Session

Making David Makes Man

SPEAKERS: TARELL ALVIN 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.