Photographed by Maegan Gindi
“Queen Latifah and I shot scenes from the movie Just Wright at the Izod Center,” Debra Martin Chase says of her current office, inside a converted sports arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where she was photographed Jan. 19.
The president and CEO of Martin Chase Productions became the first Black woman to produce a film to gross more than $100 million ( Courage Under Fire ) and score a deal at a major studio, and now she s never been busier.
Now in her fourth decade in entertainment, Debra Martin Chase has produced blockbusters and awards bait, making comfortable homes for herself in Manhattan and the Hollywood Hills along the way. But on this late January afternoon, she s in a trailer in suburban New Jersey speaking by phone during a break from shooting her new Queen Latifah drama for CBS,