Valerie C. Woods is the Emmy winning Co-Executive Producer/writer for the Disney+ series The Crossover (2023). She was also a Co-Executive Producer/writer for the AppleTV+ mini-series, The Big Cigar (May 2024), ) and Co-Executive Producer/writer on Season 2 of the Netflix drama series Sweet Magnolias (2021-22). She also worked in the same position for Season 4 (2018-2019) of the critically acclaimed television drama series Queen Sugar, airing on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Ms. Woods is in development, through her MCV Productions banner, on the television adaptation of A Cowboy to Remember, the Cowboys of California trilogy of novels by Rebekah Weatherspoon. Also in development is a television adaptation based on Wrapped in Rainbows – The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, the award-winning biography written by Valerie Boyd.
During Valerie’s 25+ years as a member of WGAw, her credits include Co-Executive Producer/Writer on the drama series, Any Day Now on Lifetime Network. Her episode “Family is Family” was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and Consulting Producer/Writer for the drama series, Soul Food on Showtime Network. Her career began after being awarded a Screenwriting Fellowship with Walt Disney Studios (1993).
As one of four instructors trained by acclaimed screenwriter author and teacher Syd Field, Valerie has served as Creative Director for Syd Field – The Art of Visual Storytelling platform. She also taught as Adjunct Faculty in the Stephens College Low-Residency MFA in TV and Screenwriting program (2016-2020). In Fall 2020, Valerie joined the University of Georgia as a Screenwriting Mentor in their Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Media Writing.
Representation for Valerie Woods:
Rain Management Group
Jacqueline Mosher and Rob Wolken
11162 La Grange Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90025
1.310.954.9520
Email: jmosher@rainla.com; rwolken@rainla.com
Leigh Leshner, Esq.
The Law Offices of Leigh Leshner
5632 Van Nuys Blvd., Suite 1499
Sherman Oaks, CA 91404
1.818.763.6300
Email: www.leigh@att.net
Click for a list of Valerie’s books. Also find links for a complete short story and story poem. Click to purchase the books from her Amazon author page. Also find links for the complete short story, Apparently, and the story poem, Poor Little Frauke.
Valerie’s independent press website – Books Endependent offers videos and information on our current and upcoming titles.
Learn more about Valerie’s screenwriting and producing projects. For more info visit the website Staged/Lit and coming soon MillChasVale Productions.
Had a great time with showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois and the writing team of The Big Cigar as Co- Executive Producer!
“Thrilled to be part of the writing team on this new Disney+ series as Co-Executive Producer!” From the best selling YA novel by Kwame Alexander
Katrin’s Chronicles is a young adult mystery novel whose narrator, thirteen-year-old Katrin DuBois, recounts the unusual adventures that began when she was a middle school kid of eleven and her elder sister, Jacqueléne Dyanne began to exhibit extra-ordinary powers of deduction; enhanced, some say, with psychic abilities. Taking place on the south side of Chicago in 1968, Katrin and J. Dyanne become the Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes of their neighborhood. This is book one of a trilogy.
Excerpt at: www.jdyanne.com
Available at: www.amazon.com
This contemporary holiday romp through a Los Angeles neighborhood tells the story of three wandering spirits hoping to transition to the light by New Year’s Eve. But it will only happen if each of them can cure a human heart of their Scrooge-like tendencies to become more loving and charitable citizens of the planet.
Available at: www.amazon.com
These engaging original, self-contained monologues feature contemporary characters in serious, comic and dramatic comic situations. Wonderful for a classroom work or a diverse night of theatre.…
Available at: www.samuelfrench.com
Rob Wolken
Jacqueline Mosher
11162 La Grange Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90025
1.310.954.9520
rwolken@rainla.com; jmosher@rainla.com
Ms. Leigh Leshner, ESQ
Law Offices of Leigh Leshner
4570 Van Nuys Blvd., Suite 438
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
1.818.763.6300
www.leighleshner.com
