Tawnya Benavides Bhattacharya
Tawnya Benavides Bhattacharya is the Founder & CEO of Script Anatomy and a professional TV & Feature writer.
Tawnya Bhattacharya is a professional TV and Feature writer, along with her writing partner, Ali Laventhol. They most recently sold two shows – a legal pilot, The Advocate, to ABC with 20th and The Walk Up Company, and a Y/A Thriller based on the book The One That Got Away with Murder to Hulu with Gaumont Studios. The duo are Co-Executive Producers who have written on over a dozen shows, including Netflix’s My Life With The Walter Boys, Bel Air (Peacock), Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) and A Million Little Things (ABC), as well as several TV Movies.
Bhattacharya launched Script Anatomy in 2011 with the goal of using her own experience and writing process to help others break in, navigate, and build careers in the industry. Her unique curriculum and trademark tools have helped thousands of writers sell scripts, get TV and Feature writing jobs, find representation, and write novels.
The Script Anatomy method has been brought to numerous industry powerhouses, creating Bespoke Writing Program Curriculums for NBC Launch, Warner Bros Discovery Access Writing Program, WBD Access x Youku Script to Series initiative – a 6-month development program launched in Asia-Pacific to foster Chinese-language scripted stories. She has also created Bespoke workshops, guest taught, or consulted for Onyx Collective, the HBO Max WBD Animated Shorts Program, the Disney | ABC Writing Program, The Humanitas New Voices Fellowship, the Austin Film Festival, the Producer’s Guild (PGA) Power of Diversity Workshop, Carleton College, NIKE, Hugo House in Seattle, the Willamette Writers Conference, Stage 32, The International Screenwriters Association, TV Writers Fund, Backstage Pass, theNational Hispanic Media Coalition and the CineStory TV Writers Retreat in Idyllwild.She has written articles for Script Magazine and been a guest on several podcasts, including the Screenwriters Rant Room, Scripts & Scribes, Sell Your Screenplay, The TV Writers Podcast, On the Page, La Lista, and more.
Bhattacharya did the WGA Showrunner Training Program (2023), NBC Writers on the Verge and the FOX Writer’s Intensive Writing Programs. She and Laventhol are repped by Paradigm, Adventure Media and Morris Yorn.
Testimonials
Script Anatomy pushes you to dig deeper and ask those tough questions upfront. In a very simple, straightforward way, Tawnya is able to demystify the overwhelmingly isolating process of pilot writing by giving you tools you can take away and use forever. Not to mention the incredible sense of community you feel the minute you walk into one of her workshops. I was on staff for three years before I took a Script Anatomy class and even after breaking over forty episodes of television, I still longed for a sense of camaraderie and partnership. Script Anatomy provided that for me and reminded me how much goes into creating a pilot. It is an outstanding class for non-working and working writers. I will definitely be going back.
Tawnya is a total pro. Her years working in television have clearly helped her design a unique curriculum for all the workshops offered by Script Anatomy. These workshops are run just like a real television writers’ room with plenty of opportunity for feedback and ideas from other writers. They also provide you with a concrete set of tools to help you realize your story vision and capture it on the page. I wrote the first draft of my original one-hour drama pilot in her workshop and a few months later sold it to Universal/NBC! I really believe that writing that script in Tawnya’s workshop gave me the encouragement, motivation and insight I needed to get my script into tip-top shape. Television writing is such a competitive space, so any edge you can acquire going in is crucial. Tawnya and Script Anatomy provide that edge.
On the first day of Tawyna’s Televisionary Writer’s Workshop, she laid out her expectations. She expects a great deal from the writers in her course because she’s preparing you to be a professional. The course moves quickly. The deadlines are strict. And, the workload seems endless. In other words, Tawyna’s course was excellent. Her unique approach to narrative and emphasis on theme truly elevated my writing. She gives helpful and honest feedback without being negative. As a working writer, she teaches from both an artistic and business standpoint, and I feel that’s what makes her such a gem. Take the course and thank me later.