Taylor Tetreau

Taylor Tetreau is a screenwriter in Los Angeles, California. She’s been filling notebooks with scribbles as far back as she can remember — including across multiple Creative Writing electives as a Great Books camper at Amherst and later teaching her own screenwriting elective as a Program Assistant at Stanford.

Taylor graduated from Emerson College in 2013, joined the Writers Guild of America West in 2020, and has been a working writer ever since. Represented by United Talent Agency and Artists First, she’s sold scripts to 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Monarch Media, and more. She’s currently balancing rewriting two original feature scripts for major studios: a college-set romantic comedy and a coming-of-age straight comedy about a high school trip to Europe.

Taylor’s work focuses primarily on funny young adults finding their people and finding their way — inspired in no small part by her time at Great Books. Taylor told us that during her summers at Great Books, she “connected with like-minded weirdos from across the country” who shaped her creative voice and encouraged her to take her own dreams seriously.

Taylor also shared that she fell in love with so many major works of literature over the course of her time at Great Books — most notably, Walt Whitman. One of her most empowering creative experiences as a teenager was turning his poem, “Song of Myself,” into a piece of performance art for a Great Books theatre elective. Many years later, Taylor would quote Whitman in her wedding vows — with multiple friends she’d met at Great Books in attendance.