Davis Arts Center Drama And Writing Instructor.
About
Sterling Anderson won a NAACP Image Award for “The Simple Life of Noah
Dearborn” and is a two-time nominee. He is also a winner of the Movieguide Faith &
Freedom award and a Christopher award for “The Gabby Douglas Story”.
Sterling is currently working on a limited-series about Booker T. Washington. This
comes on heels of an assignment for the HBO limited-series “Jack Johnson” starring
Mahershla Ali. He has written for some of the most popular network television shows,
such as “The Unit” on CBS, as well as NBC's “Medium” and “Heist”. His teleplay “The
Simple Life of Noah Dearborn”, written for CBS starring Sidney Poitier, received three
Emmy nominations and won an NAACP Image Award. Sterling's extensive resume
also includes screenplays written for Lifetime, Disney, HBO, TriStar Pictures and
Columbia Pictures.
A graduate in English from St. Mary's College, the accomplished writer also spent five
years teaching screenwriting as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic
Arts.
Sterling has written two books on writing: Go To Script: Screenwriting Tips From A
Pro and 15 Steps To Becoming A Successful (Artist) Screenwriter and a fiction book
called Five Seconds To Go.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sterling spent his early childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama,
before moving to Davis, California. His talents span far outside the world of writing.
Sterling has a fifth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and was an award-winning
winemaker in Napa Valley