Adam Davenport

Adam Davenport (born May 27, 1984) is an American film director, screenwriter and stage director.

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Background

Author

At 15, Davenport wote a short story titled Home which was published in the anthology Looking Inward, for which he was presented with an Award of Achievement by former President George Bush, Sr. in 1999.[1] He is also a two-time National NAACP ACT-SO Competition gold medal winner for Colors of the Rainbow (2000) when he was a junior at Marian Catholic High School,[2] and for Blood at the Root: The Legacy of Billy Holiday's Strange Fruit (2001) when a senior.

Career

Film

Davenport's short film Midnight Son, which he made as his thesis project while an undergraduate at Yale University, became the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Award, a distinction shared by the first films of Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson and Jared Hess.[3] Made by Davenport when he was twenty-one years old, the project was photographed by Clint Eastwood's cinematographer Tom Stern and starred Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Jack Mulcahy and Tony nominee David Harbour.[4]

In 2010, Davenport founded the production company First Lady Films with Leo.[5] He will make his feature debut with a big screen adaptation of John Kaye's novel The Dead Circus.[6]

Future Projects

Davenport is preparing to mount a stage revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night with an all-black cast starring Alfre Woodard.[3] A production of the classic O'Neill play has only been staged once before with an all African-American cast, in 1982 with Earle Hyman, Ruby Dee, Thommie Blackwell and Peter Francis-James.[7]

Filmography

Recognition

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ Sandra Del Re (2 September 1999). "George Bush congratulates teen on literary honor". Daily Herald. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED02980A2D367AC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 
  2. ^ Jolene Evans (August 24, 2000). "William Simpson’s admonitions, and a legacy for today’s students". The Star. William Simpson Essay Scholarship Foundation. pp. 3. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CVUmQMGME0YJ:www.wsesf.org/images/wsesf%2520-%2520spring-summer%2520newsletter.pdf+Act-So+awards,+%2BAdam+Davenport%22&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b Film Independent (June 1, 2011). "FIND Talent Guide::Adam Davenport". Film Independent. http://talent.filmindependent.org/filmmakers/adam-davenport/. Retrieved March 23, 2011. 
  4. ^ Unknown. "Midnight Son". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024659/. Retrieved March 24, 2011. 
  5. ^ "First Lady Films IMDb Page". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/company/co0321891/. 
  6. ^ Jay A. Fernandez (March 3, 2011). "What Oscar Winners Are Doing Next". Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/what-oscar-winners-are-doing-163950/. Retrieved March 3, 2011. 
  7. ^ Unknown. "Long Day's Journey Into Night". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0827189/. Retrieved March 23, 2011. 
  8. ^ "Adam Davenport" IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739266/bio. Retrieved March 28, 2011 
  9. ^ "ACT-SO: Everyone is a winner" BNET http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3812/is_200009/ai_n8918182/pg_3/. Retrieved March 28, 2011 

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