Derek McPhatter

Content Writer

Derek’s writing honors, residencies and awards include: commissions from UCLA (It Goes Unsaid) and Freedom train Productions (Bring the Beat Back); grants and awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Harlem Arts Alliance, and the United States Embassy in the United Kingdom. His work has been presented/supported by The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), UCLA, Harlem Stage, the Bowery Poetry Club, Harlem9, Horse Trade Theater Group, Brooklyn's Jack Theater, and The Fire This Time Festival, with two plays published by Indie Theater Now.

 

In 2013, he co-created the indie webseries, She’s Out of Order , with his collaborators at Under the Spell Productions, Inc. Other credits include selection for the 2013 Disney-ABC Diversity Impact Workshop; top 10% placement in the 2012 Austin Film Festival (sitcom category); and a 2012 fellowship in the final year of the Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, sponsored by Bill and Camille Cosby. 

 

For several years, he worked at Harlem's Apollo Theater, developing new arts and entertainment programs as he built his writing portfolio. He holds a BA from Morehouse College and an MA from NYU.

 

Derek is originally from Pickerington, Ohio. He has lived in Atlanta, GA and Osaka Japan, and currently splits his time between Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

 

 

See our She's Out of Order Website