Kamilah Forbes

Kamilah Forbes
Forbes at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival Anniversary in 2010
Member of the National Council on the Arts
Assumed office
February 2022
Nominated byJoe Biden
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byLee Greenwood
Personal details
BornChicago, Illinois, USA
Alma materHoward University
Occupations
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Curator
Years active2000–present
EmployerApollo Theater (2016–present)

Kamilah Forbes is an American curator, producer, and director. She created and directed the Hip Hop Theater Festival from 2000 to 2016. She has held directing roles for television and theater productions such as Holler if Ya Hear Me, The Wiz Live!, and the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Forbes was named executive producer of the Apollo Theater in 2016.[1]

Early life and education

Forbes was born and raised in Chicago to Jamaican immigrant parents.[2] She attended Howard University with the intention of attending medical school but changed her major to theater to pursue acting.[2] While at Howard she met Chadwick Boseman and they collaborated on a play about their generation.[1]

Career

Theater

In 2000, Forbes wrote and directed Rhyme Deferred, a play that used a mythic fairy tale format to explore the existential nature of hip-hop.[3] That year, she also created the Hip Hop Theater Festival in 2000 citing the need to feature work created for and by her generation.[4] Forbes oversaw the development of the nonprofit called Hi-ARTS, which produces the festival.[5]

In 2014, Forbes was associate director for the Broadway show Holler if Ya Hear Me and assistant director for the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. In 2019 she directed the revival of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage for Signature Theatre.[4]

Forbes left Hi-ARTS in 2016[2] and became executive producer for Harlem's Apollo Theater that year.[2] She stated that her goal as director would be to preserve the heritage of the Black cultural institution,[6] and has made efforts to add a diversity of Black art to the Apollo Theater's offerings.[7] In 2016, the Theater began hosting the New York premiere of the annual Women of the World Festival.[8]

Forbes was one of 300 signatories of a public letter directed at addressing systemic racism in American theater, along with others such as Sandra Oh, Sterling K. Brown, and Viola Davis.[9] The letter was released in June 2020, in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests.[9]

Forbes is set to direct the Broadway musical Soul Train based on the variety television series, which was originally scheduled to be released in 2021,[10] but due to COVID-19 production delays, is now scheduled for a fall 2022 debut.[11]

TV and film

Forbes has directed and produced several television productions that center the intersection of Black narratives and music. She produced the HBO television series Def Poetry Jam (2002) and Brave New Voices, PBS's The Women's List,[2] and was associate director for NBC's The Wiz Live![6]

In 2020, Forbes directed the HBO adaptation of Between the World and Me based on Ta-Nehisi Coates book of the same name. She previously directed the 2018 stage show adaptation.[12] In 2021, it was announced that she will produce a film adaptation of Coates' novel The Water Dancer with Harpo Films and Plan B.[13]

Accolades

On June 23, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Forbes to be a member of the National Council of the Arts.[14] The Senate confirmed her on February 17, 2022 via voice vote.[15]

Personal life

Forbes has a daughter (b. 2016).[1]

Awards and nominations

  • 2019 – Winner, NBTF Larry Leon Hamlin Producer Award[13]
  • 2019 – The Root 100 Honoree[13]
  • 2021 – Nominee, Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special, NAACP Image Awards (for Between the World and Me)[13]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2002 Def Poetry Jam Co-producer HBO television series [2]
2009 Brave New Voices Co-executive producer Television series documentary [2]
2015 The Wiz Live! Associate director Live television special [6]
The Women's List Executive producer Episode of PBS' American Masters [2]
2020 Between the World and Me Director HBO television adaptation [12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Spellings, Sarah (2020-03-10). "What the Executive Producer of the Apollo Theater Wears to Work". The Cut. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Doyle, Doug. "The Apollo's 85th Anniversary and Its Passionate Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes". www.wbgo.org. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  3. ^ Pressley, Nelson (2000-06-09). "'Rhyme Deferred': Hip-Hop Answers to a Higher Calling". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ a b Rebell, Sarah (2019-02-26). "Kamilah Forbes on By The Way, Meet Vera Stark and More". The Interval. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. ^ Smith, Jennifer (2016-05-10). "Apollo Theater Hires Kamilah Forbes as Its Next Executive Producer". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  6. ^ a b c Olivier, Alley (2016-10-26). "Influencers: Kamilah Forbes Sets a New Course for the Apollo Theater". EBONY. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  7. ^ Easter, Makeda (2019-06-13). "For race-specific theater companies, the fight for diversity onstage is far from over". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  8. ^ Kerpen, Carrie. "Feminism Is About More Than Just Breaking The Glass Ceiling". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  9. ^ a b Chow, Andrew R. (2020-06-09). "An Open Letter Slams Racism in the Theater Industry". Time. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  10. ^ Evans, Greg (2019-08-19). "'Soul Train' Musical Bound For Broadway With 2021 ETA". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  11. ^ "Broadway-Bound Soul Train to Premiere at American Conservatory Theater in Fall 2022". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  12. ^ a b Porter, Rick (23 July 2020). "Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me' Heads to HBO". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  13. ^ a b c d Ramos, Dino-Ray (2021-03-17). "'Between The World And Me' Director Kamilah Forbes Signs With UTA". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  14. ^ "President Biden Announces 17 Key Nominations". The White House. 23 June 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  15. ^ "PN755 — Kamilah Forbes — National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 117th Congress (2021-2022)". US Congress. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

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