Puerto-Rican American actor and screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson was nominated today for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the 73rd annual edition of the Writers Guild of America Awards.
Based on the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name written by August Wilson, the film directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman—in his film film performance, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts is set in Chicago in the 1920s and follows a group of musicians sitting in a rehearsal room with legendary blues singer Ma Rainey.
Born in born in 1956 in Lackawanna, New York, Santiago-Hudson is a Tony Award and Obie Award-winning actor. In 2013, Santiago-Hudson won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director, an Obie Award for Direction, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for his work in the Off-Broadway production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson.
