MEET OUR 2026

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NAACP Image Award nominated writer Camille Tucker hails from Compton, CA, where both her father and brother formerly served as mayor. Growing up in Compton and attending a PWI in Palos Verdes often caused her to feel like she was straddling two worlds. Yet, as she began to write, she found that her unique struggles were what gave her her voice.

Camille is the co-writer of Lifetime’s critically acclaimed biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, which was nominated for five NAACP Image Awards, including outstanding writing, and has had 13MM viewers to date. It also won the Satellite, African American Critics Association and Gracie Allen awards for Best Television Movie.

Camille is passionate about writing stories centered around female and BIPOC characters in elevated worlds. She has sold scripts to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV and Disney and worked with producers Robert De Niro, Marc Platt, Debra Chase and the late John Singleton, who was a mentor and friend.

A Sundance alum, Camille has directed nine short films and her short film, Cellular, won Best Short Narrative Film at the Roxbury International Film Festival.

In 2021, Camille was named a Sony Pictures TV Diverse Writer Program fellow; in 2019, she was a finalist and the drama alternate in the prestigious Disney | ABC TV Writing Fellowship; and in 2018, she was a fellow in the Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Workshop. She has also been a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist and two-time Sundance Writers Lab semi-finalist.

With an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University, an MA in theology and film from Fuller Seminary, and a BA in Creative Writing from UCLA, Camille was an Associate Professor and director of the writing for film and television concentration at Biola University for seven years.

Currently, Camille is a Writer/EP on the Gladys Knight biopic with Cineflix Studios. She has recently written a biopic for LeBron James's Springhill and Disney+ and a one-hour psychological crime drama for 50 Cent's G-Unit and the STARZ network.

She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and repped by Entertainment 360. Specialty dish: dirty South gumbo.
Fun fact: she used to rap under the moniker DJ Cammy Cam. Be nice and she might spit you a rhyme.

"I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write." ~ Greta Gerwig

Camille Tucker