Kamilah Forbes

Kamilah Forbes
Forbes at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival Anniversary in 2010
Member of the National Council on the Arts
Assumed office
February 2022
Nominated byJoe Biden
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byLee Greenwood
Personal details
BornChicago, Illinois, USA
Alma materHoward University
Occupations
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Curator
Years active2000–present
EmployerApollo Theater (2016–present)

Kamilah Forbes is an American curator, producer, and director. She created and directed the Hip Hop Theater Festival from 2000 to 2016. She has held directing roles for television and theater productions such as Holler if Ya Hear Me, The Wiz Live!, and the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Forbes was named executive producer of the Apollo Theater in 2016.[1]

  1. ^ Spellings, Sarah (2020-03-10). "What the Executive Producer of the Apollo Theater Wears to Work". The Cut. Retrieved 2020-07-23.