Gloria Majule

Gloria Majule is a storyteller born and raised in Dodoma, Tanzania. She seeks to tell stories that bring multiple black voices together from across the world, and are accessible to black audiences no matter where they are. She writes for and about Africans and the African diaspora.

 

Gloria has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and commissions by Audible, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Atlantic Theater Company. She was a finalist for the Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. Her work includes My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (Relentless Award Finalist), Culture Shock (Leah Ryan Prize Winner), Uhuru (Alley All New Festival), and Fifteen Hundred (Blue Ink Award Finalist). A 3x O'Neill Finalist and 5x Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, Gloria has been awarded residencies by Yaddo, Art Omi, The New Harmony Project and New York Stage and Film. Her work has been supported by numerous institutions, including The American Playwriting Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Alley Theatre, The Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration, Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, and The New Group. She was a guest speaker for the Courageous Art Panel at Starbucks, and the President's Tea at Vassar College.

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Gloria graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish, and was the first African woman to receive an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. (CV available upon request.)