Katori Hall

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Pulitzer Award-winning and two-time Tony-nominated Memphis-native KATORI HALL is the book
writer and co-producer of the West End and Broadway hit Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. She’s also
the creator of P-VALLEY, the Starz drama based on her play Pussy Valley. The critically acclaimed
series has been garnered a variety of accolades, including the NAACP Image Award for best Television Drama.

Katori’s latest theatrical piece, The Hot Wing King, premiered in Spring 2020 at the Signature
Theatre, rounding out her three-play residency and winning her the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama. Her play The Mountaintop, which fictionalizes the last night in Martin Luther King’s life, won
the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 before opening on Broadway in October 2011 to critical
acclaim. Katori’s other works include the award-winning Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, Saturday
Night/Sunday Morning, Our Lady of Kibeho, Children of Killers, and The Blood Quilt. She is also the
director of the award-winning short, ARKABUTLA.

Katori is an alumna of Columbia University, ART at Harvard University, and Juilliard. She’s a graduate
of the Sundance Episodic Lab’s inaugural class, the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, and Ryan Murphy’s
Half Foundation Directing Program. In addition to her Laurence Olivier Award, Katori’s other awards
include a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York
(PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern
Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, the Columbia University John Jay Award for
Distinguished Professional Achievement, National Black Theatre’s August Wilson Playwriting Award,
and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.