About Thato
Film and Art
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut feature, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe Black History Month Film Festival and earned 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.
Mwosa was selected for the 2024 Stowe Narrative Lab with her new script, Rati, set in Botswana, and for The Writer’s Lab (2024)—a prestigious program for women over 40, supported by Meryl Streep. Previously, she was a finalist for the 2019 Mass Cultural Art Fellowship in Dramatic Writing, and her script A Blue Dawn was a quarter-finalist for The Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
As an artist, Mwosa has shown her work at venues including the Wortiz Gallery, Dudley Cafe, and The Amory. She also created SAWA Trivia, an African-themed trivia card game used in multiple universities and high schools, and in 2021 she published 14 African Women Who Made History.
Mwosa has taught film and screenwriting at Boston University, Harvard University, and Lesley University. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Emerson College.
