pad Competition Top 50​
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Killing Me Softly
Murder-mystery musical/superhero
When a down and out gas station employee's sister is murdered by a serial killer, she must solve the mystery by embracing her secret superpower -- extracting truth via song.
2020 CBS Writers Mentoring Program Fellow
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Double Cross
Action-comedy/period piece
What do an American archer, a Brazilian heiress, a Norwegian street urchin, and a Russian dog-breeder living in London in the 1940s have in common? Well...they’re all spies. Inspired by true events, DOUBLE CROSS follows MI-5 Agent James Aiden Yardley as he turns a group of eccentric ex-Nazi spies into Allied double agents, tasked with stopping a dangerous weapons operation that could change the fate of the world.
2022 Staffed on True Lies with this sample
2021 Support.Her Mentorship Program Finalist
2019 CAPE New Writers Fellowship Finalist
2018 Final Draft's Big Break Semi-Finalist
2018 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
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Stratford
Crime/murder-mystery/serialized drama
When Romeo and Juliet are murdered in the small town of Stratford, Maine, detectives Othello ‘Theo’ Michaels and Desmona ‘Mona’ Duke are determined to solve the case. But when more murders occur and Mona is the prime suspect, Theo must figure out if his most trusted ally is really a killer...or the town’s only savior.
2024 Tracking Board Launch Pad Competition Top 100
2022 The Orchard Episodic Lab Finalist
2020 Staffed on The Equalizer with this sample.
Catalyst
Science-fiction/thriller
When 90% of the passengers on board a cruise ship mysteriously drop dead, the survivors must work together to figure out what happened all while encountering bizarre attacks and uncovering lost secrets...including a mysterious incident that connects them to the reason everyone died.
2022 Tracking Board Launch Pad Competition Top 100
2022 Coverfly Top 5%
2021 Women's Weekend Film Challenge Pilot Accelerator Semi-Finalist
2019 Catalyst Content Festival Finalist (Drama Category)
2018 HRTS + NYTVF Pilot Competition Winner (Drama Category)
2017 ISA Emerging Screenwriter's Competition Winner​​
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Knox
YA/crime
Knox follows Maggie Kim, a 17-year-old who goes viral with a scandalous “real life” social media diary on an Instagram-type platform under the fake name Cleone Knox. In order to keep up the ruse, Maggie must con the world into thinking she’s a 24-year-old, Manhattan fashionista instead of a high-school student from Queens. But as Cleone becomes more and more of an icon, Maggie realizes that being Cleone comes with scandalous consequences… consequences that if realized could mean the end of Maggie Kim, and the relentless continued existence of the cut-throat Cleone Knox. Based on the novel The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion by Magdalen King Hall.
2024 Rideback Rise Fellowship Circle Member
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ONE-HOUR DRAMA SPECS
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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: Forgive & Forget
Season 7
2020 CBS Writers Mentoring Program Fellow
2020 WB Writers Workshop Semi-Finalist
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Outlander
Season 4
2018 NBC Writers on the Verge Semi-Finalist
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FEATURES
Cheryl McCarthy's Death Day Party
Dark Comedy
When 76-year-old Cheryl McCarthy finds out she has cancer, she decides to plan an extravagant death day party to celebrate her departure from this earth. Juxtaposed with memories of her life and all the funerals she's been to, Cheryl's party brings together estranged family, close friends, and old lovers, making everyone realize that life isn't ever what you think it will be...and neither is death.
2025 Antigravity Academy Feature Lab Finalist (Top 20)
2025 Moonshot Initiative Feature Lab Finalist (Top 40)
2023 1497 Feature Lab Finalist
2017 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Second Rounder
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Double Cross: Ikarus
Action-adventure/period piece
What do an American archer, a Brazilian heiress, a Norwegian street urchin, and a Russian dog-breeder living in London in the 1940s have in common? Well...they’re all spies. Inspired by true events, DOUBLE CROSS follows MI-5 Agent James Aiden Yardley as he turns a group of eccentric ex-Nazi spies into Allied double agents, tasked with stopping a dangerous weapons operation that could change the fate of the world.
2020 Written as a part of University of Oxford's MSt in Creative Writing Program
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