Katori Hall is an American playwright, journalist, and actress from Memphis, Tennessee. Her plays include her Olivier Award-winning Broadway debut, The Mountaintop (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre); her Off-Broadway plays Our Lady of Kibeho (Irene Diamond Stage), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre), and her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning Hurt Village (Romulus Linney Courtyard). Her regional plays Blood Quilt (Arena Stage), Pussy Valley (Mixed Blood Theatre), Children of Killers (Castillo Theatre), Remembrance (Women’s Project Theater), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Prologue Theatre), and WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! (Williamstown Theatre). Her awards include Kate Neal Kinley and NYFA Fellowships; Southern Writers Bryan Family, Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting, Otto Rene Castillo, Columbia University John Jay, and Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Awards; and two Lecomte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center. |
