Memphis-native Katori Hall is the Olivier Award-winning bookwriter and co-producer of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
Katori's play The Mountaintop won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 before opening on Broadway in October 2011 to critical acclaim. Her other works include Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Our Lady of Kibeho, and The Blood Quilt. Her next piece, The Hot Wing King, premieres Spring 2020 at the Signature Theatre, where she is a resident playwright. Katori is also the showrunner and executive producer of "P-Valley," the new Starz series based on her play Pussy Valley.
Katori’s accolades include a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, a Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, the NYFA Fellowship, the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.
She is a proud member of the Ron Brown Scholar Program and the Coca-Cola Scholar Program.
Katori's play The Mountaintop won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 before opening on Broadway in October 2011 to critical acclaim. Her other works include Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Our Lady of Kibeho, and The Blood Quilt. Her next piece, The Hot Wing King, premieres Spring 2020 at the Signature Theatre, where she is a resident playwright. Katori is also the showrunner and executive producer of "P-Valley," the new Starz series based on her play Pussy Valley.
Katori’s accolades include a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, a Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, the NYFA Fellowship, the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.
She is a proud member of the Ron Brown Scholar Program and the Coca-Cola Scholar Program.
Sessions in which Katori Hall participates
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Stellar Dramas to Broadway Musicals: Black Female Playwrights
1 hour,
1:45 PM
- 2:45 PM
New York Hilton Midtown - Trianon Ballroom
Panel
Linda Armstrong, New York Amsterdam News (Moderator)
Katori Hall, TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Participant)
Lynn Nottage, Floyd’s (Participant)
Michelle Wilson, The House That Will Not Stand (Participant)