Tori Sampson

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Tori Sampson
Born20th century
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education Ball State University (BS)
Yale School of Drama (MFA)
Occupation Dramatist

Tori Sampson (born 20th century) is an African-American screenwriter and playwright. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Born in Boston, Sampson moved to North Carolina with her family as a child. Her mother, Wanda Louise Thompson, raised Tori and her two sisters with values she learned through exposure to the Black power movement during her own childhood. [1]

At age 14, one year after the death of her mother, Sampson and her twin sister were sent to a boarding school in Mississippi. [1]

Sampson attended Ball State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She later graduated from the Yale School of Drama, where she studied playwriting. [2]

Career

Shortly after graduating from Yale, Sampson was awarded a 2017–2018 Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center and a 2018–2019 McKnight Fellowship. [2]

Sampson's debut play, If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, premiered in 2019 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. [4] That same year, her play Cadillac Crew was performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre. [5]

Between 2020 and 2022, Sampson hosted an interview series for Wealthsimple titled "Friends With Money". [6]

In 2021, she wrote an episode of the 2021 Amazon Prime Video miniseries Solos . [2]

Sampson served as a writer on three series that aired in 2023, the Amazon Prime Video programs Citadel and Hunters as well as the Showtime series Three Women . [2] Her play This Land Was Made debuted at the Vineyard Theater in New York City that year. [1]

List of works

Theatre

YearTitleVenueRef.
2019If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka Playwrights Horizons [4]
Cadillac Crew Yale Repertory Theatre [5]
2023This Land Was Made Vineyard Theatre [1]

Television

YearTitleNotesRef.
2021 Solos 1 episode [2]
2023 Citadel — [2]
Hunters 8 episodes [2]
Three Women 2 episodes [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Kumar, Naveen (2 June 2023). "For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her 'Black Power Household'". The New York Times . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "About". Tori Sampson. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  3. ↑ Cox, Gordon (17 June 2023). "How One Striking TV Writer Has Kept Busy in Theater". Variety . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  4. 1 2 Green, Jesse (10 March 2019). "Review: Beauty, Blackness and Beyoncé, in 'If Pretty Hurts'". The New York Times . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  5. 1 2 Green, Jesse (6 May 2019). "Review: In 'Cadillac Crew,' a Road Trip Through Racism and Erasure". The New York Times . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  6. ↑ "Articles by Tori Sampson". MuckRack. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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