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Headshot of Gloria Majule by Captured by Candace Photography

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 and Atlantic Theater Company. Her canon includes My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (Finalist: Relentless Award, O’Neill, Seven Devils, Orchard Project), Culture Shock (Winner: Leah Ryan Prize, Finalist: O’Neill, Alliance/Kendeda, BAPF), Uhuru (Finalist: Blue Ink Award, Premiere Stages, BAPF), and Fifteen Hundred (Finalist: Seven Devils). Gloria is a five time nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

 

Her work has recently been developed at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration, Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, the New Harmony Project, Seattle Public 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. 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.  (Curriculum Vitae available upon request)

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