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Brandon Broussard
I was born in Houston, Texas. Raised on Gumbo and Shrimp Creole until the age of eighteen, at which point, I ventured out to Howard University in Washington, DC. I majored in Political Science because I wanted to be POTUS and minored in French because that’s what the ladies loved. By graduation I learned that ladies loved French if you actually knew more than two words of it. My Presidential aspirations were dashed when I ran for student government and almost failed all of my classes, broke out in acne-universalis and lost to Teneshia “no one even knows who I am” Armstrong because she had smartly fastened Blow Pops to her handbills on election day.
After pleasing my parents by graduating from college in under six years, I was determined to figure out what I really wanted to do. I thought for a while and then it hit me. I should stall by going back to graduate school… for film. Turned out to be a stroke of genius, because while there, I discovered my true love, writing. During my first semester, in my first screenwriting class I wrote my first feature length screenplay, The Epicureans. After reading about Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, I went out and shot The Epicureans in ten days for ten thousand dollars. The Epicureans won at several film festivals including the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 2004 in San Francisco, and the Pan African Film Festival 2004.
After the festival circuit I moved straight to Hollywood to pick up the multi-million dollar check for my first studio feature. To my surprise, I could not find it. Sleeping on friends' couches, I reached out to everyone I knew, and got my first Hollywood job at a Warner Brother’s sit-com, The Eve Show. I worked my way up from production assistant to writer’s assistant, and during the same year, was accepted to the Bill Cosby screenwriting program at USC. Shortly after finishing the program, I learned that Tyler Perry was interviewing writers for his new TV show, House of Payne. The head writer loved me but the Executive Producer hated me so they split the difference and hired me as a script coordinator. The head writer promised that if I stuck by her, I would get my shot. And, sure enough, a year later, I wrote my first freelance script for House of Payne.
In 2008, Tyler Perry’'s entrepreneurial spirit rubbed off on me and I started my own T-shirt company, Barack the Vote. My company was so successful (sold 50,000 t-shirts and did almost $1 million in sales) that I had to quit my assistant job at House of Payne, to run it. Later that year I was hired as a full time staff writer on House of Payne and Meet the Browns.
While TP Studios was a great learning ground, I knew that it wasn'’t my true comedic voice. So in October of 2008, I left for good and started my own web series/sketch show, called PURPLE STUFF TV. And now, much like In Living Color, Mad TV and Chappelle's Show, PURPLE STUFF TV is poised to be the next step in the evolution of great sketch shows.
Jana Savage
Jana Savage was born and raised in the metropolis that is Bangor, Maine. She is the product of a wonderfully large and loving family that encouraged her to set her sights high. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a degree in economics and minor in Spanish. She also graduated with a debt that will take her twenty years to pay off. Fortunately, she figured out a way to pay off that debt; by moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. After years of acting classes, auditions, and heartache, Jana landed a few commercials, indie films and web series before she found herself auditioning to be the host of PURPLE STUFF TV. While she didn't get the part, she got something much better; the opportunity to be a cast member and writer for PURPLE STUFF TV. Jana spends most of her down time on her other passion in life, animal rescue. Her boyfriend is going to kill her if she brings home one more dog. She resides in Santa Monica with her boyfriend, Casey and her three dogs, Marty, Harry and Phoebe.
Rod Emelle
Filmmaker and native New Orleanian, Rod Emelle has written for the Queen Latifah FOX sitcom Living Single. Rod then went on to write for the WB Network sitcom, For Your Love, where he ascended to the position of producer and took part in production of all 87 episodes. Rod has written, produced and directed a number short films, the first being Ghostwriter and the most recent What Wouldn't Jesus Do? under his own production banner, Groovciti Filmworks. This film was invited to film festivals throughout the United States, Europe and was a SHOWTIME Black Filmmaker Finalist. During this period Rod wrote for such TV shows as the sitcoms One On One, All of Us and Friday: The Animated Series, based on the film franchise of the same name. Rod also has done rewrite and punch-up work for screenwriters such as Mike Elliot (Like Mike, Brown Sugar). Rod has also written four feature scripts, 4 Years to Life, The Cookie Crumble, The Divine Orgasm and Stakes is High. Rod is prepping for his feature directorial debut with The Cookie Crumble.
Barry Floyd
Barry Floyd, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, always wanted to be a novelist. But then he discovered that novelists don't typically make a lot of money so he decided to become a screenwriter instead. He attended Temple University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Film and Media Arts and, upon graduating in 2004, moved to Los Angeles and worked as an intern at the Nickelodeon Movies development office on the Paramount lot. Hoping to find work on a set, he became a tour guide for Paramount until finding a job as a production assistant. Due to his ability to make various witty remarks while working as a production assistant on the set of the CW sit-com Girlfriends, Barry was given the opportunity to audition for a role that began his acting debut as the character Tee-Tee on The Game. Currently he is the head writer, and recurring actor, for the sketch comedy show PURPLE STUFF TV.
SHAWNELLE GIBBS
Shawnelle Gibbs is delighted to be part of the PSTV Crew. This media multi-hyphenate and Oakland, CA native has found a welcome refuge in the exceptionally twisted minds of the PSTV writer's room.
The award winning writer-director-producer is one half of the duo known as "The Gibbs Sisters." As co-creator of award winning comedy-animations Ravishing Raspberry, and Adopted by Aliens, and online properties Old Ladies Driving, and Diva Smackdown, she's no stranger to creating content designed to make people laugh out loud.
In addition to writing comedy, Shawnelle has produced television for Bravo, Lifetime, and NBC, most notably Bravo's Emmy Award-Winning Project Runway, and Top Chef Series. She is a San Francisco State Cinema School Grad, a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and has been a featured filmmaker on BET.com, UVC Magazine's "Black Women Who Rock in Comics" Issue, and Canada's G4 TV.
Shawnelle believes the key to a well-balanced life includes several gulps of Purple Stuff before bed.
HUDSON SMITH
Hudson Smith was born in Los Angeles, California where he resided until age 11, at which time he moved to St. Thomas US Virgin Islands. His mother's career in cultural box office, her love of film, and being a writer and published author introduced him to a lifetime of exposure to the arts, which influenced his career path. Hudson studied Film Production with a Minor in Acting at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It was at Howard University that Hudson met a talented young writer and director by the name of Brandon Broussard who cast him as a lead character in his festival award winning first film The Epicureans. Both passionate about their craft, the two have remained close friends over the years and have collaborated on several projects and now currently the highly anticipated, original, and most importantly hilarious PURPLE STUFF TV!!!
SHAWNEE GIBBS
Shawnee is a Writer, Director and Animator who's outlandish creations have been exposed to audiences online and off. The SF Bay Area native currently resides in Los Angeles where she's managed to keep her apartment's lights on contributing to television shows for MTV, Bravo, NBC and the Disney Channel. She is the co-creator of the animated web series' Old Ladies Driving and Adopted By Aliens and finds an immense amount of joy and belly laughs as a staff writer for PURPLE STUFF TV.
AARON CELIOUS
Aaron Celious is a predator; the filmmaking kind who writes, directs, produces and edits, as opposed to the kind Arnold Schwarzenegger battled in the 80s. Before embarking on his predatory endeavors, Aaron expressed his creativity through spoken word poetry. As a poet, Aaron performed across the country on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls and Sugar Ray and at Woodstock.
Aaron holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood screenwriting award, like fellow alumni Lawrence Kasdan and Arthur Miller. He's also a fellow of the Bill Cosby writing program at USC, and Grounlings theater alumna.
When Aaron is not filmmaking, he spends his time as a sociologist, consulting on select missions like the Human Genome project and the Metropolitan Transit Authority strategic restructuring plan.
Aaron speaks Spanish and English, the Spanish he learned studying in Mexico and Spain. He enjoys exploring the world and has traveled extensively through Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.
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