Melvin M. Moore

Melvin Madero Moore is a California licensed clinical psychologist who has produced and written for television, theatre, and radio. He began in television as a content specialist for Rebop, a children’s television series produced for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) during the 1980s; the series was awarded the ACT Award by Action for Children’s Television and the Silver Medal by the Twentieth International Film and Television Festival of New York.

Mr. Moore co-produced, Say Brother, a public affairs program, and Bubba, a pilot for a family drama series, both for WGBH-TV, Boston. As a television producer, he headed up two weekly sports programs, one for WGBH, another for the Boston ABC affiliate.

Mr. Moore’s interpretation of African American male-female relationships led to the creation of The Black Dyad, a series of theatrical vignettes that enjoyed a two-year run in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dyad was subsequently produced for television and aired on PBS; Mr. Moore was awarded an Emmy for his television adaptation.

Mr. Moore also earned the Ohio State Award for his adaptation of Blake or The Huts of America, a WBGH production that aired on National Public Radio (NPR). For his work on The Story of a People, an African American history radio series produced by Syndicate It, Inc., Mr. Moore earned the Award of Excellence by the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA). Mr. Moore’s writing credits also include a stint on the CBS soap opera, Another World.

Within the past several years Mr. Moore has written two unproduced screenplays for Jowharah Films and recently completed the screenplays, Isle Brevelle, Love, Interrupted, The Unraveling, and a television pilot, El Barro, a family drama, for George Rivera Productions.

Isle Brevelle is a historical drama set in Louisiana during the 1700s. It tells the true story of a slave woman who became the matriarch of the wealthiest family of free blacks in the United States by the early 1800s and the beginning of the American Civil War. Isle Brevelle was optioned twice by Symphony Pictures.

False Memory is a psychological thriller, a tale about a woman who confronts the horrors of her past as she struggles to unravel the mystery surrounding her sister’s violent death.

El Barro sets up a television series designed to focus on the personal struggles of each member of a Latino family residing in New York City; each program in the series would underscore the themes of love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.