About

The Hire Disabled Writers Initiative is a multi-pronged effort to break down the most pressing barriers holding back disabled creatives by providing both these artists and the industry at-large with equitable and innovative solutions to put more disabled people in positions of power.

“Disabled writers, directors, and actors are rarely hired to work on projects that feature disabled characters because studios and production companies have prioritized hiring disability consultants. At the same time, the industry often sees disabled creatives as only worth considering for projects that have disabled characters, and they’re rarely considered for projects that leverage their unique perspectives and life experience beyond their disability. This perpetual employment limbo leaves disabled creatives without agency over their own stories or careers.”

Letter to Hollywood

Lauren Ridloff

Ali Stroker

Brandon Sonnier

Daniel Durant

Supported by industry leaders including:

Marlee Matlin

Millicent Simmonds

Paul Feig

Tanya Saracho

Sian Heder

Timothy Omundson

Shoshannah Stern

Jason Katims

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Resources

For Disabled Creatives

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Disabled Consultant Futures Fund

The Futures Fund radically increases the leverage of disabled creatives who are asked to consult by providing them with a back-up offer of 150% of their original consulting offer, so they can confidently negotiate to be hired as writers, directors, and actors—their desired roles.

The Hire Disabled Writers Campaign

An LA-based out-of-home campaign that pressures the industry to “Hire Disabled Writers, Not Just A Disability Consultant.” The campaign is featured across billboards, digital media, and print media.

Disability Consulting Fact Sheet

A high-level overview of the disability representation gap and how disability consulting has served as a barrier to the hiring of disabled writers and other creatives.

Disabled Creative Bill of Rights

A standardized set of practices that ensure that disabled writers, directors and actors have the maximum leverage to be hired in their desired roles, not just as disability consultants.

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Disability Consultant Schedule of Minimums

A set of best practices that we have established from extensive research into the practice of disability consulting. This documentation should serve as a guide to what compensation structures are equitable and ethical and which are not.

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Building off our Schedule of Minimums, our Disability Consultant Contract Template provides a blueprint for an equitable consulting contract with key terms such as rates, working hours, turnaround time, publicity, and more.

Disability Consultant Contract Template

Compelling arguments against inequitable consulting offers and industry policies, meant to aid disabled creatives whose contributions are minimized as consulting.

Negotiating Points for Consulting Offers

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Email Template

Want to decline a consulting offer but not sure how to say it? Our email template provides a structure for disabled creatives to turn down consulting work that doesn’t meet their standards of equity, while promoting their talents in their desired roles and encouraging the hiring of disabled writers.

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Why Hollywood's Failing Disabled Screenwriters via the Consultant Trap

A Hollywood Reporter Guest Column by Inevitable Foundation Co-Founders Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska.

For Producers, Creative Executives & Showrunners

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The Hire Disabled Writers Campaign

An LA-based out-of-home campaign that pressures the industry to “Hire Disabled Writers, Not Just A Disability Consultant.” The campaign is featured across billboards, digital media, and print media.

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Concierge

A free, high-touch service that streamlines the sourcing mid-level disabled writers for development and staffing. Underpinning the Concierge is a curated roster of mid- and upper-level disabled screenwriters. We have their writing samples on file, in addition to in-depth profiles about their backgrounds and experiences.

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Disability Consulting Fact Sheet

A high-level overview of the disability representation gap and how disability consulting has served as a barrier to the hiring of disabled writers and other creatives.

An illustration of a newspaper

Why Hollywood's Failing Disabled Screenwriters via the Consultant Trap

A Hollywood Reporter Guest Column by Inevitable Foundation Co-Founders Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska.