Nichelle D. Tramble Spellman (born February 11, 1967) is an American television producer and writer.
[2] In 2017, Spellman, and her husband, Malcolm Spellman, began to co-produce and co-write an alternate history television series for HBO, called Confederate, set in a present day America where slavery remained legal.
[2] The pair found themselves called upon to explain how African-American producers could be involved in a show focused around slavery.
[3] She has worked as a writer or producer on The Good Wife, Justified, Mercy, Harper's Island and Women's Murder Club.
[4][5] Nichelle Tramble Spellman is the creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told, starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Ron Cephas Jones, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach, Tracie Thoms, and Annabella Sciorra.