Katori Hall Biography

Katori Hall is a playwright performer from Memphis TN. Hurt Village won the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a finalist for the Ruby Award. The script is being adapted into a film and was developed at the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Hall's other plays include: The Mountaintop (2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play) which recently ran on Broadway at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson. Children of Killers (National Theatre UK) Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre) Remembrance (Women's Project) Saturday Night/Sunday Morning WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! The Hope Well Our Lady of Kibeho and Pussy Valley.
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 The New York Times The Boston Globe UK's The Guardian Essence Newsweek and The Commercial Appeal. The Mountaintop and Katori Hall: Plays One are published by Methuen Drama.

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