Ed DuRante is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film Program where he was awarded the Graduate/Professional Opportunity Fellowship, NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where he received the ASCAP Foundation Yip Harburg Scholarship, Yale University and Deerfield Academy. His work has been produced by Talking Drum Theatre Co., the Vineyard Theatre, Theatre for the New City and Playwrights Horizons where he was an original member of the Black Playwrights Unit. His play “Homeboys” is part of the literary anthology Patchwork of Dreams. He directed the webseries “Wire” for Eyestudio.Net. and has written, produced and directed several short films including “America”, which was a Wasserman Award Finalist and the recipient of awards for Editing, Acting and Production Design. He taught lyric and playwriting at the Musical Theatre Writing Workshop at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East, he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Filmmaking and he recently directed the music video for Kiely Williams’ "Make Me a Drink." Presently, he is in post-production with his first feature film, the Black black comedy “JAKE GETS PAID” and is the producer of the "SEAN BELL FILM PROJECT."