Sundi Loftywriter/producer

Sundi Lofty is a writer and producer with ten years combined experience in television, film, and theater production. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English and a Master of Teaching degree, she began her career in New York City as the Market Diversity Coordinator for the Independent Feature Project East, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of artists working in independent film. She went on to become a Marketing Associate for Urbanworld Films where she coordinated marketing campaigns for independent films given theatrical releases.

Eventually Sundi would pursue her own passion for writing. She worked with notable clients such as The Terri Williams (Public Relations) Agency, ghost writing press releases, editorials, biographies, and letters for Al Sharpton, Charlie Ward, and Johnnie Cochran. She collaborated with Two Dollars and A Dream Productions, partnering with documentary Producer Sam Pollard (Eyes on the Prize and Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed) to develop treatments for feature projects, including Reckoning, a modern-day screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Drawing on her roots in collegiate and community theater, she developed the stage production of A Tribute to Marvin Gaye: Celebrating the Sanctified Side of a Legend with award-winning biographer David Ritz (Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye). Sundi also wrote three original stage plays including Manifest, All These Things and Love Me Through It. Excerpts of Love Me Through It, a play about one community’s struggle with AIDS, have been reproduced for the Monorail Monologue Slam Festival, as well as for the New York Public Library. The play has been adapted for screen and is currently in negotiations for use by the Balm in Gilead, a nonprofit organization that empowers communities of faith across the country to address HIV and AIDS.

Sundi continued to hone her writing skills at New York University where she received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Since 2006, she’s written and produced for various television clients including Filtered Water Productions, Dark Matter Entertainment, Ascension Media Group and principal client TV One, a lifestyle and entertainment network for African American adults. Her work includes numerous on-air promos and interstitials as well as one-hour television specials such as the NAACP Image Award winning show, In Conversation: The Michelle Obama Interview, hosted by political correspondent Roland Martin. Other television specials include Real Estate Realities: When the Boom Goes Bust, hosted by Washington Post financial columnist Michelle Singletary, Living Single: The Reunion Show, and TV One On One: Fifth Anniversary Show.

Sundi currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.