ABOUT
T. Marie King is an Emmy and NAACP Image Award–nominated producer, writer, and director whose work sits at the intersection of art, activism, and ancestral memory. Her storytelling is rooted in cultural truth, unearthing histories, challenging silence, and illuminating the emotional landscapes of Black life.
She produced Shuttlesworth (2022), a powerful documentary on civil rights leader Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth, which earned a Silver Telly Award, the Alabama Broadcasters Award for Best Historical Documentary, and an Emmy Award nomination. She also produced two episodes of In The Margins (2024), a PBS Digital Studios series amplifying underrepresented narratives, earning a Silver Telly Award for the series and a NAACP Image Award nomination. In 2026, she co-produced an episode of the PBS Voices series The Story In Us episode A Griot in America, continuing her work in nationally distributed storytelling.
In 2025, King made her narrative directorial debut with The Before, a short film exploring a family confronting the weight of school integration. The film screened at 11 film festivals and earned multiple honors, including Best Short Film at the Medusa Film Festival and Magic Silver Screen and Best Short Indie Film at the Cult Movies International Film Festival.
Expanding her work into theater, King wrote and produced two stage readings, How Long, Not Long (2025) and TAPS (2026), continuing her commitment to storytelling that bridges history, resistance, and collective memory.
Across film and stage, her work is driven by a singular purpose: to tell stories that make people feel, remember, and reckon.