Jeffrey W. Byrd

Jeffrey W. Byrd is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Once a protégé of Spike Lee, Byrd started his film career by working on several of Lee's films^[1] including Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X and Jungle Fever.^[2] Byrd directed more than one hundred music videos and numerous television commercials as well as feature films such as Jasper Texas, Seventeen Again and King's Ransom.^[2] His film, A Beautiful Soul, was released in 2012.

Byrd is a native of Brooklyn, New York.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Seventeen Again	Director	Won the 2000 American Black Film Festival Best Work in Progress
2002	Book of Love	Director, Writer	Praised by Variety for characters he wrote and directed[3]
2005	King's Ransom	Director
2012	A Beautiful Soul

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001–04	Soul Food	Director	5 episodes
2015	Single Ladies		2 episodes
2017	The Quad
	Switched at Birth		"Occupy Truth"
	Rebel		2 episodes
2017–18	Runaways
2018–20	Dynasty		7 episodes
2018	The Originals		"Don't It Just Break Your Heart"
	Light as a Feather		2 episodes
2018–20	Charmed		3 episodes
2019	Black Lightning		2 episodes
2020–22	Good Trouble		3 episodes
2020–22	The Flash		4 episodes
2021	Nancy Drew		2 episodes
2021–22	Our Kind of People		4 episodes
2022	Star Trek: Discovery		"Rosetta"; co-directed with Jen McGowan
2022	Tom Swift		" ...And Nine Inches of Danger"
2023-25	Yellowjackets		2 episodes
2023	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds		"Under the Cloak of War"
2024	The Irrational		"Bad Blood"
2025	Watson		"My Life's Work Part 1"