Gloria Majule is a storyteller born and raised in Dodoma, Tanzania. She seeks to tell stories that bring multiple black voices together from across the world, and are accessible to black audiences no matter where they are. She writes for and about Africans and the African diaspora and was the first African woman to receive a M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.
Majule has been awarded an Art Omi Residency and commissions from Audible and Atlantic Theater Company. Her work includes My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (Relentless Award finalist), Culture Shock (Leah Ryan Prize winner), and Uhuru (Blue Ink Award featured finalist). A five-time Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, Majule’s plays have recently been developed at the Alley Theatre, the New Group, the New Harmony Project and Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater.
At MacDowell, Majule worked on completing a new draft of her play African Moms' Book Club, a commission by Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and a selection for the 2025 Ground Floor Lab at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She also worked on rewrites for her play My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (a Relentless Award Finalist), Mala Aria (a Premiere Stages Finalist), and Pretty Privilege (included in the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival).
Portrait by Candace Connor
