Biography
A native of New Jersey, Chad "Cutty" Quinn, attended Temple University where he obtained a degree in marketing and business law. He then went on to pursue his law degree at Howard University School of Law. During his studies at Howard however, Chad realized that he wasn't being fulfilled. "I wrote my first short story when I was 13. It wasn't for school or any other assignment, I just had a story in my head that I knew I wanted to get out. For the longest period I allowed fear to keep me from walking in my purpose." For the next few years Chad would learn to use his passion for storytelling and helping others in more unconventional ways. After years working in corporate America, he then took his talents to the educational space and spent time as a dean for K-12. Working with students and families reignited his passion to give a voice to the voiceless, so he decided to put all his efforts into his craft.
With no formal training, Cutty has managed to place as a finalist in multiple film festivals, from HBO's Project Greenlight to the American Black Film Festival's TV ONE Screenwriting Competition. The situation with TV ONE turned out to be a fruitful relationship as his first feature film was bought by the network. In the summer of 2014, Mr. Quinn's TV pilot series "The Kids..." was also rated as the top unsigned pilot series by The Black List.
This writer/director has multiple films that have done extremely well on the festival circuit from the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) to the prestigious Pan African Film Festival (PAFF). Chad has worked extensively to create projects that highlight and examine the human condition. For the Love of Musiq, which he wrote and directed stars Andrea Rachel Parker, Bryan Terrell, Clark, Malinda Williams, along with many other stand out talents, won Best of The Fest at the 2018 Hip Hop Film Festival. The film also aired on Revolt TV.
Mr. Quinn truly takes the monarch "art is a weapon," to life as he's also teamed up with Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler's Blackout for Human Rights, a network of concerned artists, activists, filmmakers, musicians and citizens who committed their energy and resources to immediately address the staggering level of human rights violations against fellow Americans throughout the United States. Blackout for Human Rights was recently selected as one of Ebony Magazine's #EbonyPower100 Honorees. Chad was also recently selected as a top 10 finalist for a fellowship with Sesame Street Writers' Room and named as a Notable Writer for 2018 by NYTF.
In his young but blossoming career, Mr. Quinn has already had seven feature films that premiered on network television; Loved To Death (TV ONE), Christmas Belles (BET), A Christmas Surprise (BET) ,Christmas with the Chestnuts (OWN) I Do...Again (Hallmark) , New Orleans Christmas (Hallmark), Christmas Party Crashers (BET), Christmas Revisited (OWN), and most recently, The Deadly Getaway (BET +).
