Phumzile Sitole, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Mirirai Sithole; photo by Joan Marcus
Points of View: If Pretty Hurts...
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Tori Sampson
Playwrights debut. Regional: Cadillac Crew (Yale Rep, April 2019). Plays developed at Vineyard Theatre Lab, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Berkeley Rep, Victory Gardens’ IGNITION Festival, Playwrights Foundation, Ubuntu Festival. Tori is a 2017/18 Playwright’s Center Jerome Fellow and a 2018/19 McKnight Fellow. Awards and honors: Relentless Award (2016, Honorable Mention), Paula Vogel Award (2016), Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award (Second Place), Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Prize (2017, Finalist), Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (2018, Finalist), Paul Green Award (2018). Current commissions: Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Atlantic. MFA: Yale School of Drama. ToriSampson.com
(Updated Feb 2019)
Reviews“Critic’s Pick! ‘Beauty, Blackness, and Beyoncé. Tori Sampson’s delicious new play is an auspicious professional playwriting debut.’”
— Jesse Green, The New York Times“If Pretty Hurts is full of winking whimsy and frightening recognitions — it’s got teeth.”
— Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
