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Janine Nabers
Born
Houston, Texas, U.S.
EducationIthaca College (BFA)
The New School (MFA)
Juilliard School (GrDip)
Notable workAtlanta, Swarm
AwardsNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Limited Series, Swarm Peabody Award, Atlanta

Janine Nabers is an American playwright and television writer.[1]

Early life

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Nabers was born in Houston, Texas to Janet and Cornelius Nabers. She attended Alief Elsik High School in Houston. Nabers has a BA in theater from Ithaca College and an MFA in playwriting from The New School. She is also a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School in New York City.[2]

Career

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Theater

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Nabers was initially interested in becoming a stage actress but her frustration with the lack of black roles in plays encouraged her to try playwriting instead.[2] As a student at Juilliard, her play Annie Bosh is Missing was chosen as a finalist for the 2012-2013 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.[3] Annie Bosh is Missing follows 22-year-old drug addict Annie Bosh who wanders the tumultuous streets of Houston after Hurricane Katrina. The play premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2013.[4] Nabers' play, Serial Black Face, about a single mother coping with the disappearance of her son during the Atlanta child murders, won the 2014 Yale Drama Series prize. The award included publication by the Yale University Press. Serial Black Face had its world premiere at the Actor's Express Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2016.[5][6]

Nabers' other works include A Swell in the Ground, which premiered at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in 2017 and Welcome to Jesus, which premiered at The American Theater Company in Chicago in 2017, Juniper; Jubilee and The Peterson Show.[7][8][9][10][11]

Television

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Nabers' television writing credits include Bravo's first scripted series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,[12] Lifetime's UnREAL and AMC's Dietland.[13] She is credited as Supervising Producer on the first and second episodes of HBO's Watchmen, winning a Writers Guild Award in 2020.[14][15][16] and was Co-Executive Producer on Netflix's Away.[17] Nabers was a writer on the third season of Atlanta, winning a Peabody Award.[18] In 2021, she signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios.[19] In 2023, Swarm, the series Nabers co-created with Donald Glover, was released on Amazon’s Prime Video.[20] In 2024, Nabers won a NAACP Image Award for Best Limited Series[21] and was nominated for her first Emmy for Best Writing for Limited Series.[22]

Deadline reported that Nabers is in development on her third project for Amazon, a collaboration with Mattel, on a live action Shani Girl series,[23] with Nabers as showrunner.[24]

Works

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Theatre

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  • Juniper; Jubilee[25]
  • Annie Bosh is Missing[26]
  • Serial Black Face[27]
  • A Swell in the Ground[28]
  • Welcome to Jesus[29]
  • The Peterson Show[30]

Television

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Year Title Role(s) Notes
2015 - 2018 Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Story Editor Episode 2x01: Rule #58: Avoid the Douchemobile

Episode 2x02: Rule#77: Don't Blow the Bubble

Episode 2x03: Rule#8: Timing is Everything

Episode 2x05: Rule #72: It's Never Too Late to Be a Mean Girl

Episode 2x06: Rule #25: Beware the Second Chance

Episode 2x08: Rule #79: Labels are for Canned Goods

Episode 2x10: Rule #36: If You Can't Stand the Heat, you're Cooked

Episode 2x11: Rule #118: Let Her Eat Cake

Episode 2x13: Rule #59: "Happily Ever After" Is an Oxymoron

2015-2018 Written by Episode 1x07: Rule #67: Don't Kill the Princess

Episode 2x07: Rule #14: No Means... No

Episode 2x12: Rule #876: Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason

Episode 4x03: Rule #706: Let Them Eat Cupcakes

Episode 5x03: Rule #97: It Takes Two to Stab yourself in the Butt

2017 Co-producer/Written by Episode 3x05: Rule #99: Cook Naked
2016 UnREAL Executive Story Editor Episode 2x01: War

Episode 2x02: Insurgent

Episode 2x03: Guerilla

Episode 2x05: Infiltration

Episode 2x06: Casualty

Episode 2x07: Ambush

Episode 2x08: Fugitive

2016 Executive Story Editor/Written By Episode 2x04: Treason
2018 Dietland Supervising Producer/Teleplay By Episode 1x06: Belly of the Beast
2018 Supervising Producer Episode 1x01: Pilot

Episode 1x02: Tender Belly

Episode 1x03: Y Not

Episode 1x04: F... This

Episode 1x05: Plum Tuckered

Episode 1x07: Monster High

Episode 1x08: Red Fatties

Episode 1x09: Woman Down

Episode 1x10: Bedwomb

2019 Watchmen Supervising Producer Episode 1x01: It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice

Episode 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

2020 Away Co-Executive Producer Episode 1x06: A Little Faith
2021 - 2022 The 45 Rules of Divorce Arabic adaptation of Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
Written by		 الحلقة 1x07: قاعدة #67 إوعي تقتلي الأميرة اللي جواكي
Based on (Episode 1x07: Rule #67: Don't Kill the Princess)

الحلقة 2x07: قاعدة #14 لاء يعني لاء
Based on (Episode 2x07: Rule #14: No Means... No)

الحلقة 2x12: قاعدة #876 مش كل حاجة ليها سبب
Based on (Episode 2x12: Rule #876: Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason)

الحلقة 3x05: قاعدة #99 سيبي نفسك
Based on (Episode 3x05: Rule #99: Cook Naked)

الحلقة 4x03: قاعدة #706 متتنازليش أو ع الأقل متتنازليش كتير
Based on (Episode 4x03: Rule #706: Let Them Eat Cupcakes)

الحلقة 5x03: قاعدة #97 مفيش أحسن م الصراحة
Based on (Episode 5x03: Rule #97: It Takes Two to Stab yourself in the Butt)

2022 Atlanta Written by Episode 3x02: Sinterklaas is Coming to Town

Episode 4x05: Work Ethic!

2023 Swarm Co-Creator

Selected works

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  • Nabers, Janine. "Juniper; Jubilee." Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 33rd Series, edited by Thomas C. Dunn. New York: Samuel French, 2008 ISBN 9780573670367
  • Nabers, Janine. Letters to Kurt, Playscripts Incorporated, 2012 ISBN 9781623844172
  • Nabers, Janine. Decade: Twenty New Plays about 9/11 and Its Legacy, edited by Samual Adamson, London: Nick Hern Books, 2012 ISBN 9781848422308
  • Nabers, Janine. Serial Black Face. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 ISBN 0300211376
  • Nabers, Janine. "Serial Black Face." The Kilroys List: 97 Monologues and Scenes by Female and Trans Playwrights. Volume One, edited by Annah Feinberg for The Kilroys, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017 ISBN 9781559365352

References

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  1. ↑ "The 'Swarm' Creators Wanted to Start Conversation—And They Did". ELLE. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2026-08-07.
  2. 1 2 Alexander, Andrew (August 16, 2016). "'Serial Black Face' revisits Atlanta child murders". AJC. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  3. ↑ "Winners & Finalists | Alliance Theatre". alliancetheatre.org. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  4. ↑ "Annie Bosh is Missing | Steppenwolf Theatre". www.steppenwolf.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  5. ↑ Kozinn, Allan (2014-03-26). "Janine Nabers Wins Yale Drama Series Prize". ArtsBeat. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  6. ↑ "Serial Black Face | Actor's Express". www.actors-express.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  7. ↑ "A SWELL IN THE GROUND - Shows and Events - The Gift Theatre". thegifttheatre.org. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  8. ↑ Jones, Chris (22 October 2017). "Love lives don't get easier after college in 'A Swell in the Ground'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  9. ↑ "Welcome To Jesus - American Theater Company - Chicago". www.theatreinchicago.com. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  10. ↑ Accrocco, John (November 1, 2017). "REVIEW: WELCOME TO JESUS AT AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY". buzznews.net. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  11. ↑ "The Sugar Plum Interview: 3 Questions for Janine Nabers". Sarai Walker. 16 July 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  12. ↑ "Janine Nabers and Victor Lesniewski". The New York Times. 2014-06-22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  13. ↑ Rodriguez, Karla (2023-07-21). "How Janine Nabers Went From Writing for 'Atlanta' to Co-Creating the 'Swarm' Series With Donald Glover". Complex. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  14. ↑ Stedman, Michael Schneider,Cynthia Littleton,Alex (2020-02-02). "WGA Awards: 'Parasite,' 'Jojo Rabbit,' HBO Among Top Winners (Full List)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-08-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Stedman, Michael Schneider,Cynthia Littleton,Alex (2020-02-02). "WGA Awards: 'Parasite,' 'Jojo Rabbit,' HBO Among Top Winners (Full List)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-08-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Schneider, Michael; Littleton, Cynthia; Stedman, Alex (2020-02-02). "WGA Awards: 'Parasite,' 'Jojo Rabbit,' HBO Among Top Winners (Full List)". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  17. ↑ Miller, Hillary (2020). Playwrights on Television: Conversations with Dramatists. Routledge. ISBN 978-0815352235.
  18. ↑ Srour, Yousef (2023-06-14). "'Atlanta' Returns Home for a Final Season That Cements Its Legacy". Variety. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  19. ↑ Goldberg, Lesley (2021-06-30). "'Atlanta' Writer Janine Nabers Inks Amazon Overall Deal". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  20. ↑ Rodriguez, Karla (2023-07-21). "How Janine Nabers Went From Writing for 'Atlanta' to Co-Creating the 'Swarm' Series With Donald Glover". Complex. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  21. ↑ "NAACP Hosts Star-Studded 55th Image Awards | NAACP". naacp.org. 2024-03-16. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  22. ↑ Otterson, Joe (2024-01-16). "Emmy Awards 2023: 'Succession' and 'The Bear' Tie With 6 Wins, 'Beef' Follows With 5 (Winners List)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  23. ↑ Grobar, Matt (2026-08-07). "Janine Nabers Signs With Blue Marble Management (EXCLUSIVE)". Deadline. Retrieved 2026-08-07.
  24. ↑ Otterson, Joe (2025-10-01). "Mattel, Amazon Team on Shani Live-Action TV Series, Janine Nabers Set as Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-08-07.
  25. ↑ "Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival Begins July 15". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
  26. ↑ "Adolescence, Privilege, and Racial Identity in Annie Bosh is Missing". HowlRound Theatre Commons. 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
  27. ↑ alexander, andrew (April 4, 2016). ""Review: "Serial Black Face" takes a complicated view of African-American mothers, daughters"". ARTSATL.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ↑ "In 'A Swell in the Ground,' college ties that linger and change". Chicago Sun-Times. 2017-10-22. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
  29. ↑ Times, Scott C. Morgan, Windy City (2017-11-07). "THEATER REVIEW Welcome to Jesus". Windy City Times. Retrieved 2026-07-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ "The Peterson Show". The Echo Theater Company. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
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