Micah Ariel Watson

Aria For Honey

Micah Watson

Logline:  

In 1967, a Kansas woman in a religious Black community exchanges rolls of 16mm film with a D.C. preacher, engaging in her first long distance love affair. 

Bio: 

Micah Ariel Watson is a filmmaker and playwright whose work centers the blurred lines between the sacred and secular in Black culture. A Kansas native, Micah is a graduate of University of Virginia and a soon MFA graduate of NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing. 

Her film ​40th & State​ (2018), was a 2018 official selection of BlackStar Film Festival, the 2019 Best Documentary winner of Black Web Fest, and screened at MOCA in Los Angeles and McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and will screen at Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque in 2019. Her film ​Molasses​ (2018) is the 2018 Grand Prize Winner of Poe Film Festival and a 2019 official selection of Richmond International Film Festival and Black Web Fest. Her films ​Edges​ (2016) and​Educated Feet​ (2017) screened at the Virginia Film Festival. 

Micah is the 2018 recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Undergraduate Playwriting Award and is a KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry Distinguished Playwright for her full-length play ​Canaan​ (2018). She is also the winner of the 2018 KCACTF Gary Garrison 10-Minute Play Award, and the winner of the 2019 Theater Masters Playwrights Lab for her ten-minute play​ Will Be Live​ (2018). She received the Clay E. Delauney Memorial Award for her plays​ Wake Up Musi​c​! ​(2017) and ​Canaan​(2018). Micah was a 2019 Sundance Theater Lab Finalist and a 2019 O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist for ​Wake Up Music! ​Her play ​Alaiyo​ is the 2020 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, Hip-Hop Creator Award, Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, and received distinctinction for the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. ​Alaiyo ​was also 2019 a finalist for the Leah Ryan Playwrights prize. 

Recently, she is the writer/director of BET Her’s ​The Waiting Room: The Story of Nadia​. Micah was selected for Tribeca Film Festival’s 2020 N.O.W. Creator’s Market. Her screenplay, ​The Rhythm of a Supernova​ is a finalist for the 2020 Fusion Film Festival. Her web-series ​Black Enough​, of which she is the writer, director, and executive producer is currently streaming on YouTube and is an official selection of the Richmond International Film Festival, Miami Web Fest, and the National Black Film Festival in 2020. She is in pre-production for the second season of the series.