Nichelle D. Tramble Spellman (born February 11, 1967) is an American television producer and writer.
Career In 2017, Spellman, and her husband, Malcolm Spellman, began to co-produce and co-write an alternate history television series for HBO, called Confederate, set in a present day America where slavery remained legal. The pair found themselves called upon to explain how African-American producers could be involved in a show focused around slavery.
She has worked as a writer or producer on The Good Wife, Justified, Mercy, Harper's Island and Women's Murder Club.
Nichelle Tramble Spellman is the creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told, starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Ron Cephas Jones, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach, Tracie Thoms, and Annabella Sciorra. The limited series is inspired by the 2017 novel Are You Sleeping.
Truth Be Told debuted on Apple TV+ on December 6, 2019. In February 2020, Spellman won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for "Monster", the first episode of the series.
Spellman is also the author of the novels The Dying Ground and The Last King, published by Random House/Ballantine.
Filmography YearTitleCredited asNotesWriterProducer2007–08Women's Murder Club Wrote: "No Opportunity Necessary" and teleplay: "Never Tell"2009Harper's Island Episode: "Seep"2010Mercy Episodes: "I Saw This Pig and I Thought of You" and "There is No Superwoman"2012Justified Story and teleplay: "When the Guns Come Out", also executive story editor2012–16The Good Wife Wrote 5 episodesAlso co-producer, supervising, co-executive, and consulting producer2019–21Truth Be Told Creator, wrote 3 episodes2021Snowfall Consulting producer2026The Drop: A Snowfall Saga Consulting producer
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryWorkResult2013Spur AwardsSpur Award for Best Drama Script (Fiction)Justified 2014Writers Guild of America AwardsDrama SeriesThe Good Wife 2015 2020NAACP Image AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Dramatic SeriesTruth Be Told (for "Monster")
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