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Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch: ‘The Acolyte,’ ‘Fancy Dance,’ ‘After the Hunt’ Scribes Among 2024 Honorees


Variety's 2024 screenwriters to watch include scribes who worked on "The Acolyte," "Fancy Dance," "Tetris" and "After the Hunt."

Image Credit: JD Barnes “I thought I was going to be a dancer,” says Bioh, who has written for the “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” and “Tiny Beautiful Things,” and will next pen the Disney+ live-action film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Once on This Island.” “You don’t really know where your story is leading you.” Image Credit: JJ Geiger It was March 2023 when Garrett decided she could no longer work from home eight hours a day training AI models for Meta, in her words, “barely subsisting.” Her debut script, “After the Hunt,” had only been at Imagine Entertainment since January. His big break came in 2017 when he was hired as a creator/writer/executive producer of the National Geographic anthology docudrama series “Genius,” which over the course of four seasons has explored the lives of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Aretha Franklin and Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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