Bio
Khari Wyatt is the descendant of runaway slaves and inner-city America with its adversities, tragedies and triumphs; the son of high school sweethearts: a mother who is an artist and a father who courageously moved his young family from the rust-belt to our Nation's Capital to find a better life; the grandson of men who wore blue collars in auto plants and on railroad trains; the grandson of women who taught Sunday school and waitressed in greasy spoons. He is a writer.
Recently chosen for a NEXT Commission by Antaeus Theatre Company, he is also a twice selected MacDowell Fellow in Theatre (Playwriting). His drama, Some Type of Ecstasy, is published by Next Stage Press. His plays have been workshopped and presented in concert readings at Antaeus Theatre Company, Moving Arts, Circle X Theatre Company, The Road Theatre Company, Chalk Repertory Theatre, and Morgan-Wixson Theatre, among others. His work has been a finalist or semifinalist for New Dramatists, Ashland New Play Festival, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Street Theatre New Works Festival, The Geffen Writers' Room, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship. He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David. His audio plays, “Zip Code 90011 South Central Los Angeles: Speakeasy” and “Zip Code 91331 Pacoima: Gold & Shine” were commissioned and produced by Antaeus Theatre Company for its Zip Code Plays podcast. His ten-minute play, “Ingredients,” was produced as part of the Moving Arts- Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Night at the Museum.
His television literary work has placed in various competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Program, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition and Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition among others. Some of the fellowships and grants he has received came from MacDowell, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and the Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant.
A member The Playwrights Union, and Independent Writers' Caucus, he is an alum of Howard University and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York.