Director Biography – Dusan Brown (REECE)

Teen Actor-Director-Writer Dusan Brown can next be seen in a lead role in the Netflix feature film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He joins Oscar winner Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) and Emmy winner Glynn Turman. Two-time Tony winner, George C. Wolfe (“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”) will direct while Todd Black, Dany Wolf and Oscar winner Denzel Washington, produce. Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the August Wilson screenplay which follows Ma Rainey (Davis), the “Mother of the Blues,” and the tensions that boil over between her white agent, her producer and her bandmates while making a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927. In the film, Brown plays ‘Sylvester,’ Ma Rainey’s nephew who has a severe stutter. The film will be released TBD 2020.

Hailing from Chicago, but having been in Hollywood since 2010, when other teens seem to hit a dry spell about this age, Brown, a high school…