Felicia Pride

Baltimore native Felicia Pride is a Film / TV writer and director. Most recently, she was a writer on Ava DuVernay's Queen Sugar and sold a drama pilot to NBC's Universal Cable Productions. She is developing the feature Deeper with Universal Pictures and Will Packer Productions and is the co-writer and executive producer of the film Really Love, produced by Macro, which won a Special Jury Prize at SXSW. She recently made her directorial debut with tender, a short film she also wrote, which premiered at Outfest Fusion. Felicia is a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer. Prior to, she worked as a film distribution executive and an impact producer, and is the author of six books, including The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs. Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a resource for underrepresented storytellers that she founded in 2012.