Film | Television | Stage

Kathleen
McGhee-Anderson

Writer, Producer

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

Writer & Producer | TV, Film & Stage

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson is an American television and film writer, producer, playwright and poet. Among the first African Americans to write for the screen, she is a graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, she has worked as a journalist, film editor and assistant professor of Film at Howard University. She resides in Venice, California and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

Kathleen
McGhee-Anderson

Film | Television | Stage
Writer, Producer

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson is an American television and film writer, producer, playwright and poet. Among the first African Americans to write for the screen, she is a graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, she has worked as a journalist, film editor and assistant professor of Film at Howard University. She resides in Venice, California and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

Press

Praise for Kathleen McGhee Andersons’ “Miss Maybelline’s Nocturnal Flights of Fancy”

Playwright, Poet, Producer

Vineyard Vine by Sissy Biggers

June 27, 2024

Publications

Spanning over decades, this is the remarkable, heartfelt memoir from Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, the last surviving member of The Four Tops. Amidst a backdrop of Detroit, I’ll Be There features revealing anecdotes from the group’s formation, their early days as backup singers for the likes of Jackie Wilson, and their years working with Berry Gordy at the legendary Motown Records. With era-defining number ones like ‘I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)’ and ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ came stardom and also a more enduring reward: the love of four men who become tighter than brothers. Together they comprise one of the most celebrated R&B groups of all time. But remarkable musical success didn’t spare Fakir the pain of marital distress, soured investment deals, struggles with sobriety and the sudden loss of his brothers, all of which he covers in this confessional, unmissable book.