![]() ![]() Within two months of arriving, she was hired as a staff writer on “The Bernie Mac Show,” which led to writing and producing jobs on other series. In June 2004, she moved from New York to Los Angeles. Stints at GQ and Mademoiselle pulled her away from her original dreams of becoming a university professor for a year, she wrote copy for J. ![]() Agboh earned her master’s degree in English literature at Columbia University. When she wasn’t reading, she’d pull out her chess set and weave stories about the different pieces.Īfter graduating from Brown in 1998, Ms. Books about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and nuclear holocaust soon followed. Agboh became a voracious reader, plowing through her older brother’s college textbooks at the age of 8 and Shakespeare plays at 10. (A bit of one bullet is still lodged in his tongue, he says.) Just as important, as the Grammy Award-winning rap artist 50 Cent, he has earned plenty of cash himself. Jackson, after all, had dealt crack cocaine in South Jamaica, Queens, had nine rounds fired into his body at close range in 2000. So when she had questions about what it would be like to inhabit her main character’s world - the drugs, the violence, the insane riches - she often called on one of the show’s executive producers, Curtis Jackson, for guidance. Seated in a small office here at the Sunset Gower Studios, she unbuttoned her blazer to reveal a T-shirt that read “Black Nerds Unite.” Her TV credits include “The Good Wife” and “Beauty and the Beast,” and growing up, she said, she was a bookish child, obsessed with presidential politics and learning Yiddish. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), better known as Ghost, a husband and father who manages a swanky nightclub when he’s not stepping out on his beautiful wife, Tasha (Naturi Naughton), or running one of New York City’s most powerful drug empires.Īt first blush, little on the résumé of Courtney Kemp Agboh, the series creator and show runner, gives any indication that she’d be behind such a show. LOS ANGELES - In the first few episodes of “ Power,” a new series from Starz, one man is shot in the forehead another is beaten to a bloody pulp a third is doused with rubber cement and set ablaze. ![]()
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