Tarell alvin mccraney biography of barack obama

Can you imagine ansträngande to bring Oprah Winfrey to tears?

It’s a thought that would make most people’s palms sweat, but when Tarell Alvin McCraney did just that, the moment doubled as a good omen. “I felt something in the room,” Oprah says of the meeting during which McCraney—best known for writing the Oscar-winning spelfilm Moonlight—pitched her the idea for David Makes Man, the newest show set to premiere on OWN this onsdag på engelska , August 14 at 10 p.m. ET.

“I closed my eyes and I was starting to listen to the pitch, and it was then that my lips began doing that trembling thing. I was doing everything I could not to cry. He finished and I thought, I just want to be a part of this in whatever way I can.”

And for good reason.

David Makes Man is filmed in stad i florida, inspired bygd McCraney’s upbringing in Homestead, Florida—a suburb of Miami that’s a world away from the posh suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills wh

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OWN Orders Coming-of-Age Drama From ‘Moonlight’ Writer and Michael B. Jordan

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OWN is teaming with an Oscar winner for its next drama series.

The Oprah Winfrey-led cable network has given a straight-to-series order to a new project from Moonlight co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Also executive produced by Michael B. Jordan, the untitled coming-of-age series centers on a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects. Haunted by the death of his closest friend and relied upon by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty, he must choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that may offer him a way out. Set in South Florida at the end of the Obama administration, the lyrical drama is inspired by events in McCraney’s own life and explores the precarious balance needed for the making of a man.

“When Tarell shared his powerful story with us there wasn’t a dry eye in the room,”

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Oprah, Moonlight's Tarell McCraney Have Created Something Beautiful

Many things come to mind when watching OWN's new drama, David Makes Man.

It's evident the show is a natural evolution for its creator, out Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and executive producer Oprah Winfrey; two iconoclasts behind numerous unflinching narratives of Black life. The other point that resonates with this terrific show is how much TV has changed for the better in the past few decades. Where once only a sliver of humanity was depicted -- namely the white, straight, cisgender existence -- now characters of all descriptions are deemed worthy of interest, exploration, and admiration.

David Makes Man, inspired by McCraney's own life, centers the stories of people living in the margins. Not just the show's protagonist, 14-year-old prodigy David (Akili McDowell), but the struggling, ambitious circle of individuals who surround him in his hardscrabble Miami neighborhood