Felicia D. Henderson

Felicia D. Henderson is the creator of Showtime’s Emmy Award nominated series “Soul Food”, television’s first multi-season, successful drama to feature an African American cast. In 2018, through her production company, WaterWalk Entertainment, Inc., she signed a development deal with 20th Century Fox to write, produce and direct television dramas and comedies. She recently completed consulting producer duties on “Next”, an “FBI” cyber-crime drama premiering on Fox. Currently, she is the showrunner on Netflix’s first season of “First Kill” and is developing a series for MGM and 20th  TV. Felicia co-created and executive produced “The Quad”, a one-hour drama for BET Networks which starred Tony Award-winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The series was named one of the “Top 15 Shows to Watch” by The New York Times in 2017. She also co- executive produced the Netflix adaptation of Marvel’s “The Punisher”, which debuted in Fall 2017. The successful writer-director-producer also executive produced “Single Ladies” and “Reed Between the Lines” for BET Networks. She has written and co-executive produced such high- profile shows as “Gossip Girl”, “Fringe” and “Everybody Hates Chris”. Additional credits include, “Sister Sister”, “Moesha”, “Family Matters”, and “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”.

Continually in pursuit of knowledge, after earning B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from UCLA, she recently earned a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. Her research interests include culture, class, race, and gender issues in television writers’ rooms, political economics of the 2007 WGA strike, and the “othering” of single women in the media. She has been published in some of the most prestigious academic journals in her field.

Although Felicia’s roots are Mississippi southern, she was born and raised in Pasadena, CA, where she currently resides with Muffin, her four-legged human.