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American playwright, screenwriter, and director
- Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.
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Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name , as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Dec 21, 2020 · The call went out to Kemp Powers, a rising playwright and “Star Trek: Discovery” TV writer who headed to Pixar’s Bay Area headquarters with much more than notes.
- Michael Cavna
In Pittsburgh, the City Theater just announced the Kemp Powers Commission Fund for Black Playwrights. As an entry in the Pixar canon, “Soul” will probably be watched for years to come.
Feb 3, 2021 · The story spans their '80s New York City childhood to a Minnesota courtroom in 2006, in which we witness the power of race and privilege in America. Jovan Adepo in “Christa McAuliffe’s Eyes Were Blue” by Kemp Powers. Filmed live at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, this digital presentation will give audiences their first chance to hear this new ...
Feb 18, 2021 · Kemp Powers Is Awards Season’s Most Valuable Screenwriter. The journalist turned playwright has penned just two features, Soul and One Night in Miami... —and they’re both Oscar front-runners....
- Cassie da Costa
Jan 27, 2021 · By Akiva Gottlieb. Jan. 27, 2021 6 AM PT. Kemp Powers is having the sort of year that fledgling screenwriters dream about. After two decades as a journalist, and a few more years as a...
Nov 19, 2020 · The Disney subsidiary’s 23rd feature film, and first with a Black lead, was directed by the studio’s chief creative officer Pete Docter and co-directed by playwright Kemp Powers....
