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Hailing from Chicago, but having been in Hollywood since 2010, teen Actor-Director-Writer Dusan Brown is a 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program Winner (Arts), a 2020 National YoungArts Foundation Winner (Film) and his award-winning short film, Reece, which he wrote, directed, edited and colored, has been screened by over 10,000 viewers, won five (5) awards and earned 14 nominations at national/international film festivals. CAP, a short film in which Brown plays the lead, won the 2019 HBO Short Film Award at American Black Film Fest.

Brown can next be seen in the Netflix feature film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, alongside Oscar winner Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) and Emmy winner Glynn Turman. Two-time Tony winner, George C. Wolfe ("The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”) directs while Todd Black, Dany Wolf and Oscar winner Denzel Washington, produces. Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the August Wilson screenplay which follows Ma Rainey (Davis), the “Mother of the Blues,” and the tensions that boil over between her white agent, her producer and her bandmates while making a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927. In the film, Brown plays ‘Sylvester,’ Ma Rainey’s nephew who has a severe stutter. The film will be released towards the end of 2020.

Brown's past credits include the motion picture 42, series regular voicing lead characters on Disney's "The Lion Guard" and Nickelodeon's "Blaze and The Monster Machines," as well as guest-starring roles on such shows as “Community,” "Criminal Minds," and “The Big Bang Theory,” to name a few. On the theatre side, Brown also played the lead role of Young Simba in Disney's The Lion King on Broadway, North American Tour for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for his performance.

When not acting or making films, Brown loves spending time with his family, hanging out with his older brother Dante (MA, Lethal Weapon) and friends, writing screen plays, editing random videos, studying the filmmaking process, watching movies, playing video games and fishing. Upon graduating high school this year 2020, this honor student plans to matriculate Chapman University (Film & TV Production) with a concentration on Directing.

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