Beverly “Bev” Chukwu is a Nigerian American writer, director, and script consultant. Her projects have screened at the Women in Horror Film Festival, Cine Las Americas, AGLIFF, and more. Bev’s screenplay, PRINCE OF LAVENDALE STREET, was the feature winner in the 2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and her video essay “Sometimes Black” is now used as educational material at the University of Texas at Austin. She has spent over seven years working in various mental health arenas and nearly a year providing behavior therapy to neurodivergent youth and adults. Bev has received fellowships from the Black List x WIF Episodic Lab, Google’s YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Program, and the James A. Michener Center for Writers, where she also received an MFA in screenwriting and fiction.

Since 2022, Bev has served as a Development Executive for Pipeline Media, reading and elevating the work of writers worldwide. She continues to advocate for filmmakers as EA to the Head of Film and Creative Media at the Austin Film Society and through her relationships teaching for the nationally acclaimed Torch Literary Arts, the Writers League of Texas, Austin Bat Cave, and other local non-profits.

Her latest project “Princess” received financial support from YouTube Originals and will be presented as a proof of concept short for her sci-fi horror series, BLINDSPOTS. She served as writer and director on the project.