Derek Lee McPhatter

Originally from Pickerington Ohio, Derek Lee McPhatter has lived in Atlanta and Japan and calls Harlem home. Derek is a 2009 Resident Playwright with Brooklyn-based Freedomtrain Productions, which commissioned Mr. McPhatter to draft a new play, Bring the Beat Back, premiering at Freedomtrain's Fire Festival in August 2009. Derek’s additional accomplishments include publications in the journals Anamesa and Flash Fantastic, and the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. He is the co-author of It Goes Unsaid, the signature show for Under the Spell Productions. He was a quarterfinalist in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writer’s of the Future Contest, and is a member of the Harlem Arts Alliance and the Speculative Literature Foundation. He holds degrees from Morehouse College and NYU, where he completed his master’s thesis—Let the Kids Say Amen: Black Gay Spaces and the Hybridity of Gospel House Music. By days, Derek works at the Apollo Theater and hosted the 2009 Apollo Salon Series, a works-in-development program presented weekends in April. He invites you to check out his blog: www.itsdmcp.blogspot.com for more.

Shows participated in:
Citizen Jane (2009 - 10) Playwright