Ina Parker

Works In Progress (originally titled Open Book) is a new weekly television series about books and culture created and hosted by Ina Howard Parker.

Each week, Works In Progress focuses on a single community to introduce you to the writers and other storytellers-- —musicians, actors, musicians and filmmakers-- —whose work reminds us we'’re all connected through the stories we have to tell.

In the premiere episode, we visited Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a rich cultural heritage, to meet some of the writers and artists who live there including former child soldier Ishmael Beah, award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, legendary jazz musician Bill Lee Jr., Walt Whitman devotee Daryl Blaine Ford, creative genius Carl Hancock Rux, Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, singer Nucomme, and star of stage and screen, actor Jeffrey Wright who reads from Walt Whitman.

CREDITS:
Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Ina Howard Parker
Executive Producer: Rod Alleyne
Director of Photography: Francisco Aliwalas

CONTACT: ina [at] representinc.com