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Nathan Ross Freeman is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Authoring Action. A Philadelphia native, Freeman is a graduate of St. Joseph's University. He came to Winston-Salem in 1985 to serve as th...view moreNathan Ross Freeman is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Authoring Action. A Philadelphia native, Freeman is a graduate of St. Joseph's University. He came to Winston-Salem in 1985 to serve as the first Resident Playwright of the NC Black Repertory Company.
Award Winning Script Writer, Filmmaker, Intensive Spoken Word Educator, Nathan Ross Freeman, an Impact Communications Specialist,was awarded 2007 B.E.S.T. Outstanding Faculty as Member of the Intensive Writing Faculty teaching Screenwriting/Playwriting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mr. Freeman was the 2008-09 Visiting Writer at Salem College: Upper Level Screenwriting, Introduction and Intermediate Poetry and Creative Writing. Mr. Freeman is a member of the NC Humanities Speakers Bureau, Founder of Montage Showcase Ensemble, Assegai Film Group, Mr. Bones Film, Llc, The Quad Films, Llc. As a statewide resident NC Playworks Playwright Mr. Freeman is a key co-developer of the NCEdTA state wide curriculum for Playworks in the Schools (K4-12). Mr. Freeman was a Panelist for the 2009 NC Arts Council Playwrights/Screen Writer Fellowship.
Nathan Ross Freeman, Author, Director, was Awarded the 2005 San Francisco Black Film Festival Screenplay Contest Second in Overall Scoring for “Hannah Elias”, Awarded Third Runner Up, 2005 Great Lakes Film Festival Screenplay Contest for “Geist”. Feature Films include: Mr. Bones, Godly Decisions, Authoring Action (documentary).
Mr. Freeman is the Writer, Director, Producer of the Independent Feature Film, Mr. Bones the official selection of 12 National and International Festivals, to include 5 Invitations and won First Place awards at the following : Best Drama, Editing, Scoring, 2007 Southern Appalachian Film Festival, TN State, Best Feature, 2008Auburn International Film Festival, Atlanta, GA.; 2009 Distinguished Film of the 15th Anniversary Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Festival, CA . 2009; Best Feature, Philadelphia International Film Festival.
Aileen Muhammad began writing short storis in 2007 and received awards for “The Front Porch”. Her “Conflict in the Sixties” was a finalist in the Glimmertrain very short story competition. Her stories were finalists in several North Carolina State Literary Competitions in 2008 and 2009. This collection of short stories follows Cowards and Angels, a novella and Sustained, a book of poetry and art, and Born to Exhale the Mundane, a chapbook.
Aileen Muhammad received her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing from Salem College and a graduate degree in education from Northcentral University. She is currently seeking a graduate degree in Creative Writing from South New Hampshire University. In the 1960’s, Aileen’s poetry was published in Journal of Black Poetry, Muhammad Speaks, Black America Magazine and many anthologies.
Aileen was born in Philadelphia and resides in Winston Salem, North Carolina.Her father’s mother Ottie Graham was a writer in the Harlem Renaissance.view less