Katori Hall Memphis-native Katori Hall is an acclaimed writer and director of stage and screen. Her most recent play, The Hot Wing King, won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Katori also wrote the book for the Olivier-nominated, West End smash, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. The Tony-winning Broadway transfer of the music legends’ story garnered Katori two Tony nominations for her work as both book writer and producer. Katori made her London debut in 2009 with The Mountaintop, which went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New play.  Her other notable works include Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho, Children of Killers, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning and Hoodoo Love.

Katori is currently the Showrunner and Executive Producer of P-VALLEY, the critically acclaimed television series adapted from her stage play Pussy Valley. The series has won four NAACP Image Awards, including the 2023 prize for Outstanding Drama, and has been nominated for multiple Emmy, Gotham, Independent Spirit, and GLAAD Media honors.

Katori is the proud recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, the NYFA Fellowship, the Columbia University John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, the National Black Theatre’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She is also an alumna of Sundance’s Episodic and Screenwriting Labs, and Ryan Murphy’s Half Foundation Directing Program.