Gloria Majule

Show Summary

Four ultra-wealthy Tanzanian women gather every month for their book club to read the Bible and gossip.  When one of the women invites someone new into the book club – a young widow who has just moved home after living abroad – tensions rise and cracks begin to form in the women’s perfectly manicured lives and fiercely held beliefs. 

Bio
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. Gloria has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship; commissions from Audible, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, and Princeton University/The Civilians; and residencies at Yaddo, Art Omi, The New Harmony Project, and New York Stage and Film. A 3x O'Neill Finalist and 5x Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, Gloria's work includes My Father Was Shot in the Back of the Head (Relentless Award Finalist), Culture Shock(Leah Ryan Prize Winner), Uhuru (Alley All New Festival), and Fifteen Hundred (Blue Ink Award Finalist). Gloria graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BA in Performing & Media Arts and Spanish, and was the first African woman to receive an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.