Jemal McNeil
Director Jemal
McNeil has worked professionally as an actor, writer and director
since the age of 12. He is a 2001 NAACP Theater Award-nominee
for Best Director for his work on Steel Magnolias, and
received three COLSAC Awards for Best Director for his work
on Corpus Christi, Fences, and his original thriller
What's Done In The Dark. Other directorial stage credits
include Born Losers, Conboyz, Blacker the Berry,
and Cercas. As a playwright, he has written Charlie
and the Church House, Roma, and Hysteria.
Jemal has also written an original screenplay entitled Chain
Slap currently in pre-production and has over 200 poems
written.
As an actor,
Jemal McNeil has done such notable theater as Othello
with Avery Brooks and Andre Brauer, Red Badge of Courage
with Richard Thomas, and King Lear and Macbeth
with Charles Dutton. Lesson and Sessions of a Madman's Confessions
is his original one man show, that ran for 16 weeks in Los Angeles.
He last graced the stage at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles
in Snow Angel. He is in currentlly in post production
of Cutter's Club, a horror film starring Tony Todd. He
has trained at Howard University, The Shakespear Theatre at
the Folger, and with Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Workshop.
