After more than four decades devoted to storytelling across publishing, entertainment, and cultural spaces, celebrity memoirist and cultural storyteller Ardre Orie has launched Orie Productions, a multimedia production company designed to curate and preserve culture through story.

The Atlanta-based venture represents an expansion of a career that has consistently moved across creative mediums. Orie has developed storytelling campaigns and creative work for organizations and entertainment brands including the WNBA, NBA, NFL, MTV, BET, Bravo, OWN, VH1, We TV, Centric and YouTube.

Now, she is bringing those years of experience under a production banner built for film, television, theatrical productions, and emerging forms of visual storytelling.

Four Decades of Storytelling Become a New Production House

For Orie, Orie Productions is less a departure than a natural continuation.

Her career has operated at the intersection of culture, influence, and legacy, ranging from national advertising campaigns and scripted creative work to long-form editorial projects. She has also become a trusted voice in legacy writing, working with GRAMMY Award-winning artists, political activists, elected officials, CEOs, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and cultural leaders to transform personal experiences into memoirs, speeches, and literary works.

That same commitment to ensuring meaningful stories survive beyond a single moment now serves as the foundation for Orie Productions.

“I’ve never believed storytelling belonged to one medium,” said Orie. “Whether a story lives in a book, on a stage, or through a camera lens, its purpose to preserve what matters remains the same. Orie Productions produces stories that make us remember who we are and who we have the capacity to become.”

‘SCRIBES’ Centers Black Women and Cultural Memory

Among the company’s flagship projects is SCRIBES, a feature documentary examining the indispensable contributions of Black women writers.

At the center of the documentary is a question that reaches beyond literature: How do we preserve culture when society’s systems, institutions, and infrastructure are fractured?

Through intimate conversations with celebrated authors, literary scholars, and cultural voices, SCRIBES explores writing not simply as artistic expression, but as historical preservation and cultural inheritance.

The subject fits naturally within Orie’s larger body of work. Much of her career has centered on helping people document stories that might otherwise disappear, whether through memoir, journalism, publishing, or live performance.

With SCRIBES, that philosophy moves to the documentary screen, creating a space to examine who records history, whose stories endure, and what is at stake when cultural memory is not intentionally protected.

From Books to the Stage and Screen

Orie Productions is also developing a slate of original vertical micro-dramas and theatrical productions, further expanding the company’s approach to storytelling.

The stage is already familiar territory for Orie. Over the past decade, she has written, directed, and executive produced several original theatrical productions. Through the new company, she plans to continue developing live experiences centered on culture, identity and legacy.

The move into vertical micro-dramas also places Orie Productions within an evolving entertainment landscape where mobile-first storytelling is creating additional avenues for filmmakers and producers to reach audiences.

Still, regardless of format, Orie’s central creative philosophy remains consistent: the medium may change, but the responsibility of the storyteller does not.

Building The House of Orie

The launch of Orie Productions also adds another component to The House of Orie, a growing cultural ecosystem of brands founded by Orie.

The portfolio spans legacy book publishing, journalism, luxury lifestyle design and apparel, destination travel, immersive cultural experiences and now film, television and theater.

Orie is also the founder of 13th & Joan Publishing House, The Orie Archive, Orie Atelier and Ardre Orie Retreats.

Together, the ventures reflect an overarching belief that storytelling does not exist only on the page or screen. Instead, stories can be preserved through books, experiences, objects, destinations, conversations, and creative works that connect people with culture and history.

Orie Productions gives that ecosystem a dedicated home for cinematic and theatrical storytelling while creating another avenue through which those narratives can reach broader audiences.

Additional announcements surrounding casting, creative collaborators, production partnerships, and the company’s festival strategy are expected in the coming months.

About Ardre Orie

Ardre Orie is a celebrity memoirist, novelist and cultural storyteller whose career spans more than four decades. She is the founder of 13th & Joan Publishing House, The Orie Archive, Orie Atelier, Ardre Orie Retreats, and Orie Productions.

Throughout her career, Orie has developed creative campaigns and storytelling initiatives for organizations including the WNBA, NBA, NFL, MTV, BET, OWN, Bravo, VH1, We TV, Centric and YouTube. She has also ghostwritten memoirs, speeches, and legacy projects for GRAMMY Award-winning artists, executives, elected officials, entrepreneurs, athletes, and other influential voices.

Across those mediums, her mission remains centered on preserving legacy and culture through story.