. >> reporter: to bring her story to life, pulitzer prize-winning playwright katori hall timar bullock.ereshwonder how she was able to dream a dream that she didn't see around her and yet this one little rose was able to grow out of the cete. >> reporter: so you're bh from tennessee. >> yeah.cron >> reporter: how does growing up in tennessee inform your writing?i ite more about place than about race. being from the south, we are still dealing with so many intersections of -isms. it's a very complicated place. slavery and inheriting that history has always been a heavy load to bear. but, you know, the south is also just a beautiful place be's a place that i think is shored up byit,s and so, i'm just adamant that i want to see the south represented truthfully, honestly, and loudly, and like unapologetically on the american stage. ♪ ♪ >> you got the gift inside you. that voice... >> reporter: hall also spoke with tina turner about addrhengesrs y t ea ike turner. >> a part of her was like, i don't know if people are really going to sit through me being slapped around, and i was like you went tou