| Nichelle Tramble Spellman | |
| Other Names: | Nichelle D. Tramble |
| Birth Date: | 11 February 1967[1] |
| Birth Place: | Alameda County, California |
| Spouse: | Malcolm Spellman |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Television writer and producer |
| Years Active: | 2007–present |
Nichelle D. Tramble Spellman (born February 11, 1967) is an American television producer and writer.
In 2017, Spellman, and her husband, Malcolm Spellman, began to co-produce and co-write an alternate history television series for HBO, called Confederate, set in a present day America where slavery remained legal. The pair found themselves called upon to explain how African-American producers could be involved in a show focused around slavery.
She has worked as a writer or producer on The Good Wife, Justified, Mercy, Harper's Island and Women's Murder Club.
Nichelle Tramble Spellman is the creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told, starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Ron Cephas Jones, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach, Tracie Thoms, and Annabella Sciorra. The limited series is inspired by the 2017 novel Are You Sleeping.
Truth Be Told debuted on Apple TV+ on December 6, 2019. In February 2020, Spellman won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for "Monster", the first episode of the series.[2]
Spellman is also the author of the novels The Dying Ground and The Last King, published by Random House/Ballantine.
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Producer | ||||
| 2007–08 | Women's Murder Club | Wrote: "No Opportunity Necessary" and teleplay: "Never Tell" | |||
| 2009 | Harper's Island | Episode: "Seep" | |||
| 2010 | Mercy | Episodes: "I Saw This Pig and I Thought of You" and "There is No Superwoman" | |||
| 2012 | Justified | Story and teleplay: "When the Guns Come Out", also executive story editor | |||
| 2012–16 | The Good Wife | Wrote 5 episodes Also co-producer, supervising, co-executive, and consulting producer | |||
| 2019–21 | Truth Be Told | Creator, wrote 3 episodes | |||
| 2021 | Snowfall | Consulting producer | |||
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Spur Awards | Spur Award for Best Drama Script (Fiction) | Justified | [3] | ||
| 2014 | Writers Guild of America Awards | Drama Series | The Good Wife | [4] | ||
| 2015 | [5] | |||||
| 2020 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Truth Be Told (for "Monster") |