Jamel Wade

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. 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, and is in production on the movie Drugs 101 (2010). Film projects in preproduction are No Tomorrow (2011) & Shades of Grey (2012). His theater productions for 2011 - 2012 season are Superman to Man, Runway "22" and Everywoman, the tour includes New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC. He hopes to include Pittsburgh in that tour as well.