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INTERVIEW W/ ERIC HAYWOOD | WRITER OF FOUR OF HEARTS AND FOX TV DRAMA … “EMPIRE”| Eric was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He began his career as a music video director while still enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in filmmaking. After relocating to Atlanta, Eric went on to direct and produce videos featuring such artists as Usher, Outkast, Cee-Lo Green New Edition, Ice-T, Tupac Shakur, and legendary Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Bootsy Collins. The video Eric Haywood directed, for Bay Area rapper E-40′s song “Sprinkle Me” was selected by MTV and XXL Magazine as the #10 Greatest West-Coast Rap Video of All Time. After moving to Los Angeles, Eric landed jobs as a writer on all five seasons of Showtime’s Soul Food: The Series, and NBC’s police drama Hawaii, and Private Practice with Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald. Most recently, Eric wrote the Hallmark Channel Original Movie Relative Stranger, starring Eriq LaSalle and directed by Charles Bu