Akil Rashad Anderson is a Haitian-American screenwriter from Miami, Florida. Raised in separate households by his immigrant mother and American father, he often writes about Black characters who drag themselves raw up the jagged road toward the American dream. He loves hip-hop, arthouse cinema, and watching—but not playing—American football, which is why he chose to preserve his brain cells by reneging on a Division II scholarship. Akil most recently worked as a Staff Writer on AMC’s BEACON 23 starring Lena Headey & Stephan James. Akil received his MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, where he received the George Lucas Family Foundation Fellowship.