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Paris Barclay Signs With Innovative Artists Entertainment


Prolific director-writer Paris Barclay has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for literary representation.

Barclay directed the feature films Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, and The Cherokee Kid, starring Sinbad, James Coburn and Burt Reynolds, as well as TV movie The Big Time for TNT, with Christina Hendricks, Molly Ringwald, and Christopher Lloyd. In 2014, Barclay was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame, joining luminaries including Sidney Poitier, Oprah Winfrey, and Gordon Parks. He spent the remainder of the year directing the pilot and executive producing Murphy’s ABC series, Doctor Odyssey, starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson.

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