Felicia Pride is a writer, producer, director, and founder whose nearly twenty-five-year career in media and entertainment has been devoted to telling resonant stories of the often overlooked, building creative worlds, and finding meaningful ways to connect those stories with audiences.

She is currently the Creator, Showrunner, and Executive Producer of the highly anticipated A Different World sequel, premiering on Netflix in September. Her television work also includes Bel-Air, Grey’s Anatomy, and Queen Sugar. Across her career, Felicia has developed a body of work that centers rich, nuanced characters and expands the kinds of stories—and people—we get to see on screen.

In film, Felicia wrote and executive produced Really Love, which became a Top Ten Movie on Netflix and has features in development at Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. As a director, Felicia gravitates toward intimate, emotionally honest storytelling. Her directorial debut, tender, is an award-winning short film that aired on STARZ. She followed it with Look Back at It, a short that won the Audience Award at the BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize.

Felicia is also the founder of HONEY CHILE, an independent media and production company created to illuminate the lives, power, and influence of Black women 40+. Through original film, television, audio, editorial, book projects, and experiences, HONEY CHILE has built an ecosystem of stories and community around an audience that has been both culturally influential and historically underserved.

She is also the host of HONEY CHILE’s recently launched podcast It’s Good Over Here, a follow-up to Chile, Please, which earned two NAACP Image Award nominations.

Long before she began writing for the screen, Felicia and has recently returned to the form, penning Come Close, a later-in-life romance novella about love, longing, and second chances, as well as The Creative Comeback Workbook, created to help storytellers reconnect with their creativity and build a sustainable creative practice. Both published by HONEY CHILE. Her work as an author reflects the same interests that run throughout her screen work: reinvention, desire, possibility, and what becomes available when we give ourselves permission to want more.

Felicia’s perspective as a creator is informed by an unusually expansive career across media and entertainment. Before writing for television and film, she worked across marketing, distribution, impact, editorial, and education—helping social justice organizations raise millions for media projects and helping hundreds of filmmakers develop strategies for getting their work into the world.

That range has earned her a reputation as a creative “Swiss Army knife,” but the heart of Felicia’s work has remained the same: telling stories that make people feel seen, understood, moved, and a little more connected to themselves and each other.