Playwright and Producer - Leadership @ Under the Spell Productions, Inc.
Alongside Bring the Beat Back, recent plays include: This App is Not the Business, a cyberspace corporate America dramedy, and Life Hack: A Geek Boy Fever Dream. Derek is a 2016-2018 I Am Soul Resident Playwright with Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre in Harlem, and was an inaugural playwright with the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival.