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Search - List of Books by Katori Hall
Katori Hall is an American playwright, journalist and actress. She is a graduate of Columbia University. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King's last night before his assassination, premiered in London in 2009 to great critical acclaim. After a sell-out run at Theatre503, the play transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End. The production was directed by James Dacre and featured British actors David Harewood and Lorraine Burroughs. Harewood was nominated for Best Actor in the Evening Standard and Whatsonstage Awards and Burroughs for Best Actress in the Olivier Awards. The production was also nominated for Best New Play in the Olivier and Whatsonstage Awards and Most Promising Playwright in the Evening Standard Awards. Hall won the best new play award at the Laurence Olivier Awards in March 2010 for The Mountaintop.
The Independent called The Mountaintop, 'breathtaking'. Theater critic Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph gave the production five stars and hailed it a 'triumph'.
Her other plays include Hoodoo Love, which received its premiere at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2007. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, 2006 Royal Court Theatre Residency, 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
As a journalist, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, Essence and Newsweek.
Her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King's last night before his assassination, premiered in London in 2009 to great critical acclaim. After a sell-out run at Theatre503, the play transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End. The production was directed by James Dacre and featured British actors David Harewood and Lorraine Burroughs. Harewood was nominated for Best Actor in the Evening Standard and Whatsonstage Awards and Burroughs for Best Actress in the Olivier Awards. The production was also nominated for Best New Play in the Olivier and Whatsonstage Awards and Most Promising Playwright in the Evening Standard Awards. Hall won the best new play award at the Laurence Olivier Awards in March 2010 for The Mountaintop.
The Independent called The Mountaintop, 'breathtaking'. Theater critic Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph gave the production five stars and hailed it a 'triumph'.
Her other plays include Hoodoo Love, which received its premiere at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2007. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, 2006 Royal Court Theatre Residency, 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
As a journalist, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, Essence and Newsweek.
This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Katori Hall", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
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