Trey Ellis
Biography
Trey recently produced the Emmy-winning HBO documentaries KING IN THE WILDERNESS, which premiered at Sundance 2018, and TRUE JUSTICE: BRYAN STEVENSON’S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, which also won a Peabody Award. Trey is an accomplished novelist and essayist but is perhaps best known for writing the Emmy-nominated TV movie THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN starring Laurence Fishburne. He also wrote the Danny Glover & Whoopi Goldberg starrer GOOD FENCES which was shortlisted for a PEN award. He is currently developing AMERICAN TECHNICOLOR into a limited series at FX to be directed by Shaka King, starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Selected filmography
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King in the Wilderness
- Producer
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The Inkwell
- Writer
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Good Fences
- Scenario Writer
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Cosmic Slop
- Writer
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The Tuskegee Airmen
- Teleplay
