Session
Making David Makes Man
SPEAKERS: TARELL ALVINÂ MCCRANEY, Academy Award-Winning Writer; creator, David Makes Man; TINA PERRY, President, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN); and PHYLICIA RASHAD, Award-Winning Actress, Creed and The Cosby Show
MODERATOR: KC IFEANYI, associate editor, Fast Company
Prolific writer Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight, Choir Boy, High Flying Bird) pushes into television with the semiautobiographical David Makes Man. He and key members of the team discuss how this unusually lyrical story came to television, the never-ending tension between commercialization and art, and the overall environment for artists today.