EXCLUSIVE: The Inevitable Foundation has unveiled its five 2025 Accelerate Fellows.
Those participants are Anna Thorup, writing partners Chris and Charlie Frazier, and writing partners Zach Anner and Josh Flanagan.
The Inevitable Foundation’s Accelerate Fellowship is a six-month intensive that gives disabled film and television writers $40,000 grants and bespoke mentorship to develop a film or television spec script. With the aim of getting these scripts ready to take to market, the program provides writers groups, one-on-one mentorship, guidance from the Inevitable Foundation staff. The program is supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity.
“We’re very excited to welcome Zach, Josh, Chris, Charlie, and Anna as our 2025 Accelerate Fellows. This cohort of accomplished writers demonstrates the expansive talent of disabled creatives and we can’t wait to help them take their projects to the next level,” Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska, Co-Founders of Inevitable Foundation said in a statement Friday.
This new cohort joins 14 writers who have received a combined $560,000 in unrestricted funding since the program launched in 2021.
Over the past four years, the Inevitable Foundation has supported over 150 disabled writers, filmmakers and podcasters via its Accelerate Fellowship, Elevate Collective, and Emergency Relief Fund. It has also facilitated hundreds of general meetings for disabled screenwriters through its Concierge.
Learn more about each of the 2025 Fellows below.
Anna Thorup
At fourteen years old, Thorup’s ambition to work in the entertainment industry was cemented when she was awarded a Make-A-Wish Trip to visit the set of The Office (on a Reddit thread about this trip, strangers still speculate whether or not she is dead now). Upon graduation from Emerson College, she accepted a variety of support staff positions at DreamWorks Animation, Netflix, and as a Writer’s Assistant on Best Food Forward on Apple TV+ before diving into writing full time. Since then, she has sold two half-hour pilots to ABC and has written on a variety of animated shows for Netflix, Nickelodeon, Apple, and PBS. She is repped by Sydney Blanke & Antoni Kaczmarek at Sugar23 and Stephen Breimer at Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson.
Anna will develop her half-hour series, Codependents, a coming-of-age comedy series that follows a work-in-progress wheelchair-user who has to learn how to get her life together enough to help co-parent her recently divorced, Type A best friend’s baby.
Chris & Charlie Frazier
This duo has written for film and television for the past ten years. They often center their stories on characters with disabilities, rooted in their own experiences with Cystic Fibrosis. They got their start after selling their TV series Flinch to USA Network. They have since developed both television and features with Warner Brothers, Fox, Sony, and MGM, among others. Their TV script Untethered recently won Best Comedy Pilot at the Austin Film Festival. Chris went to film school at Chapman University and is currently based out of Boulder, CO. Charlie studied at University of North Carolina and resides in Chapel Hill, NC. They are repped by Josh Adler at Circle Management + Productions and Eric Suddleson at Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan LLP.
During the Fellowship, Chris & Charlie will develop their feature film DUSTERS, a sports dramedy that follows four lifelong friends who compete in a senior hockey tournament to help save the local coffee shop, and along the way discover that getting old doesn’t mean giving up.
Zach Anner & Josh Flanagan
Anner and Flanagan have been close friends and collaborators since meeting in 2005 at the University of Texas. Zach is a comedian, author, and content creator with cerebral palsy. His writing on comedy series like ABC’s Speechless and Apple TV+’s Best Foot Forward has brought people together through meaningful silliness. Both shows were honored with Sentinel Awards for Outstanding Depictions of Characters with Disabilities. Josh is a disabled infantry combat veteran who brings fresh takes to genre series like sci-fi drama series Day 5 from El Rey Network and historical western Elkhorn on INSP. Head writer of the PBS mental health series How Are We Today? Josh recently made his feature directorial debut with Pickleheads, a pickleball mockumentary that highlights the inclusivity of the sport. Josh is managed by David Greenblatt with Greenlit and repped by UTA.
Throughout the Fellowship, Zach & Josh will develop their feature film The Handler, an expectation-subverting action thriller that follows a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy who is also the world’s deadliest assassin. Apparently, it’s easier to kill people when society ignores you.
