A former story editor and staff writer for The Steve Harvey Show, Josslyn Luckett wrote the original teleplay for the MTV movie, Love Song, starring Monica Arnold and Christian Kane and directed by Julie Dash. Her plays, “Rupture/Runnin’ Thru Risk/Runnin’ To Bliss” and “Chronicles of a Comic Mulatta: an oreo/choreopoem” have been performed at the Walnut Street Theatre, The Public Theater, and Aaron Davis Hall. Her solo piece, “Imitation Expert” was developed in Roger Guenveur Smith’s 2005 Mark Taper Forum workshop and performed at REDCAT in 2007. Her most recent play, “Like Her Shanti Doesn’t Stink: Black Women Eye to Iyengar” was commissioned by Company of Angels as part of their 2009 Black Women: State of the Union. In 2008/2009 she curated a six concert series at Culver City’s Jazz Bakery called, “Come Sunday: Jazz on the Sacred Side” featuring such artists as Dwight Trible, Lesa Terry, Justo Almario and Roberto Miranda. She has a BA from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing, and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, where in 2011 she won the historic Billings Preaching Prize. She is an alum of the Sundance Playwrights and Screenwriters’ Labs and Film Independent’s Directing Lab where she also taught screenwriting and participated as a screenwriting mentor for Project Involve. Josslyn is currently completing her PhD in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research areas include jazz studies and independent cinemas of the U.S. Third World Left and the African Diaspora.