Danai Gurira is a playwright and actor. Her plays include Eclipsed, which received premiere productions at the Wooly Mammoth, Center Theater Group and Yale Repertory Theater. It recently won Best New play at the 2010 Helen Hayes Awards as well as Danai winning Best Playwright at the NAACP Theater Awards in August 2010. She co-created and performed in the award-winning two woman play In the Continuum, which premiered off-Broadway and toured the U.S. and Southern Africa. For her work on that production, Danai won a 2006 Obie Award, the 2006 Outer Critics John Gassner Award, and the 2004 Global Tolerance' Award (Friends of the United Nations), in addition to being honored by the Theatre Hall… of Fame. Gurira is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She is also a commissioned playwright with Yale Rep. She received her MFA in Acting from Tisch, NYU. Danai Gurira was born in the U.S. to Zimbabwean parents and raised in Zimbabwe. She lives in New York City.
Nikkole Salter is an actor and playwright who is known for her co-authorship of In the Continuum with Danai Gurira. For its Off-Broadway run and US State Department and Bloomberg sponsored international tour, Salter received an OBIE Award (2006), and the NY Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Award for Best New American Play (2006), the Seldes-Kanin fellowship from the Theatre Hall of Fame, and the Global Tolerance Award from the Friends of the United Nations. Another play, Carnaval, was selected to be a part of The New Black Fest 2011-2012 season and received its world premiere to great acclaim as part of Luna Stage's twentieth anniversary season.