A Black Panther in the Great White North

Darren Anthony is a playwright and screenwriter based in Toronto, Canada. His first critically acclaimed play, Secrets of a Black Boy, launched with a sold-out run at the Toronto Music Hall. After touring around the United States, its final run was presented on the main stage at Theatre Passe Muraille. Anthony won the 2019 Telefilm Canada New Voices Award, in partnership with the Toronto Screenwriting Conference, for his half-hour family sitcom, Dwayne Has Issues. The series was also selected for development through the NSI Totally Television Program 2020, making it to the program’s highly coveted final phase. For the last two years, he has developed the series alongside Kurt Smeaton (Children Ruin Everything), Eva Thomas (Nika and Madison) and CBC. Anthony was named one of Playback’s “10 To Watch in 2020.” In 2022, he was one of five selected out of over 130 to be in the 2022 Corus Apprentice Program: Young Adults Scripted. Most recently, he served as a writer and Executive Story Editor on the upcoming television series, Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story, premiering on Paramount+ in January 2026.