Katori Hall
Katori Hall
Katori Hallis an American playwright, journalist, and actress from Memphis, Tennessee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 May 1981
CountryUnited States of America
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Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
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I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
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I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.
I have so many different voices and stories to tell.
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I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do.
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I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.
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Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season.
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I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.
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I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.