Uptown Tonight
Uptown Tonight
Television (Half-hour)
· Musical · 37 pages
Status: Spec
An ambitious lawyer returns to Harlem to follow his dreams of running a famous Black theater. But keeping this place in business means choosing chaos with the aspiring stars, fading entertainers, jaded staff and unruly audiences that make this stage so legendary.
Written by
Derek Lee McPhatter
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Chicago, IL
Derek is a writer with a penchant for sharp dialogue and multi-layered characters, shaped by over a decade of experiences as an award-winning playwright, producer and consultant for non-profit organizations. He channels his social anxiety into forward-looking narratives at collisions of identity, technology and ethics. (And no, he didn’t use ChatGP...
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Additional Project Info
Pilot selected for Inaugural Writers Intensive by Breaking Light Studio 2021/2022. Pilot Advanced to Second Round of Black Boy Writes & Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative via Stage32 / Mike Gauyo. Pilot Advanced to Semi-Finals as part of my package to the ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship.