Stories In Development
These projects represent my growing slate of original film, television, and stage concepts rooted in emotional truth, Black culture, humor, healing, faith, and human connection. From psychological dramas to family comedies, each story explores what it means to survive, love, struggle, and rediscover ourselves.
TRIGGERS
Psychological Drama Series / Prestige Ensemble Series
At a prestigious Southern football university, emotionally struggling students and a grieving psychology professor navigate trauma, identity, ambition, and mental illness while hidden emotional fractures slowly collide beneath pressures of adulthood, identity, family expectations, and performance in a world obsessed with appearing okay.
STATUS:
In Development
JOHNSONS MEET THE JOHNSONS
Feature Film — Romantic Comedy / Family Comedy-Drama
When two Louisiana medical students from different backgrounds plan their New Orleans wedding, their families are stunned to discover they spent years assuming the other family’s race based solely on the last name “Johnson.”When they meet during a chaotic New Orleans wedding weekend, years of assumptions, grief, culture clashes, and family secrets collide in unexpected ways.
STATUS:
Feature Film In Development
The STRUGGLE is REAL
Half-Hour Comedy-Drama Series
A gifted playwright secretly begins writing again while helping save her struggling family café, forcing her to balance her gift, faith, family, and romance. Inside Helen’s Café, a lovable group of personalities navigate relationships, ambition, family drama, and everyday Black life through humor, heart, and complete chaos.
STATUS:
Television Series In Development
REKINDLED FIRE
Historical Drama / Family Saga Series
Inspired by the true story of the creator’s grandparents, Set in Louisiana between 1939 and 1971, Rekindled Fire follows Harry and Fannie as they navigate love, racism, faith, poverty and starting a family ending with twelve children. Their story begins on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the Jim Crow South, the series explores their journey through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement as Harry rises into becoming a respected preacher and voting rights advocate while Fannie, despite being illiterate, discovers her creative voice as a playwright. Spanning generations, Rekindled Fire is an emotional family saga about survival, sacrifice, resilience, and the enduring power of hope in the face of systemic oppression.
