From "Superman" to Man Featuring Lord Jamel Wade ~ Creator

JAMEL WADE – Executive Director/Writer/ Producer/ Director/Singer/Lord

The native New Yorker from of Fort Green, Brooklyn is a graduate Villa Julie College and Howard Community College, with a Bachelors in Film, Video and Theater and an Associates in Theater Performance and Technical Theater. He has appeared in The Rep Stage production of Anna Lucasta; South Pacific with the Heritage Players, Repeat Offender with the Howard "G" All Stars and most recently The Waiting Room with the Laurel Mill Playhouse and The Seven Lights Production of From Superman To Man. His film and television credits include NBC's Commander-in-Chief, HBO’s The Wire and the independent films The Highjacker and the Hound, and the TV pilot Behind the Badge. He has been in love with the entertainment industry since the age of 8 years old. As a child he studied at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and spent many days hanging around at Al Fann’s Theatrical Ensemble in Harlem. His directorial debut in 2003 What Face Evil, for the Try It Out Theater Company, was another milestone. Besides acting and directing, singing and writing. In 2005 he was instrumental in the founding of Seven Lights Productions Inc. Through Seven Lights he directed the award nominated documentary Directors on Directing starring Bill Duke, Robert Townsend, Fred Williamson, Melvin VanPeebles and many others.

Film projects in pre production are No Tomorrow (2012) & Shades of Grey (2013). His theater productions for 2010 – 2011 season are Superman to Man, Everyman, Runway “22”, Faust, Fences, and Everywoman the season opens with the DC Black Theatre Festival and continues at the famed amusement restaurant Dave and Buster’s Washington DC July 22nd, 23rd, & 29th with Superman to Man the fame novel by J.A. Rogers. Jamel is working on producing two spiritually based productions with Patrice Johnson, Lynden Bridges and her film Wisdom Seeds.