Yoruba Richen

Career Overview

Yoruba Richen has 34 screen credits in a career dating back to 1988. Signature works include The Fall of Diddy, Free Joan Little, American Coup: Wilmington 1898. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

female

Known Credits

34

Birth Date

1972-01-01

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Known For

• 

  The Fall of Diddy
• Free Joan Little
• 

  American Coup: Wilmington 1898
• 

  The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
• 

  The Cost of Inheritance
• 

  The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Frequent Collaborators

• Sean Combs (1 collaborations)
• Delbert Hunt (1 collaborations)
• Marquette Folley (1 collaborations)
• Karen Allen Baxter (1 collaborations)
• Jennifer Ivey (1 collaborations)
• Henrie Monteith Treadwel (1 collaborations)
• Murray Bishoff (1 collaborations)
• Jack George (1 collaborations)
• Jamon Jordan (1 collaborations)
• Candacy Taylor (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (16 credits)

  • Free Joan Little

    director

    directing
    2025
  • The Fall of Diddy

    director

    directing

    - The Assistant (2025) ... director directing

    - The Fall (2025) ... director directing

    - Untouchable (2025) ... director directing

    - Empire Under Fire (2025) ... director directing

    - The Making of a Mogul (2025) ... director directing
    2025
  • American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    director

    directing
    2024
  • The Cost of Inheritance

    director

    directing
    2023
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

    director

    directing
    2022
  • American Reckoning

    director

    directing
    2022
  • How It Feels to Be Free

    director

    directing
    2021
  • The Killing of Breonna Taylor

    director

    directing
    2020
  • And She Could Be Next

    field director

    directing
    2020
  • The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

    director

    directing
    2020
  • American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas

    director

    directing
    2019
  • The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    director

    directing
    2019
  • Crooked Lines

    director

    directing
    2018
  • The New Black

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Promised Land

    director

    directing
    2009
  • American Experience

    - American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024) ... director directing
    1988

• production (11 credits)

  • American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    producer

    production
    2024
  • The Cost of Inheritance

    producer

    production
    2023
  • The Recall: Reframed

    producer

    production
    2022
  • Storming Caesars Palace

    consulting producer

    production
    2022
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

    executive producer

    production
    2022
  • American Reckoning

    producer

    production
    2022
  • The Killing of Breonna Taylor

    producer

    production
    2020
  • Crooked Lines

    producer

    production
    2018
  • Out in the Night

    producer

    production
    2014
  • The New Black

    producer

    production
    2013
  • American Experience

    - American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024) ... producer production
    1988

• writing (5 credits)

  • American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    writer

    writing
    2024
  • American Reckoning

    writer

    writing
    2022
  • The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    writer

    writing
    2019
  • The New Black

    writer

    writing
    2013
  • American Experience

    - American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024) ... writer writing
    1988

• actors (2 credits)

  • The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    Self - Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Dykes, Camera, Action!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018