Biography
Michael Benjamin Adebisi Kehinde Adedeji was born in Delaware and spent the better part of 12 years there until in ’08 he moved to Kennesaw, Georgia for his formative years. His love of art began when he was a child, and he had taught himself how to draw. Later, with that skill under his belt, he had an affinity for singing, so he taught himself how to sing. In his sophomore year of high school, he joined Theatre Troup #7459 and a year later was inducted into the Thespian Honors Society.
After spending 3 years acting, he took an interest in writing and directing. He desires to be a jack of all trades, with multiple specializations. Naturally, he started with directing. He debuted a friend’s script for a 10-Minute Play Festival at Georgia Southern University. He successfully pulled 14 actors together to perform. Some actors made their stage debuts here. With acting, singing, drawing, and now directing under his belt. He was prepared for anything. He spent a full year and a half at Georgia Southern, majoring in Business and Theatre. Then he transferred to Georgia State University. There, he took his last theater class in African-American theater history. He met his mentor, Reverend Dr. Shirlene Holmes, an accomplished playwright who taught him how to write for the stage and eventually the screen. With his mentor’s guidance and his determined nature, he networked with many at Georgia State and built a rapport with their Creative Media Program.
Faced with an ultimatum at Georgia State, he presumptuously dropped his theater major and kept his business major for the administrative side of the entertainment industry. Michael, then, went on to meet many people who would help him get his start in screenwriting, like Executive Producer of The Walking Dead, Tom Luse. Whom he thanks for challenging him with the realities of screenwriting in the entertainment industry.
He later graduated in December of 2019 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and simultaneously applied for membership with the Organization of Black Screenwriters. In 2020, on Black History Month, he joined the organization and became a moderator for his very own Writer’s Group entitled ATLANTA FX. After a bizarre year, Michael then took on some side gigs as a writer and consulting producer on some collaborations. Previously, Michael worked on the other side of television in the advertising space with Ampersand TV. He found this role randomly scrolling through TikTok -well, actually, he was on TikTok, saw a forum for Black college grads and students to join this initiative to increase the presence of them in the Ad and marketing space, spent 2 weeks in a cohort and 6 weeks interviewing, and landed a role at this company. But it’s funny to say he got his opportunity by way of TikTok.
In his time at the Organization of Black Screenwriters, Michael found community with his writer’s group. He ventured off to search for other tribes. He discovered a plethora of communities where people, like him, are hungry and ready to get their foot in the door. He’s placed in the Mentorship Matters Semifinals, placed in SuperSpecial’s TRIBE, a quarterfinalist in the BlackBoyWrites fellowship, submitted to the Paramount Writers Program, Fox Incubator, and Warner Bros TV Fellowship, and more. He’s constantly taking chances and working on being the best writer he can be. While priming himself to be an executive in the entertainment industry.
Currently, Michael is producing a feature entitled Jackpot Summer with his team, Jordan Michael and Jeremiah Lewis, who the story is by and the writer, respectively. With Director Eric W. Schwager and producer Arturo Herrera. The film is fiscally sponsored through Eric Wang Schwager’s production company and Cinematography for Actors 501(c)(3). In another group, Michael serves as a co-producer of the Black Lens & Pens Writers Room, where he and Jacquetta Farrar, Livingston Steele, and Jacelyn P. Johnson all create bodies of work together.
In 2023, his mentor, The Reverend Dr. Shirlene Holmes, transitioned. Michael has taken the responsibility of maintaining the Estate of Dr. Holmes with the family and has worked with Georgia State University, the Dr. Holmes Tribute Committee, and several theater organizations to ensure her work and her name are lifted. Dr. Shirlene Holmes was, and still is, a visionary, a prophetess, a writer, an actress, and a professor of the arts. Theater has not been the same without her, but there is an opportunity to ensure her work is still being done.
Check out some of what he’s been up to:
- https://www.wabe.org/as-the-credits-roll-on-georgias-film-boom-community-takes-the-lead/
- https://canvasrebel.com/meet-michael-adedeji/
The World Rumble Company
In hopes of creating a banner that all his creations fall under, Michael created the World Rumble Company (dubbed WRCo.) in 2008. At 12, he thought, “How could this be real?” Well, anything is real when you first believe in it, then he began writing and drawing things that made up this company. And fast-forward to 12 years later, in June 2020, he filed for the LLC, and The World Rumble Company was born again. Here are all of the written projects that are set to launch or have launched under the company; these works are copyrighted:
- Halfrican
- The Legend of Aparna
- GRZLDA
- Más Azúcar
- Right, Righteous, and Torn Asunder
- Moira’s Interlude (Festival Submission)
- Oberlin Falls (Festival Submission)
- Festival of Blood
- Valconhonica
- Plastic Moon (Semifinalist in TRIBE)
- KoreATL (searching for co-writer)
- Shaft X
- The Saint
- Liminal
- Entropy
- The Harrow Tarot
- Infinite Feelings
- Nothing Like Water
- The God of Daddy Issues
- The Good Fight
- Room For Five
- The Many Wonderful
- The Three Kings
- En El Salvaje
- Eden
- GENEcestry
- World: Hell
- Infinite Feelings
- I Matter, You Matter, We Matter
- On the Count of Three
- Getting It Right
- Perhaps the World Ends Here
- Magnitude and Bond
- OVERFLOWers
- The Park Collection
Collaboration(s):
- Buried Riches
- The Poet and the Muse
- DonDon & Candy Man
- (P)roduction (A)ssistants
To request these scripts or loglines and one sheet, please contact mailto: michael.b.adedeji@gmail.com
World Rumble 