Director

Kamilah Forbes

Acting

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 1All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 2759791

Known for: Acting

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1990 - 2026

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.22

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Biography

Kamilah Forbes is an American curator, producer, and director. She created and directed the Hip Hop Theater Festival from 2000 to 2016. Forbes has directed and produced several television productions that center the intersection of Black narratives and music. She produced the HBO television series Def Poetry Jam (2002) and Brave New Voices, PBS's The Women's List, and was associate director for NBC's The Wiz Live! In 2020, Forbes directed the HBO adaptation of Between the World and Me based on Ta-Nehisi Coates book of the same name. She previously directed the 2018 stage show adaptation. President Joe Biden nominated Forbes to be a member of the National Council of the Arts on June 23, 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kamilah Forbes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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