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Jackie Alexander is an actor, writer, producer, and director. His debut feature film Joy was awarded Best Feature Film 2002 by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, and named one of the Top Five Independent Films in 2002 by Blackfilm.com, which sponsored a national tour of the film that included screenings at the Director's Guild of America in Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art in Chicago, The French Embassy in Washington D.C., and The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York. The film also earned Best Actor and Best Screenplay honors for Jackie on the festival circuit. His second screenplay, Legacy, was a finalist at the 2003 Hollywood Black Film Festival Storyteller's Competition, a semi-finalist for the 2003 Chesterfield Writing Fellowship, and was a winner in Blackfilm.com's The Next Fifteen Minutes Screenplay Competition, resulting in its production as a Staged Reading at the Tribecca Film Center in New York. Other screen directing credits include the short documentary An Actor's Journey, and the debut music video Rain from acclaimed International Recording Soul Singer MelSoulTree.
Jackie recently completed work on his debut novel, Our Daily Bread. The project is currently being shopped to publishers. For more information, please contact Alexis Hurley at Inkwell Management, 212.922.3500, or alexis@inkwellmanagement.com.
Stage directing credits include the Billie Holiday Theatre's World Premiere of his critically acclaimed play The Desire (Six 2007 AUDELCO Nominations including Best Playwright & Best Director), the Off-Broadway World Premiere of Plenty of Time at Primary Stages in New York (AUDELCO Nominee—Best Director), Lemon Meringue Façade by Ted Lange, Losing The Light, and Video Direction for the World Premiere of Judi Ann Mason's multi-media play Storm Stories—True Stories From Hurricane Katrina. Jackie's direction of Plenty of Time was also honored with a production at the 2005 National Black Theatre Festival.
A short list of stage acting credits include: Acted Within Proper Departmental Procedure, Imperfection Flawed (AUDELCO Nominee—Best Actor, Winner-Best Play), The Death of Bessie Smith, Romance, Revolution, & War, Tell Pharaoh, The Authors Voice, which his company produced on Theatre Row, and the originating role of "Prophet Solomon Jones" in Raisin' Hell, a musical premiere by Motown Legend William "Smokey" Robinson.
Jackie has been featured on two recordings Spoken Melodies and 1999's critically and socially acclaimed The Price of Freedom-The Amadou Project, both produced by the late jazz great Weldon Irvine.
Projects in development include his two new plays Birthright and The High Priestess of Dark Alley, and The Prophet of Zongo Street, a screenplay based on the critically acclaimed book of short stories of the same name by Mohammed Naseehu Ali.
