2013 Conference Speakers

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, C’72

Television/Film Writer and Producer

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, C'72, who began her career as a film editor, has written episodes for “Little House on The Prairie,” “Charles in Charge,” and “The Cosby Show,” among others. Her dramatic television credits include “Touched by An Angel,” “South Central,” and “Any Day Now.” McGhee-Anderson, has also written feature films for Columbia Pictures, Paramount Motion Pictures, Bruckheimer Films, and Twentieth Century Fox Films. Her film, “Sunset Park,” was produced by Jersey Films/Sony, and the movie “The Color of Courage,” dealing with her grandparent’s landmark Supreme Court housing battle was produced by Studios USA. She has developed and sold long-form, mini-series, and pilots to NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, USA, Showtime and PBS. Her plays, “Jump at the Sun” and “Mothers” (commissioned by Bill Cosby), were produced by LA Theater Works, broadcast on National Public Radio and taught in secondary schools across the country. McGhee-Anderson has received numerous awards, nominations, and grants and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Spelman College, her alma mater, for a career spanning three decades in the entertainment industry as a writer, producer and playwright. She is currently at work on a children’s musical, “The Princess of 57th Street.”