EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed award-winning Afro-Indigenous author, filmmaker, and comic Chad Charlie for illustration.
Recognized for specializing in Indigenous pleasure and underrepresented tales, Charlie was a author on FX’s Emmy-nominated sequence Reservation Canine and has since labored as a author on Prime Video’s upcoming Legally Blonde prequel comedy sequence Elle from Howdy Sunshine. At the moment, he’s additionally serving as government producer and author on Working Smoke, a docuseries in manufacturing with CBC.
A local of Seattle, Washington, Charlie started his profession in stand-up comedy and spoken phrase earlier than increasing into movie and tv. His brief movies Firecracker Bullets and Uuʔuu~tah discover themes of identification, cultural preservation, and resilience, and have screened at festivals internationally. A Movie Unbiased Amplifier Fellow, Charlie has additionally been chosen for the Sundance Episodic Lab and imagineNATIVE Administrators Lab.
In a press release to Deadline, Charlie stated, “I signed with Verve as a result of they lead with integrity and imagine within the energy of genuine storytelling. From day one, they understood my voice, my values, and the form of tales I wish to inform — not only for the second, however for the long term. This partnership looks like the appropriate house to construct one thing lasting.”
Charlie continues to be represented by 3 Arts with managers Luke Maxwell and Jonathan Berry, and attorneys Ben Jenkins and Bianca Levin at Gang, Tyre, Ramer.
