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Women's stories. Built for screen.

She
Builds
Stories.

We turn women's untold stories into screen-ready projects. No softening. No permission. No waiting to be picked.

"The world doesn't need another silent woman."

Raw. Fearless. Truth.

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Now open · our launch programme

Female Vertical
Drama Programme

With CenterFrame. Six writers. One week in a room in London. A pilot at the end of it.

Free to enterNo portfolioNo creditsNo permission needed

Entries open 14 September 2026

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What we do

The vertical drama programme, 1:1 coaching, and a six-week workshop.

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Vertical Drama Programme

Free to enter · with CenterFrame

Six writers. One week in a room in London. A pilot at the end of it.

Join the waitlist

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1:1 coaching

£110 per hour

Your script, your series, your pitch — one to one with Alice until it lands.

Book a session

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Six-week workshop

Online · dates TBC

Six weeks to find the story only you can tell, and get it onto the page.

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You have the idea. You know it's a great story. You just don't know where to start.

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Too big. Too personal. Too close to the bone.

So you circle it. You start. You stop. You wait until you feel ready.

And underneath it all, the quiet question — am I even cut out for this?

You are.

You need a room that takes it seriously, and someone who has been exactly where you are.

The industry wasn't built for your story. So we're building it ourselves.

What we're told

Normalise it. Birth, loss, divorce, menopause — cope beautifully, learn something, keep it quiet. The stories get softened. Then they get silenced.

What's true

Your story isn't too big. The rooms were too small. The gap between what you were promised and what you lived — that's the drama.

"We don't soften stories for comfort. We sharpen them for impact."

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How we work

Lived experience in. A story that gets made out.

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Excavate

The truth first. The rupture, the rage, the thing you were told to normalise. Not the tidy version.

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Shape

Structure. Character. Craft. Lived experience becomes a story that holds an audience.

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Build

Script, pitch or pilot. You leave with something real — and a route to the people who make it.

See what we do

The aesthetic

Raw.
Fearless.
Truth.

Flawed

Impossible choices. The thoughts we're never supposed to say out loud.

Sharp

High stakes, hard hooks, and no episode you can walk away from.