Kamilah Forbes
Actor
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.
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President Joe Biden nominated Forbes to be a member of the National Council of the Arts on June 23, 2021.
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Acting1
- 2008Blood Over a Broken Pawn as Keisha
Behind the camera3
- 2026When a Witness Recants Executive Producer
- 2020Between the World and Me Director, Executive Producer
- 2019School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play Director