Felicia Pride is a writer, producer, director, and founder whose nearly twenty-five-year career in media and entertainment has been devoted to telling resonant stories of the often overlooked, building creative worlds, and finding meaningful ways to connect those stories with audiences. She is currently the Creator, Showrunner, and Executive Producer of the highly anticipated A Different World sequel, premiering on Netflix in September. Her television work also includes Bel-Air, Grey’s Anatomy, and Queen Sugar. Across her career, Felicia has developed a body of work that centers rich, nuanced characters and expands the kinds of stories, and people, we get to see on screen. In film, Felicia wrote and executive produced Really Love, which became a Top Ten Movie on Netflix and has features in development at Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. As a director, Felicia gravitates toward intimate, emotionally honest storytelling. Her directorial debut, tender, is an award-winning short film that aired on STARZ. She followed it with Look Back at It, a short that won the Audience Award at the BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize. Felicia is also the founder of HONEY CHILE, an independent media and production company created to illuminate the lives, power, and influence of Black women 40+. Through original film, television, audio, editorial, book projects, and experiences, HONEY CHILE has built an ecosystem of stories and community around an audience that has been both culturally influential and historically underserved.
