Tina Andrews
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Tina Andrews

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TINA ANDREWS is an award-winning writer, producer, director and visual artist. Her nonfiction book, Sally Hemings An American Scandal: The Struggle To Tell The Controversial True Story, won the NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Literary Nonfiction” and the Literary Award of Excellence from the Memphis Writers Conference.

The book chronicled her award-winning CBS miniseries, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal which she wrote and Co-Executive Produced. It was the highest rated, most watched miniseries of the season garnering Miss Andrews the Writers Guild of America Award for “Outstanding Television Long Form,” and the NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding TV Movie, Miniseries or Special.”

The miniseries was based on her play which she directed, The Mistress of Monticello which had its premiere at the Chicago Writers Workshop to critical acclaim. Additionally, her contribution to film and television led Andrews to be honored with the MIB/Prism Filmmaker Image Award, and a Proclamation from the City Council of New York.

Miss Andrews was also writer and Executive Producer of the CBS miniseries, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; and she wrote the Warner Bros. film, Why Do Fools Fall In Love? starring Halle Berry. Her script for the film is the basis for an upcoming musical on which Andrews has written the book and co-written the music and lyrics. She also wrote, produced and directed the hugely popular Showtime animated series Sistas 'n the City; and she has an essay in the book, The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers Tales From The Hollywood Trenches. In addition, Miss Andrews has published essays in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Written By, Contents, and Creative Screenwriting magazines.

After attending NYU where she majored in theater, Andrews performed as an actress in over 100 film and television roles including Conrack, starring Jon Voight, Carny starring Jodie Foster, and her pivotal role as Valerie Grant on Days of our Lives in daytime television’s first interracial romance. But it was the role of Kunta Kinte’s lover “Aurelia” in the acclaimed miniseries Roots which led to an incredible collaboration with her literary mentor, author Alex Haley on the PBS series: Alex Haley’s Great Men of African Descent.

Andrews has been a guest on Oprah; CBS This Morning; Mysteries and Scandals on E!; PBS Frontline; and BET Now with Ed Gordon. She has lectured on screenwriting at USC, New York University, Los Angeles City College, Cal-State Northridge, UCLA, Colombia College, Fayetteville University, Indiana University, and the University of North Carolina.

Currently Miss Andrews just directed a sold-out staged reading of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Clybourne Park" at the famous Guild Hall Theater in New York, and she adapted her historical fiction novel Charlotte Sophia: Myth, Madness and the Moor, based on the life of Britain’s Queen Charlotte (wife of "mad" King George III) who was discovered to be of African descent, into a play. After directing sold out, standing room only performances at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Andrews is directing that play, now entitled Buckingham, at the Southampton Cultural Center prior to a run at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Additionally, The Mistress of Monticello, the basis for her miniseries on Sally Hemings, concluded a run at the Southampton Cultural Center and is being readied for a major theatrical production which Andrews will also direct.

Tina Andrews was named one of 50 To Watch by Hollywood Daily Variety. Visit her at: www.tinaandrews.com
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    • Charlotte Sophia

    • Myth, Madness and the Moor (Volume 1) First Edition
    • By: Tina Andrews
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 24-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Awop Bop Aloo Mop

    • Little Richard: A Life of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll...and Religion
    • By: Tina Andrews
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2022
    • Language: English
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