WRITING, DIRECTING + PRODUCING
WRITING PORTFOLIO
BECOMING BFA | Half Hour Comedy TV Series
Created & Written by: Andrew Otchere
LL: Inspired by the web-series, BECOMING BFA is a comedy TV series following an elite college theater program attempting to use A.I. to turn its students into superstars.
AVAILABLE MATERIALS: Pilot Script, Pitch Deck, Live Pitch Video, Original Web-Series
Awards: 2024 Yale Innovation Summit Creative Innovation - WINNER!*
The Original Web-Series: WATCH NOW
AS GOOD AS GOLD | Half Hour TV Sitcom
Created & Written by: Andrew Otchere
LL: A coming-of-age comedy following the golden child of an African immigrant family struggling to uphold his facade of perfection while desperately trying to help his family hold onto their “American Dream.”
AVAILABLE MATERIALS: Pilot Script
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY SPEC | Half Hour TV Sitcom
EP X: “Bring Your Kid To Work Day”
Written by: Andrew Otchere
Based on Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary
AVAILABLE MATERIALS: Spec Script
UNT. COMEDY THRILLER | 15min Dark Comedy Short
Created & Written by: Andrew Otchere
LL: Bodies Bodies Bodies meets Alfred Hitchcock’s ROPE when 2 Black college students arrive early to help a friend set-up for her own birthday party only to find the birthday girl dead on arrival. Knowing they’d be prime suspects in an international homicide case, they instead hide the body in a chest and proceed to welcome in a frenzy of party animals to thee wildest 21st birthday party ever !
AVAILABLE MATERIALS: Script, Look book, Inspiration Trailer
KIRBY | Half Hour Comedy Drama Series (In Early Development)
Created & Written by: Andrew Otchere
LL: Kirby Mensah, an insatiable 22 year old living with an extreme case of Sickle-anemia undergoes a miraculous medical trial resulting in his inability to feel physical pain. When finally given the opportunity to live the life he’s always dreamed of, Kirby ventures to make the most of it. But when his desire to live a “normal life” becomes the thing that could kill him, how far will Kirby go to fulfill his dreams?
ELISE | Hour Long Dark Comedy Limited Series (In Early Development)
Created & Written by: Andrew Otchere
LL: After the unexpected death of her mother leads to uncovered lies about her identity, ELISE, a successful news journalist at the height of her career abandons her life in the United States to pursue “personal enlightenment” in Ghana -- hoping to learn more about the truth of her troubled past while creating a memorable docu-series along the way.
PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED WORKS
CREATOR, SHOWRUNNER/EXEC. PRODUCER, CO-DIRECTOR, WRITER, ACTOR
BECOMING BFA: The Showcase Showdown (2023) is a 9 episode mockumentary webseries following the drama that ensues in and out of the rehearsal room as naïve and fiercely competitive graduating BFA Performance majors at a cut-throat Midwest theatre school prepare for the moment that could make or break their careers, bank accounts and self-respect: SENIOR SHOWCASE. -- This is their story.
BRANCH OUT
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
SYN: 15-min comedic thriller short film that follows three Black friends who attend a house party at their predominantly white college with hopes of expanding their social circle but instead, experience a bit of… well, let’s just call it... “culture shock.” ;)
DEVIATE
CREATIVE DIR, PRODUCER, MODEL, DANCER
A Collaboration with the Univ. of Michigan’s EnspiRED Runway: an arts, fashion, and charity student organization on campus dedicated to uplifting of creatives of color through fashion.