RONNIE BUTLER
Actor, Writer, Producer
Spartan, Oscar on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP
CHRIS COOPER
Comic Book Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist
Marvel: Starfleet Academy, Darkhold (creator)
Novel: Songs of the Metamythos
(LUCY) L.C. CRUELL
Writer/Director of critically-acclaimed 31, Cemetery Tales, and Flesh. Winner of over 3 dozen festivals, competitions, and awards. NATPE Diversity Fellow, NEA Cutiv8 Fellow, and Inaugural Shudder Labs Fellow.
TARIK R. DAVIS
Actor and Writer
Addison Hadley, Star Wars: The Farce Awakens (People's Improv Theater), short film Page One
JAMIE BROADNAX
Blogger, Creator of BlackGirlNerds
WINNER Best Podcast of the Black Weblog Awards
Original Members
DESTINY LILLY
Casting Director
The Sound of Darkness (short), The Widowers, Between Curtains, Alina.
DARA TAYLOR
HMMA-Nominated composer for film and multimedia. Lifetime reality series Child Genius, and music department for The Wedding Ringer, Horrible Bosses 2, Ride Along 2 and ABC's Agent Carter and Galavant.
STEVEN BARNES
TV writer, award-winning author of 23 novels, including New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Cestus Deception.
Other novels include:
Lion's Blood, Dream Park (with Larry Niven, a frequent collaborator)
Devil's Wake (with Tananarive Due) TV: Outer Limits, The New Twilight Zone, Stargate.
WINNER NAACP Image Award
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Novelist, Screenwriter Novels include: Who Fears Death, Lagoon, Akata Witch, Zahara the Wind Seeker
WINNER 2016 Nebula Award for novella Binti
WINNER World Fantasy Award
WINNER Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
KEITH HAMILTON COBB
Actor, Playwright
Andromeda (Tyr Anasazi),
The Young & the Restless (Damon Porter). Stage: American Moor
TANANARIVE DUE
Novelist, Screenwriter,
Director
Novels include: My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, The Good House
WINNER American Book Award
WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD (and 2016 Nominee for Ghost Summer)
Short film: Danger Word
MELODY COOPER
Founder, ORIGINS
Screenwriter, Director, Playwright, Producer
Writer/Director: The Sound of Darkness
2016 Meryl Streep IRIS Writer's Lab, 2016 AMC Networks Shudder Labs Fellow, WINNER 2016 Women in Cinema Intl. Screenplay Competition
Upcoming: Directing a feature for Tandem Pictures in 2017.
Represented by Circle of Confusion
JOYIA D. BRADLEY
Writer, Director, Producer (EB Productions)
Co-Producer The Sound of Darkness, Writer/Director Azreal's Dissent
TODD J. NICKENS
Screenwriter, Director, Gaffer
Key Grip/2nd Gaffer: The Sound of Darkness (short)
Writer/Director: Karma Police (short)
Screenplays: Kirā
2016 Cynosure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalist: Pump and Punishment
AMANDA DEBRAUX
Actor, Writer, Director
Unfaithful (Oprah Winfrey Productions), Vamp Bikers, Act Nice (also writer/director)
Represented by Avalon Artists/BMG Models