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SUMMARY:Before Play with Katori Hall
DESCRIPTION:6:45 – 7:15 PM\, prior to 7:30 performance // Rich Theatre\, Woodruff Arts Center\n  \nJoin us for a pre-show discussion with Katori Hall\, playwright and director of The Hot Wing King. \nBefore Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nReserve Tickets \nFind more information about The Hot Wing King here. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nKatori Hall\n			Playwright & Director\n\n\nKatori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award-winning playwright and television creator/producer hailing from Memphis\, Tennessee. A two-time Tony Award nominee\, she won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play\, The Hot Wing King\, which she will soon direct for the first time at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre in early 2023.  \nShe is currently the showrunner and Executive Producer of the Starz drama series\, P-Valley\, which she adapted from her stage play Pussy Valley. The critically acclaimed and record-breaking series returned for its second season on June 3\, 2022. P-Valley was named to countless ‘Best of 2020’ lists for its first season and\, among many honors\, has received Gotham\, Independent Spirit\, GLAAD Media\, and NAACP Image Award nominations. Katori recently signed an overall deal with Lionsgate Television to continue to develop and produce groundbreaking content across their linear and streaming platforms.  \nFor Broadway\, she most recently wrote and produced the hit musical\, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical\, based on the life of the iconic performer\, receiving two Tony Award nominations for her work as both playwright for ‘Best Book of a Musical’ and as producer in the ‘Best Musical’ category. For the musical’s acclaimed West End production\, she also received an Olivier nomination for ‘Best New Musical.’ \nHer play The Mountaintop\, which vividly reimagines the final night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life\, premiered at Theatre503 in London in 2009\, then transferred to the West End\, where she won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010. It later opened on Broadway in October 2011 to critical acclaim in a production starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. The Mountaintop will soon premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from June 6 – July 9\, 2023. \nKatori’s other works include the award-winning Hurt Village\, which is currently in development as a feature film; plus Hoodoo Love\, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning\, WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!\, Our Lady of Kibeho\, Purple is the Colour of Mourning and The Blood Quilt. \nShe is also the proud recipient of the 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.  \nKatori is an alumnus of the Sundance Episodic Lab’s inaugural class\, as well as the Sundance Screenwriting Lab. She also participated in Ryan Murphy’s Half Foundation Directing Program and directed the award-winning short\, Arkabutla. \n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/before-play-with-katori-hall/
LOCATION:Rich Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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