Michael Ajakwe Jr. Net Worth is
$1.1 Million

Mini Biography

Created and raised in LA, Ajakwe graduated from Inglewood’s Morningside SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, where he received the Exceptional Service Honor. He gained an academic scholarship or grant to the College or university of Redlands, where he gained Bachelor’s levels in both British and Political Technology, and was called Most Outstanding Older of his graduating course. As students, Ajakwe paid his method though college employed in a cinema, along with covering information and sports tales for Redlands Mag, the Redlands Daily Information as well as the Riverside Press Organization. Since 1993, Ajakwe spent some time working in multiple entertainment mediums, including being a playwright, a tv writer, a director and a manufacturer. In theater, he’s caused renowned performers like Hill Harper, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Ted Lange, Phil Morris, Robert Ri’chard, Tommy Hicks, Tracee Ellis Ross, Artwork Evans, Gary Sturgis, Adam Pickens, Tatyana Ali, Marc Coppage, Estelle Harris, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Lee Garlington, Robert Pine, Shayla Rivera, Candace Parker, Gary Anthony Williams, Ralph Carter, Deneice Williams, Obba Babbatunde, Tony Prize champion Charles Dutton, Emmy Prize winners Glynn Turman and Niecy Nash, Golden World champion Debbie Allen, and Academy Honor winner Mo’Nique. As a Television and film article writer/maker, Ajakwe spent some time working with Martin Lawrence, Greg Kinnear, Sherman Helmsley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Kelly Rowland, Charles Barkley, Marc Curry, Tracy Morgan, Tia and Tamera Mowry, Kadeem Hardison, Mary Hart, Kelita Smith, Leeza Gibbons, Brandy, Diondre Whitfield, Ally Landry, Kelly Perine, Tim Reid, Tommy Davidson, Ernest Thomas, Richard Lawson, John Tesh, Steve Harvey, Steve Trevino, Valery Ortiz, Eve, Emmy winners Jackee Harry and Paul Winfield, and three period Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou. Like a live events display article writer, Ajakwe has written for Kimberly Elise, Anthony Anderson, Jason Alexander, Ben Stiller, Jo Marie Payton, L.A. Town Council Chief executive Eric Garcetti, previous Los Angeles Law enforcement Chief Bernard Recent Los Angeles Law enforcement Main Bernard Parks, NAACP Country wide Chief executive Benjamin Todd Jealous, as well as the NAACP Theater Honours (2004, 2006, 2008). Ajakwe in addition has developed Television and/or film tasks for Russell Simmons, Dr. Dre, Bret Ratner, Kim Areas, Reuben Cannon, Norman Howard (nephew to brothers Moe, Shemp and Curly Howard from the Three Stooges) Beverly Todd, Vidal Sassoon, ex-NBA great Kenny “The Aircraft” Smith, and Grammy champion Natalie Cole. Ajakwe has written and directed nine plays, and produced 16 which have been nominated for 29 NAACP Theatre Honours, winning five. Ajakwe is usually a two-time NAACP Theatre Award earning Playwright/Maker (Company Plan/ Ted Lange’s Four Queens, No Trump!), two-time NAACP Theatre Award nominated Movie director (UNLESS YOU Believe: A Like Story offering the tunes of Deniece Williams, BODY GESTURES, featuring the tracks of Patti LaBelle), an Emmy-award earning TV manufacturer (E!’s Chat Soup), an award-winning filmmaker (Happy Wedding anniversary, Punk!), a Web-series originator (AjakweTV.com & AjakweTV.com/portable), and creator of the LA Web Series Celebration. In 2000, the discharge of Company Plan produced Ajakwe the initial African-American to truly have a play posted in the 21st Hundred years. In 2001, South Central Tales: Two times or Nothin’, The Trip, Happy Wedding anniversary Punk! – a assortment of three acclaimed one-act takes on – was released. He’s created for and/or created Television shows like Martin, Spirit Meals, The Parkers, Moesha, Between Brothers, The Brothers Garcia, CREATED TO Last, Sister Sister, Entertainment Tonight, Speak Soup, Steve Harvey’s BIG STYLE, Eve, T.D. Jakes’ One Like (aka Church People), Like That Lady and Unsung. He’s marketed Television pilots to Paramount Television (THE NEXT Family members), Warner Bros. Television (Alley Felines), and LATV/American Latino Syndication (Trevino). In 2002, Rat Entertainment (Bret Ratner) and Artisan Images hired Ajakwe to create his first studio room feature film– the biopic Crip. He’s also created feature movies on Major Group Baseball free company icon Curt Overflow, NBA great John Lucas, and previous Washington Redskins participant Doug Williams, the just Dark quarterback to earn the Super Dish. From 2000-2003 and in ’09 2009, he served as Television Teacher for the Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship in the University of Southern California, sponsored by Drs. Expenses and Camille Cosby. Cosby Fellows he mentored in this program possess gone to create for shows such as for example Girlfriends, PRIVATE, The Division, MY PARTNER & Children, The Proud Family members, ER, The Area, Eve, Little Expenses, Kingpin, Lincoln Heights, Undercovers and Home of Lies. In 2003, Ajakwe wrote an essay for the energy & Respect section from the best-selling anthology Souls Of My Brothers. Later on that calendar year he, Jamie Foxx Present and Appreciate That Girl originator, Bentley Kyle Evans, and renowned celebrity, choreographer and filmmaker Debbie Allen, journeyed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to build up the sitcom, Journal Feliz (THE GOOD THING), for Picante Entertainment. In 2005, Ajakwe co-created another sitcom, Mano A Mano (Sibling To Sibling) for Picante that ran on Brazilian tv for a whole season featuring among the stars from the Brazilian cinema masterpiece Town of God. In 2004, Picante and Ajakwe co-produced Rocket Technology & Salsa: The Shayla Rivera Tale in the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood. The sold-out, one-woman display in regards to a Puerto Rican rocket scientist who quit doing work for NASA to become comic was co-written by Ajakwe and Rivera, directed by Debbie Allen, and nominated for just two NAACP Theatre Awards. In 2002, Ajakwe wrote, directed and co-produced (with Kosmond Russell, Ian Foxx, Wayne Burkes and Lynne Conner) You’re All I HAVE TO MANAGE: The Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell Like Tale that starred William L. Johnson and Prince protégé Ashley Ta’Mar Davis in the name roles and seduced everyone from LA Lakers star Norm Nixon to Britney Spears and her family members. Ajakwe next composed, directed and created UNLESS YOU Believe: A Like Tale (Featuring the Music of Deniece Williams) that starred ex-Fresh Prince of Bel-Air regular Tatyana Ali. Ajakwe co-produced the musical with iconic songbird Deniece Williams herself, the play received 8 NAACP Movie theater Prize Nominations (including Greatest Director), earning for Greatest Musical Movie director (Scott Allen). Next arrived BODY GESTURES (Featuring the Tracks of Patti LaBelle). Originally stated in LA in 2005, it later on ran in the 1800-chair Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. in 2006. It received seveb NAACP Theatre Honor Nominations (including Greatest Director), winning once again for Greatest Musical Movie director (Matilda Haywood) and Greatest Choreographer (Madonna Grimes). In 2007, Ajakwe modified his one-act play Happy Wedding anniversary, Punk! right into a brief film that he also created and directed. In only its second film celebration, the 23-minute courtroom play about black-on-black criminal offense gained the Jury Award and Audience Prize for Best Brief Film on the Mid-Atlantic Dark Film Celebration in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2008, Ajakwe was invited to Africa for three weeks to instruct screenwriting workshops to Nigerian filmmakers from the Nigerian Film & Video Censor Panel as well as the Writers Guild of Nigeria. Ajakwe came back to America and was commissioned by an unbiased production company to create the noir thriller FORGET ABOUT Bloodshed – an unproduced film with Taraji P. Henson mounted on star in. Ajakwe shut out 2008 having a Beacon of Light Honor from the town of Inglewood, California-the city where he went to school as a kid, within its Centennial special event. The additional two honorees had been Oscar-nominated movie director John Singleton and famous gospel duo Mary Mary. In ’09 2009, Ajakwe co-produced What Would Jimi Carry out? in the Stage 52 Playhouse. The crowd-pleasing one-act compiled by Television drama article writer Felicia Henderson (Spirit Meals) starred “Girlfriend’s” Tracey Ellis Ross, and was went to by the renowned Diana Ross herself. It appreciated a sold-out 6-week LA summer run. Also in ’09 2009, Ajakwe was a punch up writer in Season 1 of the Martin Lawrence/Bentley Evans/Jeff Franklin/Raphael Saadiq produced sitcom Like That Female starring Tatyana Ali and Phil Morris in it One cable route. Ajakwe was also a article writer on Period 1 of the T.D. Jakes created sitcom One Like (aka Church People) starring Sherman Hemsley, Carl Payne, Chico Benymon, Marc Curry, Drew Sidora, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kym Whitley, Pal Lewis, Keith Robinson, and Jackee. To summarize 2009, Ajakwe jumped mind first in to the Internet simply by constructing his own Internet route and creating a genuine Internet series. He published, produced and aimed Who, a genuine 12-episode humor series about two dark women who fulfill each day for lunch time and discuss people. Each bout of Who was place online at Ajakwetv.com and may become watched for $1. The series can be available for observing on mobile systems such as notebooks as well as on mobile phones at Ajakwetv.com/cell. In March 2010, Ajakwe produced history when he started the world’s initial all-Web series festival using the inaugural start of the LA Web Series Festival (www.lawebfest.com). In 2011, Ajakwe helped begin (along with founders Jean Michel Albert and Stephane Rizzo) The Marseille Webfes, Europe’s initial in support of all-Web series celebration that occurs every Oct in the south of France (www.marseillewebfest.com). On the inaugural event, Ajakwe was feted using a Medal to the town from Marseille Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. This year 2010, Ajakwe was Program Director for the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Dark Film Festival in Norfolk, Virginia alongside previous Spike Lee producer Monty Ross. In 2011, he was honored from the exclusive American Medical & Educational Solutions in Africa Basis. This year 2010, he also served as writer/producer within the three-time NAACP Picture award-winning music documentary series Unsung, airing about TV One, having produced one-hour life profiles about great pop-soul soprano Deniece Williams, famous sideman-turned-solo star Ray Parker Jr., and important rock-funk icon Sly Rock of Sly & The Family members Stone. In 2013, Ajakwe covered production on “Trophy Wife’, a genuine six-episode tv comedy series he created, wrote, directed and produced predicated on his Internet series Who… (Ajakwetv.com). Ajakwe continues to be featured in an array of newspapers, magazines and books, included in this: Dark Comedians on Dark Humor by Darryl Littleton (Applause Books, 2010), The Script-Selling Video game by Kathie Fong Yoneda: 2nd Model (Michael Weise Productions, 2010), African-Americans in Tv: Behind The Moments by Greg Adamo (Peter Lang Posting, 2010), and today Write! Screenwriting by Sherry Ellis and Laurie Lamson (Tarcher/Penguin Books, 2011). Additionally, Ajakwe’s writings are available in the reserve Souls of My Brothers by Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy (Plume Books, 2003), Excellent Stage Monologs & Moments from the ’90s by Steven H. Gale (Merriweather Posting, 2000), South Central Tales: Dual or Nothin’, The Trip, Happy Wedding anniversary Punk! (Pipedream, 2001); Organization Plan: The Trend Behind The Face mask (Pipedream, 2000), THE VERY BEST Stage Moments 1996 (Smith & Krause), THE VERY BEST Men’s Stage Monologues 1996 (Smith & Krause), THE VERY BEST Men’s Stage Monologues 1995 (Smith & Krause), and THE VERY BEST Women’s Stage Monologues 1995.

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