{"id":109810,"date":"2021-03-17T18:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=109810"},"modified":"2021-03-17T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:28:46","slug":"between-the-world-and-me-director-kamilah-forbes-signs-with-uta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/between-the-world-and-me-director-kamilah-forbes-signs-with-uta\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Between The World And Me’ Director Kamilah Forbes Signs With UTA"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Award-winning theater and television director-producer and overall queen Kamilah Forbes has signed<\/p>\n

In 2018, Forbes directed the sold-out world premiere and tour of the theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’  bestselling novel Between the World and Me<\/em> at the Apollo Theater and Kennedy Center. She went on to serve as executive producer and director for the TV adaptation for HBO.<\/p>\n

The adaptation of Between the World and Me<\/em> earned Forbes an NAACP Image Awards nomination as well as a Critics Choice Awards nomination.<\/p>\n

She will next team with Plan B and Harpo Films to bring more of Coates’ work to the big screen as she will adapt his best-selling novel The Water Dancer.<\/em> Coates will adapt the screenplay and Forbes, Plan B and Harpo will serve as producers.<\/p>\n

Forbes has produced several other works for television, most notably the seventh season of the Peabody Award-winning series Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry<\/em> on HBO. She was also a co-executive producer on the Brave New Voices<\/em> documentary series on HBO, which received several NAACP Image Awards, in addition to executive producing the most recent PBS special The Women’s List<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She currently serves as the executive producer at the World-Famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, which UTA also recently signed in all areas.<\/p>\n

Forbes’s other directing credits include By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,<\/em> written by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, Blood Quilt<\/em> written by Katori Hall, and Sunset Baby<\/em> by MacArthur Genius Dominique Morrisseau. She was also the associate director on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning series The Wiz Live<\/em>, the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun<\/em>, and Broadway hits The Mountaintop and Stick Fly.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her mantle is filled with numerous awards and accolades including a Zelda Fichandler Award for excellence in Directing from SDC, a Venues Now Award, 50 under 50, the 2019 NBTF Larry Leon Hamlin Producer Award, a 2019 Root 100 Awardee, a Helen Hayes and Barrymore Award, and an Audelco.<\/p>\n

Forbes will continue to be repped by Viewpoint.<\/p>\n

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