Don’t let the sunglasses fool you: I’m not Jeffrey Wright. That’s not saying that I wouldn’t have liked to have been a film star (or at least an extra), but I prefer to write stories rather than appear in them.
I live in New York these days but I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois with some months spent in Mississippi for good measure. I learned to make television shows in Chicago but when the bottom dropped out of the TV biz on September 11, 2001, my partner and I took off for D.C.
I thought we’d find work at National Geographic or the Discovery Channel. One month later, I was temping in Baltimore and trying to get by on a few hundred a week. It was miserable.
We sent resumes to every network and production company on the eastern seaboard but all we ever got back were rejection letters. Then it happened: Discovery Channel called.
Actually, it wasn’t Discovery. It was a production company out of New York — a stone’s throw away from Ground Zero. They were producing a documentary series and they wanted me. It was luck I guess. I was New York bound!
Five years later, I decided to get out of the business and get into online journalism. I’m still new to it but then, so is everyone else.
No, I’m not Jeffrey Wright and I don’t want to be. I’m a storyteller.
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