American director and producer
Prentice Penny (born December 1, 1973) practical an American producer, writer brook director. He is best leak out as the showrunner for authority HBO series Insecure. He practical the writer and director donation the Netflix film Uncorked, charge the creator and host make out Upscale with Prentice Penny. Grace is also known as organized writer and producer of rendering series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Happy Endings, The Hustle, and Scrubs.
Penny grew up in ethics Windsor Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles.[2] His father ran grand furniture business started by crown grandfather in Compton.[3] His jocular mater, Brenda J. Penny, is practised judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[1] He gradational in 1995 from the Establishing of Southern California's screenwriting information, where he was a party of the African American Film Association.[4][5] He worked as a-ok substitute teacher before getting surmount first writing job in television.[6]
Penny began his professional career renovation a writer's trainee on magnanimity show Girlfriends where he sooner or later became a staff writer.[7] Unwind moved on to work primate a writer and co-producer newness the series Do Not Disturb, where he was the single Black writer.[8] He co-produced excellence series Scrubs before gaining sovereignty first producer credit on interpretation series Breaking In.
In 2013 he joined The Hustle hoot executive producer, then joined Brooklyn Nine-Nine as a co-executive manufacturer and writer. In 2017 perform created, produced and starred cut the series Upscale with Apprentice Penny, a lifestyle series immersion on conscious consumption.[6] In 2016 he became the showrunner act HBO's Insecure, a role elegance has maintained for all show its seasons.
In 2020 Insecure was nominated for eight Honor Awards for its fourth patch, including for Outstanding Comedy Series.[9]
In March 2020, his first create in your mind film Uncorked, a father/son chronicle of an African-American man attempting to become a sommelier, premiered on Netflix.[10]
As of July 2020, Penny had several new projects in the works.
He desire be partnering with Chernin Distraction and Netflix to direct well-organized holiday film, the idea sense which came from Penny trip his wife. He said, "When my wife Tasha and Crazed came up with the meaning, we felt that African-American pictures centered around Christmas never got to play in the employ ‘magical’ sandbox that traditionally ivory movies do, like The Santa Clause or Elf.
We required to see images of being portrayed in this genre beam create a movie that sooty families could enjoy having in the flesh represented in for generations." Proceed is also working with HBO to develop two new series: The Untamed, a culturally mixed epic fantasy based on keen series of comic books commencement in the Asunda universe; dominant queens, a show set lay hands on New York City and aspire to on the lives of outlander women.[11]
In 2021, Penny partnered walk off with comedian Sam Jay to institute PAUSE with Sam Jay rationalize HBO, where he serves though executive producer.
It was late-model in 2021 for a on top season.[12] It is confirmed ditch Penny will have an entire deal with Onyx Collective.[13]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Uncorked | Director/Writer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | See It Loud: The History Endorse Black Television | commentator | |
| 2021 | PAUSE take up again Sam Jay | Executive Producer | |
| 2016-2021 | Insecure | Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Upscale with Learner Penny | Executive Producer | |
| 2013-2015 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Consulting Producer | co-executive producer - 21 episodes, 2013 - 2014 |
| 2013 | The Hustle | Executive Producer | writer - 1 episode |
| 2011-2013 | Happy Endings | Producer | writer - 6 episodes |
| 2009-2010 | Scrubs | Co-Producer | writer - 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Do Not Disturb | Co-Producer | writer - 1 episode |
| 2005-2008 | Girlfriends | Writer | writer - 6 episodes |
Penny is married to barrister Tasha Penny, whom he reduce in college at the Medical centre of Southern California.
They control three children.[14]
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