Felicia Pride Explained

Felicia Pride
Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation:Author, screenwriter, director, producer
Years Active:2001–present
Genre:Creative nonfiction, hip-hop, African-American literature, Young adult literature
Alma Mater:Towson University (BA)
Emerson College (MA)
Notableworks:tender

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]

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.

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.

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.

Works

Books

Short fiction

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2014The End Again Short film
2020tenderShort film
2020Really LoveCo-written with Kristi Angel Williams

Television

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

Accolades

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: N'Duka. Amanda. Film Independent Unveils Screenwriting Lab Slate, Names Fellowship Recipient. Deadline. September 6, 2015.
  2. Web site: N'Duka. Amanda. 2021-04-13. Will Packer Productions Teams With 'Grey's Anatomy' Writer Felicia Pride For 'Like It's the Last'. 2021-04-25. Deadline. en-US.
  3. Web site: Felicia Pride encourages students at her alma mater to #BeTheDream. Storify.
  4. Web site: Felicia Pride | Emerson College . Emerson.edu . 2014-02-27.
  5. Web site: The Message: Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs Focuses On Rap Messages For Youth . Hip-Hop Wired . 2012-10-16 . 2014-02-27.
  6. Web site: Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY . Read between the lyrics of these pop hits - USATODAY.com . Usatoday30.usatoday.com . 2008-01-14 . 2014-02-27.
  7. Web site: Pride . Felicia . The Educators' Guide to The Message . NBC Publishing . 2012-10-08 . 2014-02-27.
  8. Web site: Getting 'The Message' from Hip-Hop Lyrics . NPR . 2014-02-27.
  9. Web site: 2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. American Library Association. Young Adult Library Services Association.
  10. Web site: 2014-03-24. Exclusive First Look at Columbus Short in Short Romantic Drama 'The End Again'. 2021-04-25. Shadow and Act. en.
  11. Web site: Exclusive: Tanee McCall Discusses Her New Film, The End Again, and Opens Up About Her Marriage to Columbus Short. 2021-04-25. The Grapevine. 10 October 2014 . en-us.
  12. News: N'Duka. Amanda. September 6, 2015. Film Independent Unveils Screenwriting Lab Slate, Names Fellowship Recipient. Deadline.
  13. Web site: Jackson. Angelique. 2021-04-13. Will Packer Productions Teams With Felicia Pride for Track & Field Romantic Drama 'Like It's the Last'. 2021-04-25. Variety. en-US.
  14. Web site: Sandoval. Lapacazo. 2020-10-08. Writer Felicia Pride steps behind the camera to direct her first short film "Tender" — a look at a woman's sexuality.. 2021-04-25. Los Angeles Sentinel. en-US.
  15. Web site: Cummings. Sinead. 'Miss Juneteenth' crowned BlackStar Film Festival winner. 2021-04-25. www.phillyvoice.com. 27 August 2020 .
  16. http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklists/quickpicks/qp2010 2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  17. http://game.gmu.edu/stempluswomen/speakerbios/ Speaker Bios Stem+Woman
  18. https://wins.penfaulkner.org/author/felicia-pride Felicia Pride- Pen/Faulkner Foundation
  19. https://deadline.com/2016/09/film-independent-screenwriting-lab-fellowship-winner-1201813900/ Film Independent Unveils Screenwriting Lab Slate, Names Fellowship Recipient
  20. Web site: Robb. David. 2017-10-06. NBC Names Eight To Its 'Writers on the Verge' Diversity Program. 2021-04-25. Deadline. en-US.

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