I write stories about black excellence. Black history. Black love. Black pain. And black joy.*
Every story weaves a tale about how far we’ve come and how far we need to go.
*Not every story features black folks. It’s just my POV.
(Want to SEE some of my writing in action? Pop on over to my Production Company: CULTURE VULTURE)
Selected works:
Buffalo
Vanishing Angle Productions
Social Thriller / Feature Film
Currently in Development
After finding a stranger in the desert with a severed buffalo head and a bag of money, an estranged couple is dragged into a larger mystery that traces back to the checkered past of racial conflict in the American southwest.
Brother Attica
HBO Films and Film 44
Historical Drama / Miniseries
A quiet and withdrawn prisoner in Attica suddenly finds himself a leader in the prison revolt. As he fights from the inside to make the prisoner's voices heard, a small group of journalists and politicians fight on the outside to bring a peaceful resolution to the standoff.
Keith Broke His Leg
Culture Vulture
Web Series
After an accident, Keith is forced to see the world in a new way when his friends, his colleagues, and especially his wife don’t make life easy for the incapacitated.
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Fathers & Sons
Warner Brothers and SpringHill Entertainment
Comedy / Half-Hour Single Camera
Brian, a man with sophisticated tastes, wants to lead a quiet life after a recent divorce, but he suddenly finds himself saddled with his politically incorrect, sexually aggressive, and morally questionable father. And that’s before he’s met his new neighbors: an activist/feminist lesbian and her teenage son who has a Henry Higgins complex. Quiet just doesn’t seem to be in the cards for Brian.
The Black Class
Comedy / Feature Film
Currently being shopped
In order to pay for his father's medical care, a university professor teaches his impoverished siblings how to run an illegal gambling ring.
Swing Things
Birdland Films
Sex Comedy / Feature Film
A down-on-their-luck couple attends a bizarre swingers’ dinner party, in the hopes of salvaging a career and saving their relationship.
Keith Vs.
Quinn’s House Productions
Comedy / Half Hour Single-Camera Pilot
Currently being shopped
Based on Keith Powell’s life in which everyone and everything in Los Angeles is an obstacle, or so he thinks. With the exception of his wife...sometimes.