Inevitable Foundation Announces 2025 Accelerate Fellows

Inevitable Foundation, a non-profit organization that invests in disabled writers and filmmakers, has announced its 2025 Accelerate Fellows: Anna Thorup, writing partners Chris & Charlie Frazier, and writing partners Zach Anner & Josh Flanagan. 

Supported by Netflix's Fund for Creative Equity, the Accelerate Fellowship is a six-month rewriting sprint that gives disabled film and television writers $40,000 grants and bespoke mentorship to develop a film or television spec script. Through writers groups, one-on-one mentorship, guidance from the Inevitable Foundation staff, and access to leading film and television writers, the program offers disabled writers everything they need to get their script ready to take to market.

“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,” said Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska, Co-Founders of Inevitable Foundation.

The new cohort joins 14 previously awarded Accelerate Fellows, who have received a combined $560,000 in unrestricted funding since 2021.

Since 2021, Inevitable Foundation has supported over 150 disabled writers, filmmakers and podcasters via its Accelerate Fellowship, Elevate Collective, and Emergency Relief Fund, and facilitated hundreds of general meetings for disabled screenwriters through its Concierge.

2025 Accelerate Fellows Anna Thorup, Chris & Charlie Frazier, and Zach Anner & Josh Flanagan all bring unique experiences to the program.

At fourteen years old, Anna 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 have 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 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. 

About Inevitable Foundation

Inevitable Foundation is a non-profit that invests in disabled writers and filmmakers so they can achieve artistic and financial freedom and use film and television to destigmatize disability and mental health globally.

Disabled people make up 25%+ of the population but represent less than 1% of writers behind the screen. The access, relationship and opportunity barriers holding the community back—for example, it’s 2x more likely for a disabled person to be unemployed and live in poverty—need to be broken down.

The organization’s signature programs support disabled creatives with the job placement, professional development, funding, networking, and mentorship they need to build thriving careers in the entertainment industry. Learn more about their work at https://inevitable.foundation.