ActorsE Chat with Actors Michael Phillip Edwards and Brenda Epperson
Michael Phillip Edwards is an award winning writer, producer, director and actor for stage and screen. Notable works for the stage include: The Edinburgh Fringe festival Scotsman award winner runt (first black writer/ performer in the history of that festival to receive that award), multiple NAACP nominee and Paula Neiman’s Nat Turner featuring Roger Guinveur- Smith for the Green Way Theatre, Burn featuring Ingez Rameau, Long Bridge for the Ford Theatre and many others.
Michael has directed tours for New York off- Broadway, London, the City of Adelaide in Australia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Canada, and Jamaica. For the screen, Michael has directed several feature films, most recently “Haunted Jamaica” a feature documentary for Netflix. As well as the Narrative feature film Murder 101 now in wide release and VOD.
• Currently has two plays in repertory: Blood and Sister (starring Erica Gimpel from ‘Fame’)
• Past successes:
– Runt (Scotsman Fringe First Award for Best Play, Special Jury Prize Pan African Film Festival for Best Picture) ,
-Good Negro (Nominated for 2 NAACP awards),
-Murder 101 (Starring Tom Sizemore)
• Haunted Jamaica (Has been acquired by Netflix; screening in May 2015)
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