Gurira makes her Bay Area debut with The Convert at MTC. She co-created and performed in the award-winning two-woman play, In The Continuum, which premiered off-Broadway and toured the US and Southern Africa. For her work on that production, Gurira won a 2006 Obie Award, the 2006 Outer Critics John Gassner Award, the 2004 Global Tolerance Award (Friends of the United Nations) and was honored by the Theatre Hall of Fame. She has also won the Whiting Award, Best Playwright with NAACP, and her play Eclipsed, which appeared at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 2009, won Best New Play at the Helen Hayes Awards. She is the recipient of the 2008 TCG New Generations Program travel grant for Eclipsed and has taught playwriting and acting in Liberia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Her newest play Familiar premieres this month at Yale Repertory Theatre. Gurira received her MFA in acting from New York University and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She was born in the US to Zimbabwean parents and raised in Zimbabwe. Currently, Gurira can be seen as Michonne in the award-winning AMC series, The Walking Dead.