Rasheed Newson

In 2008, Rasheed and T.J. Brady were hired as a television writing team to serve as staff writers on the drama series Lie to Me.^[10]

In 2020, Rasheed and Brady wrote pilot script to reboot the movie Finding Forrester into a television drama series for NBC.^[11]

In 2021, Rasheed co-developed Bel-Air along with Morgan Cooper and Malcolm Spellman.^[12] Bel-Air, a retooling of the comedy series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, premiered on Peacock on February 13, 2022.^[13][14] Rasheed and T.J. were executive producers and the showrunners for Season 1 of Bel-Air.^[15][13]

Rasheed worked as co-writer and co-producer on Army Wives;^[16] as co-writer and co-producer on The 100; as co-writer and co-supervising producers on Narcos;^[17] as co-writer and co-supervising producer on Animal Kingdom;^[18] as co-writer and co-executive producers Shooter; as co-writer and consulting producer on The Fix;^[19] and as co-writer and co-executive producers on Bel-Air.^[12]

Rasheed sold his debut novel, “My Government Means to Kill Me,”^[20] in 2021 to executive editor Nadxieli Nieto at Flatiron Books. Set in New York during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the book centered on a Black, gay protagonist.^[21] “My Government Means to Kill Me” was published on August 23, 2022.^[22] The novel garnered reviews from the Washington Post^[23] and New York Times.^[24] The Philadelphia Inquirer named “My Government Means to Kill Me” one of the best books of 2022.^[25]

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