Camille Tucker
Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting
Media
Biography
NAACP Image Award-nominated writer Camille Tucker is a writer, producer, director, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at LMU SFTV. She co-wrote Lifetime’s critically acclaimed biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, which earned five NAACP Image Award nominations, including Outstanding Writing. She has sold scripts to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV and Disney and has worked with producers including Robert De Niro, Marc Platt, Debra Chase and the late John Singleton.
Tucker has directed six short films and has played at the Sundance, Pan African, Palm Springs Short, and Heartland Film Festivals.
Tucker was a 2021 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writer Program fellow, a 2019 Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship finalist and drama alternate, and a 2018 Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Workshop fellow. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from LMU.
More recently, Tucker has written Love on the Vineyard, starring Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ) and Derek Luke (Antwon Fisher), for the Lifetime network.
Tucker has directed six short films and has played at the Sundance, Pan African, Palm Springs Short, and Heartland Film Festivals.
Tucker was a 2021 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writer Program fellow, a 2019 Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship finalist and drama alternate, and a 2018 Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Workshop fellow. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from LMU.
More recently, Tucker has written Love on the Vineyard, starring Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ) and Derek Luke (Antwon Fisher), for the Lifetime network.
Education
Loyola Marymount University
MFA
Writing for the Screen
Fuller Seminary
MA
Theology and Film
University of California, Los Angeles
BA
English Literature/Creative Writing
Accomplishments
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Sony Pictures TV Fellow, 2022; The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel: NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Made for TV Movie, 2021; Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship Finalist, 2019; PGA Power of Diversity Fellow, 2018; Roxbury International Film Festival Best Narrative Short Film, 2012; Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, 1994
Affiliations
- Writers Guild of America, West