the composer Terence Blanchard. It was premiered by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on June 15, 2019, and opened the 2021–2022 Metropolitan Opera season, becoming that institution's first opera by an African-American composer. Personal life Lemmons has been married to actor and director Vondie Curtis-Hall since 1995. The couple have four children, including actor Henry Hunter Hall. Lemmons says she is primarily an artist: "I don't wake up every day saying I'm a black woman because it's too given, but I wake up every day feeling like an artist and I feel I'm an artist". Filmography As director As actress Awards and nominations Further reading Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema. Harlem Moon. 2003. Hurd, Mary G. Women Directors and their Films, Praeger Publishers, 2007. References External links 1961 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from St. Louis African-American actresses African-American film directors African-American screenwriters American opera librettists American television actresses American women film directors American women screenwriters English-language film directors Film directors from Missouri Living people Screenwriters from Missouri Tisch School of the Arts alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Women opera librettists