Reggie Rock Bythewood

Bythewood made his feature film directorial debut on the acclaimed indie flick, "Dancing in September" which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by HBO and became an HBO original movie. Bythewood has also directed, "Biker Boyz," the documentary, "Daddy's Girl" (starring Laila Ali), the 30 For 30 documentary, "One Night in Vegas" and "Gun Hill" the two-hour pilot which he won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for. He co-created the ten-hour event series "Shots Fired" with Gina Prince-Bythewood and directed the season one finale starring Sanaa Lathan, Richard Dreyfuss, Helen Hunt and Stephan James.

With the 2007 Writer's Strike looming, Bythewood was hired to do the rewrite for Notorious. He completed several drafts and the film was green lit. When the strike ended, Bythewood went back to the project to do more revisions and stayed on until the film wrapped. He was given written by credit along with the film's initial writer, Cheo Hodari Coker.

In 1990, Bythewood was offered a role in the soap opera "One Life To Live." However, he turned down the offer and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. He became one of the first members of Walt Disney's prestigious Writers Fellowship Program. From there, he was hired as a writer on the hit NBC comedy series, "A Different World" where he met his future wife, Gina Prince-Bythewood. He went on to write and produce Dick Wolf's drama series, "New York Undercover." He also did production rewrites for action films produced by Joel Silver. After attending the Million Man March, Bythewood wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee's indie film, "Get on the Bus." Bythewood was also one of the film's investors.

Reggie Rock Bythewood (born July 7, 1965) is an American film director, writer, actor, and producer.