Talent Guide

Rochée Jeffrey

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2017, Project Involve 2017, Screenwriting Lab 2021

Bio

Rochée Jeffrey is a Jamaican writer / director / performer. Her writing credits include SMILF (Showtime), Woke (Hulu), Bigger (BET+) and Santa Inc. (HBO Max). She also wrote the award-winning short film Suitable as a 2017 Project Involve Fellow. The film premiered on HBO in 2019. Rochée serves as a producer and writer on the feature film Throw it Back and Make it Clap For Trudy Jones starring Tiffany Haddish (produced by Paul Feig/Feigco). She has an adult-animated series executive produced and voiced by Lizzo and a half-hour series set up at FX. She’s represented by UTA and Rain Management Group.

Current Project

Not Your Average Queen

Logline

After a controversial ranking app is created for a high school to vote for their prom queen, a gender nonconforming teen decides to run in order to prove a point, but gets sucked into the pressure of traditional beauty standards, becoming the very thing she sought to defeat.