How to Create a Show About a Grieving Black Female P.I. &#;Without Apologizing for Being Bold&#;
Diarra Kilpatrick is the consummate multihyphenate: creator, co-writer and star of the BET+ noir dramedy Diarra From Detroit, which mines real elements of her life to tell a classic mystery tale that also deals with grief. “I wanted to tell a story about a Black private investigator for a long time. I was talking to my friend’s mom at a party, and she was saying that she had worked as a P.I. in Chicago, and I thought that was so weird, because this woman was such a mom, in the best way, who could get answers, even more so than a guy in a fedora.”
This wasn’t Kilpatrick’s first time playing with the mystery genre: She rose to showbiz prominence after creating the ABC web series American Koko, a satire dipping into the detective landscape that won her the Emmy for performance by an actress in a shortform series. But Kilpatrick’s love of theatrics began far earlier than that, back in Detroit, where “I was the multihyphenate at 5, because I was operating the Fisher-Price thing to make music in my room, I was starring in the one-woman
Diarra, a native Detroiter is an Emmy nominated actress, writer and producer. She studied drama at New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Diarra is the creator and star of American Koko, an ABC digital original series, executive produced by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon (JuVee Productions). The seriesearned her an Emmy nomination for; Outstanding Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series, Short Form. She was also awarded "Best Web Series" at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in New York City. The original abcdigital series; American Koko has been featured as a web series standout by Essence, Ebony Magazine, , The Tangled Web We Watch, and The Cut.
Diarra's first love is theater. Her one woman show; The Devil is Beating His Wife, was nominated for an NAACP Theater Award for "Best Playwright". For her work as "Oya" in Tarell Alvin McCraney'sIn the Red and Brown Water, Diarra received the LA Weekly and NAACP Theater Award for "Best Leading Actress in a Drama" in Other accolades for her work i
Like Comedic Mysteries? &#;Diarra from Detroit&#; Is Your Next Binge
At a time when networks are loudly hunting for the next &#;second-screen series&#; (meaning a show you watch while you scroll on your phone), &#;Diarra from Detroit&#; is a bracing blast from the not-so-distant past when TV wasn&#;t just background noise.
&#;For me, TV can be a really sacred time,&#; series creator/showrunner/star Diarra Kilpatrick told IndieWire. &#;TV watching time can be like a really sweet and sacred time. And so I did want to make something where each episode felt like a full meal. That was intentional from the very beginning. You know when you have half of a piece of key lime pie left in the refrigerator and all day, you&#;re like, &#;Oh my God, I&#;m going to go home and eat the other half of that key lime pie with some peppermint tea&#;? It gets you through the day, you know? And I really like that about television, that you could have a whole little meal waiting for you at home every week.&#;
&#;Diarra from Detroit&#; is more than just a full meal — the comedic mystery noir is a smorgasbord of delights, all filtered through the singular vision of its creator. Diarra Brickland
'Diarra From Detroit,' starring half sister of Kwame Kilpatrick, coming this year to BET+
Get ready for “Diarra From Detroit,” a new streaming series set to arrive later this year on BET+.
It's a suspenseful comedy about a "divorcing schoolteacher with an acerbic sense of humor who refuses to believe she has been ghosted by her rebound Tinder date,” according to Tuesday's announcement. She then begins a quest to find the man, and it draws her into a a "decades-old mystery involving the Detroit underworld.”
Kenya Barris, the creator of ABC’s “black-ish, is an executive producer of the series.
The title comes from its star, writer and executive producer Diarra Kilpatrick, a real-life Diarra from Detroit. The series is part of an overall deal she signed with BET network's BET Studios division.
Kilpatrick started acting as a young girl in Detroit in school productions and with Meadow Brook Theatre. She was just 12 when she starred in the Mosaic Youth Theatre production of “Crossing 8 Mile,” an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors.”
She studied drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has worked in theater and appeared on numerous TV ser
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