The IDEA Council: Pizza and Conversation

Join us for an informal discussion with Thaddeus McCants (MFA '21), James Anthony Tyler (MFA '12), and Adjunct Instructor and faculty member, MJ Kaufman.

The IDEA Council: Pizza and Conversation
Navigating Your First Job as a Staff Writer
Thursday, February 9
6:30pm
Room 759
721 Broadway, 7th Floor
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Thaddeus McCants (he/him) was Black and Jewish way before Drake made it cool, but he’s also a Brooklyn-based Writer, Performer, and Director originally from Madison, Wisconsin
As a Television Writer, he wrote on the second season of HBOMax's ‘JULIA’, is in development with BET+ on his own series ‘LIT LOUNGE’, and is the co-writer of multiple AUDIBLE Originals with Author James Patterson and VICE Media
As a playwright, he’s a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow, Theatre J Expanding the Cannon Fellow, Theater Masters Visionary Playwright, KCACTF National Finalist, Goldberg New Play Prize Finalist, and a Semi-Finalist for both the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference & American Blues Theatre Blue Ink Award.
As a performer, Thaddeus has worked on the UCBNY Mainstage (RIP), Off-Broadway, on the high seas, and even in the Original Cast of Disney’s Freaky Friday the Musical. He is also a commercial director, directing spots for HP, Subway, and even a Super Bowl commercial for Avocados from Mexico
He proudly holds his MFA from NYU and BFA from Ithaca College.

James Anthony Tyler is the recipient of the 3rd Annual Horton Foote Playwriting Award and an inaugural playwright to receive a commission from Audible. His plays include Artney Jackson (World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2018 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award), Some Old Black Man (Berkshire Playwrights Lab at St. James Place and 59E59 Theaters), Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth Theater Company and Finborough Theatre in London). He has a MFA in Film from Howard University and a MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. He is also a graduate of The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. He was the Staff Writer for the OWN Network show Cherish the Day and was most recently in the writers’ room for a new Apple + Drama Series starring an Academy Award winning actress.