About Thato
Film and Art
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe Black History Month Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at both the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival and the 2021 Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF). She was also named Best Feature Director at the 2021 Hamilton Film Festival. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The Boston Globe.
In 2025, Mwosa received the prestigious Brother Thomas Fellowship, which supports and celebrates a diverse group of Greater Boston artists working at the highest level of excellence across visual, performing, literary, media, and craft arts, while enhancing their ability to thrive and create new work. She was selected for the 2024 Stowe Narrative Lab with her script Rati, set in Botswana, and for The Writers Lab (2024), a highly selective program for women over 40 supported by Meryl Streep. Previously, she was a finalist for the 2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Dramatic Writing, and her script A Blue Dawn was a quarterfinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
As a visual artist, Mwosa has exhibited her work at venues including the Wortiz Gallery, Dudley Café, and The Armory. She is also the creator of SAWA Trivia, an African-themed trivia card game used in universities and high schools, and the author of 14 African Women Who Made History (2021).
Mwosa has taught film and screenwriting at Boston University, Harvard University, and Lesley University, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Emerson College.
