Chuck Hayward was born and raised in the entertainment Mecca that is Wilmington, Delaware. Tired of being the only black person in the entire state, Chuck got the hell out of there to attend Syracuse University’s prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. At Syracuse he majored in Television, Radio and Film and wrote and directed his well-received senior thesis film, Withdrawal.

Upon graduating, Chuck moved to Los Angeles where began working as an assistant to the Vice President of Spirit Dance Entertainment (headed by actor, Forest Whitaker). From there he went on to assist producer Robert Teitel at State Street pictures, working on the Fox Searchlight Film, Roll Bounce. Deciding it was time to get closer to his true passion, writing, Chuck left the feature world and worked as an assistant on the CW Network’s pilot MILF & Cookies, then to the CW’s hit show Everybody Hates Chris. During downtime from Chris, Chuck worked as an assistant to director, John Schultz on the Fox feature film They Came From Upstairs, and as a script coordinator for writer/actor/director Jada Pinkett-Smith on the project Human Contract. Today, Chuck is assisting Doug Ellin, executive producer, of the hit HBO comedy (and favorite TV show of President Obama), Entourage.

Throughout his rigorous employment in the industry, Chuck has managed to write both TV and feature projects that are garnering attention for him. He was recently hired to rewrite a comedy feature project for his former employers, State Street Pictures entitled, Market Phish. In addition he has written the comedies Potluck (based on his college misadventures) and The Socialite, with collaborator Dana Scanlon. On the small screen, Chuck has written a hilarious spec episode of the FX Network series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia as well as an irreverent scripted version of the HBO reality series Hard Knocks revolving around summer training camp for the Kansas City Chiefs. He has also written two original pilots: Sleep Away, about the wild and sexy exploits of teen and twenty-something counselors at a residential summer camp and 667 Hampton Street, a comedic look at a man returning home after ten years of captivity and finding that the perfect family he started has evolved into mostly intolerable assholes. He has also assembled a wildly funny sketch packet further displaying his twisted sense of humor.