2025 Stowe Story Labs / USVAA Veterans Fellow Announced
STOWE STORY LABS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FELLOW FOR THE 2025 VETERANS FELLOWSHIP, SUPPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES VETERANS’ ARTISTS ALLIANCE (USVAA).
United States Air Force Veteran Lynelle White has been awarded the 2025 Stowe Story Labs / USVAA Veterans Fellowship. We offer our congratulations to Lynelle. Through this fellowship, Lynelle will attend Stowe’s Late June Writers’ Retreat (June 27 – July 1, 2025) and, after the Retreat, will receive a one-on-one script note consultation with a top industry mentor.
We also wish to thank our alumni selection committee for their very good work on this review process: Anna Cain (U.S. Army); Alexandra Hensley (U.S. Marine Corps); Elaine Little (U.S. Army); Jackie Perez (U.S. Navy); Todd Tavolazzi (U.S. Navy); and Heidi Willis (U.S. Air Force).
THE STOWE STORY LABS VETERANS FELLOW:
2025 Veterans Fellow
Lynelle White (Air Force) — Los Angeles, CA, USA — Act Two // Dramedy TV – 1 hour
Logline: A timid, 45 year-old data analyst who lives life vicariously through her daydreams, often to her own detriment, embarks on a true-life adventure to become a Hollywood screenwriter despite her dysfunctional, grief-stricken family. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY meets AMERICAN FICTION.
Bio: Lynelle White is a former Air Force pilot turned screenwriter. Her TV writing credits include BLACK LIGHTNING, Z NATION and ARMY WIVES. While attending UCLA’s MFA in Screenwriting program, Lynelle was awarded the NAACP/NBC Universal Television Fellowship and the Women in Film (WIF) Eleanor Perry Writing Award. She was also a fellow in Film Independent’s Episodic Lab. Lynelle’s latest script, ACT TWO, was recently selected for “The Women’s List”, a curated list of the top unproduced scripts written by women writers. In her writing, Lynelle enjoys blending genres and finding a way to put a twist on a familiar story that reflects her POV as a nerdy, Black, Gen X woman. She is currently pitching a heartwarming one-hour drama series about the resilience of a found family of Veterans connected through a VFW post. As a pilot in the Air Force, Lynelle flew combat missions in support of operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
