Thato Mwosa
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Her first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival, and it won the Best Feature Film award at the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival and the 2021 Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF). Additionally, Thato won Best Feature Director at the 2021 Hamilton Film Festival. She has been featured on NPR and the Boston Globe.
Thato was a finalist for the 2019 Mass Cultural Art Fellowship in the Dramatic Writing category. Thato's latest script, Rati, was selected for The Stowe Narrative Lab (2024) and the prestigious Meryl Streep funded The Writer's Lab NYC (2024)
Thato has taught film and screenwriting classes at Boston University, Harvard University, and Lesley University and is an Assistant Professor at Emerson College.
