Books By Kemp Powers - Author

Kemp Powers is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, director and producer. His plays include One Night in Miami…, Little Black Shadows, Christa McAuliffe’s Eyes Were Blue and The Two Reds. He received the 2013 Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding New Play for the world premiere of One Night in Miami... in Los Angeles. That production also won three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards and four NAACP Theatre Awards. One Night’s 2016 production at London’s Donmar Warehouse was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play. His work has been developed at South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, among others. Powers also wrote the Academy Award-nominated 2020 feature adaptation of One Night in Miami... produced by Amazon studios. Directed by Regina King (in her directorial debut), the film debuted to universal acclaim at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals before launching on Amazon Prime V