Adam Davenport is an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 and stage director.

Author

At 15, Davenport wote a short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 titled Home which was published in the anthology Looking Inward, for which he was presented with an Award of Achievement by former President

President

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 George Bush, Sr.

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

 in 1999. He is also a two-time National NAACP ACT-SO Competition

Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics

The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a youth program of the NAACP that is “designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students.” The year-long program recognizes and awards young...

 gold medal winner for Colors of the Rainbow (2000) when he was a junior at Marian Catholic High School

Marian Catholic High School

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, and for Blood at the Root: The Legacy of Billy Holiday's Strange Fruit (2001) when a senior.

Film

Davenport's short film Midnight Son, which he made as his thesis project while an undergraduate at Yale University

Yale University

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, became the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Award

Panavision

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, a distinction shared by the first films of Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...

, Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight , Boogie Nights , Magnolia , Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood...

 and Jared Hess

Jared Hess

Jared Lawrence Hess is an American filmmaker known for his work Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre , which he co-wrote and directed with his wife, Jerusha Hess....

. Made by Davenport when he was twenty-one years old, the project was photographed by Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

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's cinematographer Tom Stern

Tom Stern (cinematographer)

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 and starred Academy Award winner Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

Melissa Chessington Leo , is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997...

, Jack Mulcahy

Jack Mulcahy

Jack Mulcahy is an American actor best known for playing the eldest brother Jack McMullen in Edward Burns' first film The Brothers McMullen . He also achieved notoriety in 2006 for starring and singing a jingle in a Snickers commercial opposite stage actor Jimonn Cole...

 and Tony nominee David Harbour

David Harbour

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.

In 2010, Davenport founded the production company First Lady Films with Leo. He will make his feature debut with a big screen adaptation of John Kaye

John Kaye (screenwriter)

John Kaye is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C...

's novel The Dead Circus

The Dead Circus

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.

Future Projects

Davenport is preparing to mount a stage revival of Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...

with an all-black cast starring Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard

Alfre Ette Woodard is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards , and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss...

. A production of the classic O'Neill play has only been staged once before with an all African-American cast, in 1982 with Earle Hyman

Earle Hyman

Earle Hyman is an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is known for his recurring role on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable.-Career:...

, Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun and the film American Gangster for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Early years:Dee was born Ruby...

, Thommie Blackwell and Peter Francis-James.

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