Tamika lamison biography of mahatma

Tamika is a Virginia native who graduated from The American University with a BA in Performing Arts after switching her major from Journalism. There she directed her first play for the stage, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s “The Slave.”

While living in New York she wrote her first screenplay, The Jar By the Door which was a Sundance Finalist and won several awards including the Gordon Parks Indie Film Award and 10k.

She then attended the New York Film Academy to learn filmmaking and graduated having made her first short film.

After expanding her filmmaking knowledge she moved to Los Angeles and won several Fellowships and Awards in Writing and Directing including the ABC/Walt Disney Fellowship in Screenwriting for Memoirs of A Virgin Whore, The Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller (Cosby) Fellowship, the CBS Director’s Initiative and AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women Fellowship in which she wrote, directed and produced the multi-award winning short film, HOPE which currently a