Kemp Powers won the 2013 Ted Schmitt Award for outstanding world premiere of a new play for One Night in Miami... The play's Los Angeles premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre won three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, four NAACP Theatre Awards and one LA Weekly Theater Award, including two for Playwriting. His other plays include Little Black Shadows, The Two Reds and Christa McAuliffe's Eyes Were Blue. His work has been developed at the Pacific Playwrights Festival, the Colorado New Play Summit and the Classical Theatre of Harlem. He is a founding member of The Temblors playwrights collective in Los Angeles, where he resides.