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