Writer, Showrunner & Actor Asha Michelle Wilson Has Got Now And She’s Making The Most Of Her Moment

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showrunner and actress Asha Michelle Wilson. So much that Wilson’s mother didn’t allow her to watch TV during the week, knowing that if she let her daughter indulge, she wouldn’t get anything else done.

But Wilson was clever and found ways to work around her mother’s no-TV mandate. “I remember once sitting at the dining room table, behind me my parents were watching TV and above me, there was this picture on the wall,” Wilson recalls. “In the glass reflection I could see the TV, So I was like, ‘Ok, I’ll do my homework but I’ll sneakily watch.’ It didn’t matter what it was, I just really liked the stories that were being told.”By the time she was six years old, Wilson had decided she wanted to be a part of that world in one way or another.

While her career has provided her the opportunity to be involved in television in virtually every way, Wilson got her start writing. “I would go to my parents’ computer and write a little scene and work on it every few days, back when we had a computer room,” Wilson tells ESSENCE with a laugh.

Growing up in Southern Florida, she didn’t know anyone who worked in television so she pursued anything art related. Wilson went to writing and theater camps, wrote for her high school newspaper and yearbook.