Danai Gurira is an award-winning playwright and actress. Her plays include Eclipsed, which premiered at The Public Theater before moving to Broadway in 2015; Familiar (Yale Repertory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons); The Convert (McCarter Theater, Goodman Theatre, and CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre), which won the Stavis Award, an LA Drama Critics Award and six Ovation Awards; and In Continuum (Primary Stages), co-written and co-performed Nikkole Salter, and for which Gurira won a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress. As an actress, Danai stars as “Michonne” in AMC’s critically-acclaimed original series The Walking Dead. Danai’s film acting credits include Mother of George, The Visitor, 3 Backyards, Restless City, and Black Panther. Danai was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award in Drama. She is the co-founder and President of Almasi, a Zimbabwean American Dramatic Arts Collaborative Organization. Danai was born in the US and raised in Zimbabwe by Zimbabwean parents. She holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
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