Gloria Majule

Gloria Majule is a playwright from Dodoma, Tanzania presently residing in Seattle, WA. 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 plays about Africans and the African diaspora. Gloria has been commissioned by Audible and Atlantic Theater Company. She is the 2023 winner of the Leah Prize from the Leah Ryan Fund. Gloria's plays have been developed at American Blues Theater, Vassar's Powerhouse Theater, The New Group, Premiere Stages at Kean University, Great Plains Theater Commons, A is For, Alliance Theater, Westport Country Playhouse and Aye Defy. She has been a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Alliance Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Gloria graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.