Season One of “OWN” and Warner Horizon Scripted Television’s Peabody Award-winning series “David Makes Man” will be available to stream on HBO Max starting 16th July. It is produced by Page Fright, Outlier Society Productions, and Harpo Films in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
The one-hour lyrical drama created by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, known for creating “Moonlight.” McCraney serves as executive producer of the series alongside Dee Harris-Lawrence, who worked on “Shots Fired,” “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.”, and serves as showrunner. Mike Kelley and Melissa Loy, Michael B. Jordan, and Oprah Winfrey are also executively produced.
Akili McDowell stars in the title role of David alongside Alana Arenas, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert, Travis Coles, Cayden K. Williams, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, Jordan Bolger, with Phylicia Rashad. Tony winner and Emmy/Golden Globe nominee Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Elvis Nolasco, Gillian Williams, Juanita Jennings , Liza Colón-Zayas, Lindsey Blackwell, Lela Rochon, Teshi Thomas and Nick Creegan all appear in recurring roles.
In addition to winning the Peabody Award, the series' first season “David Makes Man” received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Drama, a prestigious Gotham Award nomination, and was named to several critics’ year-end “best of television” lists for 2019. It has been renewed for a second season by OWN.
Set in South Florida, the series tells the story of David, a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend and relied upon by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty. He must choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that may offer him a way out. The story is inspired by events in McCraney’s own life and explores childhood trauma and the power of imagination to survive.
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