Katori Hall
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Katori Hall (born May 10, 1981) is an American activist, playwright, journalist, and actor from Memphis, Tennessee.
Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho, Children of Killers, and The Mountaintop were among Hall's most popular projects.
Early life and education
When she was five years old, Hall's parents moved the family from Raleigh, North Carolina, to a predominantly white neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from Craigmont High School as the first Black valedictorian in the school's history, and Columbia University awarded her Bachelor's degree in African-American Studies and Creative Writing in 2003. She was a resident of John Jay Hall as a student. Hall began as a student in the theater department, where she worked with fellow student Kelly McCreary. She left majors because the faculty and students were inhospitable to her creativity and writing. The Institute for Research in African-American Studies, the University's Institute for Advanced Studies in African-American Studies, gave her top departmental honors.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in 2005. She revised the script for Hoodoo Love, the first full-length play she wrote, during this period. Lynn Nottage was nominated by Lynn Nottage for the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentorship Project in 2006. It premiered off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre in Cherry Lane and received a warm response.
In 2009, Hall graduated from the Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program. In the course, she wrote the script for The Mountaintop.
Personal life
Hall is married to Alan Tumusiime, a video editor and photographer. They have two children.
Career
Hall rose to national prominence after her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night before his assassination, premiered in London in 2009 to critical acclaim. After being unable to find a venue in the United States, Hall returned to London. The performance was staged at Theatre503, where it sold out, and then moved to Trafalgar Studios in the West End. The production was directed by James Dacre and featured British actors David Harewood and Lorraine Burroughs. The Mountaintop was described as "breathtaking" by Nicola Christie of The Independent. In the Daily Telegraph, theater critic Charles Spencer gave the performance five stars and praised it as a "triumph." The Mountaintop received the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play, making Hall the first Black woman to receive this award.
Samuel L. Jackson, Jr., and Angela Bassett as a mystery maid opened on Broadway in September 2011. Both praise and critique were generated by the King's language and portrayal. The Mountaintop had recouped its entire capitalization, which was $3.1 million, during the show's run-up.
Hall, along with Annie Baker, Will Eno, Kenneth Lonergan, and Regina Taylor, was one of the playwrights selected for the Perpetsburg Signature Theatre in New York in October 2011, which guarantees each writer three full world premierere performances during their five-year stay.
Hurt Village, a drama about life and change in a Memphis housing project, premiered in 2012 off-Broadway at Signature Theatre Company as part of the company's inaugural season. The 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award from TCG accompanied the performance, which received the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Tonya Pinkins, as well as Marsha Sophie Blake, Ron Cephas Jones, Saycon Sengbloh, Charlie Hudson III, Nicholas Christopher, Corey Hawkins, and Joaquina Kalukango appeared in the film. Hall would make her debut film directorial debut with a Hurt Village based on her childhood memories in 2014. In 2013, Hoodoo Love premiered at Cherry Lane Theatre.
Our Lady of Kibeho, the second play of Hall's residency at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre, had its world premiere in The Pershing Square Signature Center in November 2014, directed by Michael Greif. Hall in Our Lady of Kibeho tells the tale of a real-life incident of 1981, when a group of Rwandan schoolgirls claimed to have a glimpse of the Virgin Mary.
In 2015, Hall's Pussy Valley performance at the Mixed Blood Theatre was performed. The play's first reading, about the running of a strip joint in Mississippi, took place in 2009.
Hall wrote the book for the musical Tina Turner Musical with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins. Tina is a jukebox musical based on Tina Turner's music and depicting her life. In November 2019, it debuted on Broadway for the first time. The show received a nomination for the Best Book of a Musical in 2020.
Remembrance, Children of Killers, and WHADDABLOODCLOT are among Hall's other productions. !, Pussy Valley, and The Hot Wing King are among the many Hot Wing Kings to be set in Memphis. "A earthiness, a humour, a female vision, and a luxuriant language that feels distinctly her own," her artist has been praised for her work. Hall was given the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Hot Wing King, which performed Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in February 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted it.
Hall turned Pussy Valley into a Starz television drama series called P-Valley, which premiered in 2020. It has received critical acclaim, and it was relaunched for a second season just two weeks after it premiered. She is the show creator, showrunner, and executive producer. She signed a full contract with Lionsgate Television in 2020.