Felicia Pride

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Felicia Pride
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Pride in 2014
Born Baltimore, Maryland
OccupationAuthor, screenwriter, director, producer
Alma mater Towson University (BA)
Emerson College (MA)
Genre Creative nonfiction, hip-hop, African-American literature, Young adult literature
Years active2001–present
Notable works tender
Website
Official website

Felicia Pride is an American author, screenwriter, producer, and director. She is the author of six books, including the young adult novel Patterson Heights. Pride has written for the television shows Queen Sugar and Grey's Anatomy . Her 2020 directorial debut tender received the STARZ/Lionsgate Short Film Award at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Pride was born in 1979 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her family moved to West Orange, New Jersey when she was young. She lived there until the age of eleven before returning to Baltimore to complete middle and high school. [3] She attended Towson University where she studied marketing. Pride received her master's degree in writing and publishing from Emerson College in 2005. [4]

Career

Books

Pride began her writing career in 2001, writing for the community newspaper Black Reign News based in Staten Island, New York. Over the period of 15 years, Pride has authored six books. Her motivational book of essays, The Message: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs was published in 2007. The book has been used as a teaching tool in classrooms across the country and was re-issued by NBCUniversal. [5] [6] [7] [8] Her young adult novel, Patterson Heights was a 2010 American Library Association Pick for Reluctant Readers. [9]

TV and film

Pride's first written film was the dramatic short The End Again (2014) starring Columbus Short and Tanee McCall, directed by Crystal C. Roberson and co-produced with Latisha Fortune. [10] The film was written as a prequel to the in-production feature film OpenEnded is in production. [11] Pride was selected as a Film Independent Screenwriting Fellow in 2016. [12]

Pride joined her first writer's room for the fourth season of Queen Sugar , and was also the story editor for the show's fifth season. [13] She is also on the writing staff of the seventeenth season of Grey's Anatomy . [13]

Her directorial debut was the short film tender , about two Black women in the aftermath of a one-night stand. [14] The film received the STARZ/Lionsgate Short Film Award at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival. [15] That year she also co-wrote and executive produced her first feature drama film Really Love , which received a Special Jury Recognition for Acting award at SXSW 2020. [14]

In April 2021 it was announced that Pride's romantic drama script Like It's the Last is in development by Will Packer and James Lopez, and she is also an executive producer on the project. [2]

Works

Books

Short fiction

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2014The End AgainNoYesYesShort film [11]
2020 tender YesYesYesShort film [14]
2020 Really Love NoYesYesCo-written with Kristi Angel Williams [2]

Television

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2020–2022 Grey's Anatomy NoYesYes
2019; 2021 Queen Sugar NoYesNo

Accolades

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2020 BlackStar Film Festival STARZ/Lionsgate Short Film Award tender Won [15]

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