Jamal Joseph Biography

Eddie Joseph is a film professor at Columbia University and former chair of their Graduate Film Program as well as a recent Oscar nominee he tells the remarkable story of his transformation in Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention. He is the executive artistic director of the New Heritage Theater in Harlem and cofounder and executive artistic director of IMPACT Repertory Theater which has mentored over one thousand Harlem teens providing an artistic voice for their lives and a constructive channel for social activism. After his first term in prison he became one of the youngest spokespeople and leaders of the Panthers’ New York Chapter. He joined the revolutionary underground became an FBI fugitive and landed in prison again at Leavenworth this time for harboring a fugitive. There Joseph not only earned his degrees and wrote several plays but he also started a theater group that united prisoners previously segregated along racial lines.

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