KREATIVE COLLECTIVE

With over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry as a professional writer and storyteller, Crystal has penned over 19 sitcom episodes for Black Entertainment Television Network and Tyler Perry Studios. Currently, she has a Hallmark made-for-television movie in development. She has optioned an original one-hour television pilot to Warner Brothers and collaborated with such industry heavyweights as Will Packer (Straight Outta Compton, Bigger), Regina King (One Night in Miami), Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story), Tyler Perry (Precious) and Pasadena Playhouse/Television Director Sheldon Epps (Frasier, Girlfriends, Everybody Loves Raymond).

 

Crystal’s screenplay adaptation, Let the Church Say Amen, was directed by Academy Award winner Regina King and streamed on Netflix and aired on BET. She served as Head Writer and producer of an independently financed sitcom in Atlanta, GA and was a writer and co-producer on two Bounce Television Network series. As a writer, she enjoys creating and developing original television and film dramas, dramedies, and biopics that have heart.

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Some of Garrett's writing awards include being an ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship semi-finalist for one-hour, two-time Scriptapalooza first prize winner for half-hour, Issa Rae’s Color Creative TV top 3 finalist, and selected as Writer’s Digest top ten one-hour television writers.

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Crystal earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at the prestigious Old Globe Theatre’s Professional Actors Program, University of San Diego where she was one of seven students selected nationally, awarded a full academic scholarship. She has been a lead on the Broadway stage.

 

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Washington State University where she was a scholar-athlete. She is alumni of Garfield High School.

 

During her leisure time, you'll find her with family and friends at the beach, working out, enjoying flicks, or watching baseball. 

Anita M. Cal is a versatile award-winning film and TV storyteller who’s had the opportunity to write, produce, and line produce with a diverse range of talent and brands in the entertainment industry. Currently, she is utilizing her strong interviewing, writing, organizing, and story skills as a Consulting Producer for the 10-Days-In Watts documentary, Executive Produced/Directed by Emmy-nominated Director of LA Foodways, Raphael Sbarge. She has strong crew management, budgeting, on location production, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, sharpened by more than 15-years as a Producer/Line Producer.

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Anita recently penned a feature fight drama, UNDERCARD, purchased by Catalyst Studios, starring Wanda Sykes and Laurence Fishbourne (2023). A multi-faceted filmmaker, she’s managed crews and talent for shows with budgets ranging from $25,000 to $7 million, written and consulted for staffed comedy writers as well as penned scripts for TBS’s Tyler Perry's "House of Payne," "Meet The Browns," and  Colours TV’s “The Chin Chins.”

 

Additionally, Anita Co-Created, Produced, and Wrote the half-hour comedy Pilot Chico’z Kids, starring Chico Benymon (Half & Half) and Essence Atkins (Ambitions, First Wives Club). In 2019, Anita’s cop TV Pilot drama, Beyond the Badge, starring Karimah Westbrook (All-American) was a SeriesFest and DTLA Finalist selection, as well as an Emerging Drama Writer Caz Mathews Grant Winner.

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An ardent life-long learner, Anita earned a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the #1-ranked program at Pepperdine University. A lecturer and adjunct professor, she’s known to her NYU, Chapman University, and Syracuse University college students as “Dr. C.”

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She loves her hometown of Seattle and enjoys spending quality time with family and friends.