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Richard Willis Jr.

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Richard Willis, Jr., is a successful & celebrated writer, producer, director, music producer, filmmaker, manager, and consultant.
He's a Peabody award-winning writer & project consultant, having won the award for his work on the PBS documentary series, “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.” He has also received two Emmy nominations as a writer on the PBS series, “I’ll Make Me a World,” and the television mini-series “Martin Scorsese presents The Blues.”

Richard Willis, Jr., is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in playwriting and screenwriting and grand-prize winner of the “Pitch Me!” competition, presented by the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE).

Willis, Jr. has written several plays, including the off-Broadway hit “Wasps in the Bed” as well as directed numerous music videos, commercials, short films, and documentaries featuring Robert Coney, Patti LaBelle, REYN, Isaac J. Sullivan. Represented by the ICM agency, he has now begun creating projects for 21st Century Fox.

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