Omar Dzlieri is a writer/director from Philadelphia of Russian-Jewish descent.
In 2019, 20th Century FOX announced the development of "Adapted" - a half-hour sitcom created by Omar & co-writer Sarah Adina. A semi-biographical story about Omar's adolescent years after he was adopted a loving black family that lived next door after being raised by his Russian-Jewish immigrant single mother.
In 2021, Omar completed his first feature film 'MICerz' - from an original screenplay he wrote and directed.