Thaddeus McCants — The Parsnip Ship
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Thaddeus McCants (he/him/his) was Black and Jewish WAY before Drake made it cool, but he is also a Brooklyn-based playwright and television writer originally from Madison, Wisconsin. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Playwriting at NYU, where he is a Tisch Graduate Scholarship Award Recipient; he also holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. As a playwright, he is a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the resident playwright at Bloomfield College, and his work has been workshopped and performed around the country. His Comedy pilot ‘Lit Lounge’ is a finalist for the 2020 Yes, And Laughter Lab partnered with Comedy Central and Color of Change; and his Sci-Fi pilot about the Flint water crisis ‘What Doesn’t Kill Us…’ was a semi-finalist for the 2020 ATX Pitch Competition sponsored by Sundance and The Black List. www.thaddeusmccants.com

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