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Plays

  • The Mountaintop- 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play
  • Hurt Village - 2011 Susan smith Blackburn Prize
  • Children of Killers
  • Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre)
  • Remembrance
  • Saturday Night/ Sunday Morning
  • WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!
  • The Hope Well
  • Our Lady of Kibeho
  • Pussy Valley

Grappling with Racial Identity

At the end of the day, you are not really African — you are too far-removed from your place of origin, there are no language or cultural ties that can sail you home — and you are not really American — because of your brown skin, you can never truly assimilate into mainstream America. You are forever wading in the melting pot that is America, trying hard to define yourself by your own standards and not by the hackneyed, trite, misinformed assumptions held by white Americans. You are attempting to be, first and foremost, human

Katori Hall

Interview

  • May 10th 1981, in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Columbia University- 2003
  • The American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Howard University, Master of Fine Arts in Acting) -2005
  • Julliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program -2009

Awards & Projects

Her awards include the Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, the ARENA Stage American Voices New Play Residency, the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship, two Lecomte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, a NYFA Fellowship, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award

Hall's journalism has appeared in Newsweek, Essence, The Boston Globe, UK's The Guardian, The New York Times, and the Commercial Appeals including reporting for Newsweek . She also directed a film adaption of Hurt Village in 2012

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