J. Gabriel Ware
J. Gabriel Ware is a journalist and a TV news producer from Detroit. He worked at ABC News, where he field produced for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir. He covered the George Floyd protests, the Harvey Weinstein trial in New York, and he field-produced the network’s first live report on COVID-19.
As a TV writer, he uses his journalism experiences, life growing up in the ‘hood, and his time navigating academia as an adjunct instructor as springboards to develop dramedy series. His scripts have placed in many competitions, including Third Prize in the CineStory Fellowship Contest and a finalist in the ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition.
J. Gabriel has worked as a PA and Boom Operator on independent film and TV sets in Detroit. He works as a script reader, screener, and copy editor for the Austin Film Festival.
Real Savages
Half-hour | Dramedy
In Detroit, a single mother's plan to lead her smart but impressionable 10-year-old son to become the first in the family to go to college faces complications when her oldest son returns home from prison.
Close to Home
One-hour | Drama
When the mayor of a Southern California city passes a law criminalizing homelessness, a former public school teacher living out of her station wagon is roped into a feud among the mayor, anti-homeless activists, and the community's richest residents as she struggles to secure permanent housing to regain custody of her daughter.