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Janine Nabers is an American playwright and television writer. Early life. Nabers was born in Houston, Texas to Janet and Cornelius Nabers. She attended Alief Elsik High School in Houston. Nabers has a BA in theater from Ithaca College and an MFA in playwriting from The New School.
Janine Nabers is a New York-based producer, writer and playwright who has worked on shows like Swarm, Atlanta, Watchmen and Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. She is also a Juilliard and Yale alumna and a winner of the Yale Drama Series Prize for her play "Serial Black Face."
- Producer, Writer
- 4 min
Mar 21, 2023 · Janine Nabers co-created Swarm, a limited series about a Black woman obsessed with a pop star, for Amazon Prime. She talks to Sam Sanders about the show's provocative themes, Houston setting, and Beyoncé factor.
Mar 20, 2023 · Swarm co-creator Janine Nabers explains her and Donald Glover's Amazon show with Dominique Fishback as the antihero: "Feels like our Pulp Fiction".
Mar 23, 2023 · Janine Nabers, who co-created Swarm with Donald Glover, talks to EW about the challenges and rewards of telling a story about a Black woman who kills for love. She also discusses the show's genre-bending, the documentary episode, and the representation of Black women in TV.
- Lester Fabian Brathwaite
- 10 min
Jan 12, 2024 · Janine Nabers, the showrunner and cocreator of the Emmy-nominated Prime Video series Swarm, talks to TheWrap about her passion for TV, the writers' strike and the importance of giving writers agency. She also reveals how the strike was a historic win for the writing community and how she wants to make cool stuff.
Janine Nabers is a New York-based playwright, librettist and producer. She has written for Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and Amazon's Swarm, and won the Yale Drama Series Prize for her play Serial Black Face.
