Kamilah Forbes

Kamilah Forbes is an American curator, producer, and director. She is best known for creating and directing the Hip Hop Theater Festival from 2000 to 2016. Forbes has held directing roles for various television and theater productions including Holler if Ya Hear Me, The Wiz Live!, and the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. In 2016, she was named executive producer of the Apollo Theater. Forbes was born and raised in Chicago to Jamaican immigrant parents. She attended Howard University where she initially pursued a career in medicine but later changed her major to theater. Forbes collaborated with Chadwick Boseman on a play about their generation while at Howard.