Katori Hall is an American playwright, journalist, and actress from Memphis, Tennessee. Hall's plays include her Olivier Award-winning Broadway debut, The Mountaintop (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre); her Off-Broadway plays Our Lady of Kibeho (Irene Diamond Stage), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre), and her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning Hurt Village (Romulus Linney Courtyard); and her regional plays Blood Quilt (Arena Stage), Pussy Valley (Mixed Blood Theatre), Children of Killers (Castillo Theatre), Remembrance (Women's Project Theater), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Prologu
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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. Hours after King's final speech, punct... SEE MORE