KHARI WYATT

Khari Wyatt has written for theatre, television, and various journalistic publications such as the National Urban Leagues “Opportunity Journal”.

His work has placed in various competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Fellowship, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and Writer’s-for-Writer’s Diversity Fellowship among others. Some of the fellowships and grants he has received came from the MacDowell Colony, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and the Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant.

He was recently selected to write and develop his play, Starchild, in the Circle X Theatre Company Evolving Playwrights Group.  He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David.  His audio play, “Zip Code 90011 South Central Los Angeles: Speakeasy,” was commissioned and will be produced by Antaeus Theatre Company in fall 2020.  Moving Arts, Chalk Repertory Theatre as well as the DC Black Theatre Festival have hosted his plays for readings and workshops.  His play “Some Type of Ecstasy” was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference.  His ten-minute play, “Ingredients,” was presented as part of the Moving Arts- Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Night at the Museum.   He currently is a writer for Moving Arts’ web series, “Isolation Inn” being aired on YouTube in fall 2020.

Wyatt is an alumnus of Howard University, earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York, and also completed the Summer Legal Institute at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is member of Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab and Moving Arts.