Q. Terah Jackson earned a MFA from the AFI Conservatory and a BA in Philosophy from Howard
University. A native of Washington, DC, Jackson’s storytelling is influenced by nine years of work
enhancing the education of Washington, DC’s youth through government policy and theater arts.
He is an honoree of the 2013 Writers Guild of America-West’s Feature Writer Access Project, writer of
a Nicholl Top 50 Screenplay, and a Project Involve Fellow, whose writing on politics (Rustin) and
science fiction (Julius-X on Dying Earth) have gained the attention of the Sundance Institutes’ writing
programs. He is a participant in the 2008 Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab, a four-time grant recipient
from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and a 2010 Participant Media Narrative Intern.
Jackson wrote the Project Involve short film, Counter, which has screened across the US and in
Europe and Africa. He is currently analyzing screenplays for a number of noted development programs.