CHUCK LIGHTNING

CHUCK LIGHTNING is a cofounder and the Chief Creative Officer of Wondaland and Wondaland Pictures, as well as a co-producer and one of the core architects of Janelle Monáe’s Afro-futuristic album manifestos: Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) (2007); The ArchAndroid (2010), The Electric Lady (2013) and Dirty Computer (2018).  He also worked as a consigliere and creative director on The Age of Pleasure as well. Additionally, as the Chief Chaos Officer of Wondaland, he has written and collaborated on transmedia campaigns, lexicon branding initiatives, zany “blacktronic” marketing plans, innovative stageshows, and epic music videos, including writing and co-directing Ms. Monáe’s fifty-minute epic emotion picture Dirty Computer.  In addition, he has written and produced songs for Outkast and his own group Deep Cotton, whose debut single “Let’s Get Caught” ignited a wave of millennial free love energy on Tinder, and whose debut album release is coming soon.  As a writer, he is currently at work on The ArchAndroid, a science fiction epic film based on The ArchAndroid album, several other mind-bending film projects, as well as the ArchAndroid Graphic Novel Volume One, and his first short story collection entitled Space Reigns Supreme.  Lastly, as a filmmaker and creative director, he has founded 40 Acres and a Pool, a micro-production studio with aims to drive innovation across the verticals of music, publishing, transmedia, gaming, art direction, world-building and design.