Katori Hall

Katori Hall is a 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 . She is currently the showrunner and Executive Producer of the Starz drama series P-Valley , which she adapted from her stage play Pussy Valley . For Broadway, she most recently wrote and produced the hit musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical . Her play The Mountaintop premiered at Theatre503 in...See more

Katori Hall is a 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 . She is currently the showrunner and Executive Producer of the Starz drama series P-Valley , which she adapted from her stage play Pussy Valley . For Broadway, she most recently wrote and produced the hit musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical . Her play The Mountaintop 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. Hall's other works include the award-winning Hurt Village , Hoodoo Love , Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, Our Lady of Kibeho, Purple is the Colour of Mourning and The Blood Quilt . See less