Introducing the 2026 October Colony Writers
We are delighted to introduce the writers and projects selected for our 2026 October Colony:
Alessandra Clark ~ Justin Kim WooSŏk
Lío Mehiel ~ Meagan Noel Fulps
ALESSANDRA CLARK
Alessandra Clark is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She has worked on television shows for Netflix, HBO, and TBS. She has a half-hour comedy called DRAMARAMA currently in development at MGM Studios. Her first feature VICKY was on the Blacklist in 2024. She graduated from Barnard College in 2014 with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She is represented at Untitled Entertainment.
SCANDALABRA
The wife of a brilliant writer accidentally conjures the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, igniting her own career but threatening to upend her marriage.
JUSTIN KIM WOOSŎK
Justin Kim WooSŏk is a writer-director whose work focuses on diaspora, belonging, and our changing relationship with the natural world. His documentary short film White Grass was selected for the 2022 Sundance Ignite program and premiered at HotDocs. His narrative short Sarajin was selected for the 2023 Indeed x Hillman Grad Rising Voices program and premiered at Tribeca. His work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, TIFF, Sony, and a Fulbright. He is currently developing his first feature.
THE GREEN CORRIDOR
Joseph Yoon, a Korean-American anthropologist, returns to his homeland on a Fulbright grant, drawn by rumors of a tiger’s reappearance in the DMZ - a creature long thought extinct on the peninsula. As he partners with a team of sound ecologists working along the border’s edge, their pursuit transforms into a confrontation with colonial ghosts, personal grief, and the limitations of human perception.
LÍO MEHIEL
Lío Mehiel is an actor, filmmaker, and cultural producer based in Brooklyn, New York. They made their feature film debut starring in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s Mutt, which earned them the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award in Acting. In 2024, Mehiel returned to Sundance, starring in the indie feature, In the Summers, which won the festival’s top honor of Grand Jury Prize. Most recently, Lío performed in the world premiere of Jeremy O. Harris’ play, Spirit of the People, at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and starred in Luca Guadagnino’s Amazon/MGM feature, After the Hunt, opposite Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri.
As a writer/director, Lío's first short film Disforia premiered at Outfest Film Festival, and their short documentary, Entre Amigxs, is available to watch on NOWNESS. Lío has had essays and articles published in Dazed, Talkhouse, i-D magazine, Autostraddle, THEM, and others.
MORT
After an aging Senator has a health crisis days before a critical re-election event, his family’s frantic effort to hide his decline from the public collides with his estranged (trans) son’s last attempt to be welcomed by the family.
MEAGAN NOEL FULPS
Meagan Noel Fulps is a former professional basketball player turned writer/director from Denver, Colorado, now based in Los Angeles. She’s drawn to character-driven stories that subvert gender norms, explore identity, and challenge traditional family dynamics.
Her feature "Hush, My Darling" was recently named to The Women's List, which highlights the best unproduced scripts of 2026. At the Nantucket Film Festival, Meagan received the Tony Cox Feature Screenplay Award for “Fight Like a Mother”, earning her a spot in the 2026 Almanack Screenwriter October Colony. Additionally, she was selected as a fellow for Women in Film and as a participant in the 2025 Tribeca x AT&T Untold Stories pitch event, both for the same project. She’s currently in post-production on her latest short film, "The Untying", starring Alex R. Hibbert ("Moonlight", "The Chi") and Hisham Tawfiq ("The Blacklist”).
ACT NATURAL
When a struggling filmmaker lands a beloved movie star to play her ex-husband in her comeback film, she can't tell whether she's directing the performance of a lifetime or feeding her own worst nightmare.
We’re looking forward to welcoming these four talented writers to Nantucket next month!