Khari Wyatt

Khari Wyatt is the descendant of runaway slaves and inner-city America with its adversities,

tragedies and triumphs; the son of high school sweethearts: a mother who is an artist and a father who courageously moved his young family from the rust-belt to our Nation's Capital to find a better life; the grandson of men who wore blue collars in auto plants and on railroad trains; the grandson of women who taught Sunday school and waitressed in greasy spoons. He is a writer.

His screenwriting has placed in competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Program, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition and Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition among others. Some fellowships and grants he's received came from MacDowell, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant.

His plays have been commissioned, developed or had readings at Chalk Rep, Circle X Theatre, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Co., and Moving Arts. He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David. He was a finalist for New Dramatists, and a semifinalist for the O'Neill NPC, Ashland New Play Festival, Dramatists Guild Foundation Virtual Fellowship, and Bay Street Theater New Works Festival.

Wyatt is an alumnus of Howard University and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York.