Katori Hall

Katori Hall is a playwright-performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her plays include Hoodoo Love, Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop (West End), The Hope Well, On the Chitlin’ Circuit, and Freedom Train. Her work has been developed and presented at the following venues: Theatre 503, Trafalgar Studios, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Women’s Project, World Financial Center, Lark Play Development Center, Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, American Repertory Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Her awards include the 2009-10 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center. Recently, she was shortlisted for the London Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for The Mountaintop and received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. She recently graduated from the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program. Visit www.katorihall.com

Shows participated in:
The Beyonce Effect (2009 - 10) Playwright