Dramatic Writing
Courses
Graduate Screenwriting Lab
Education
Howard University, BFA, 1967
Biography
Richard Wesley, Associate Professor in Playwriting and Screenwriting, is currently the Chair of the Department of Dramatic Writing. He was educated at Howard University in Washington, DC, graduating with a BFA in 1967. His plays include,
The Black Terror, a Drama Desk winner, produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre, in 1971;
The Mighty Gents, an Audelco Award winner, premiered on Broadway in 1978. The 1970s also saw Prof. Wesley embark on a motion picture career, penning screenplays for the motion pictures,
Uptown Saturday Night (1974),
Let's Do It Again (Warner Bros., 1975),
Native Son (1984) and
Fast Forward (Columbia Pictures, 1985). Prof. Wesley's teleplays include,
Murder Without Motive (1991),
Mandela And De Klerk (1997), and
Bojangles (2000). He has also written episodes for the television series,
Fallen Angels and
100 Centre Street. Prof. Wesley served as an Adjunct at the following institutions: Manhattanville College, Wesleyan University, Borough of Manhattan Community College and Rutgers University.
