About

Peppur (The HOT One) is an international writer, producer and educator who strives to live her voice and inspires others to do the same.

In 2019, Peppur Chambers created her company Pen and Peppur (www.penandpeppur.com) where she ghostwrites books for other aspiring authors and offers copywriting and editing services to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Pen and Peppur is also the name of her blog, where she tells stories of heroes, including her own.

Peppur is the creator of women’s lifestyle brand, Brown Betties ™ which includes two published books, Harlem’s Awakening and Harlem’s Last Dance (Spaceboy Books, Amazon), an award-winning webseries (Brown Betties Guide: How to Look For Love In All The Wrong Places), women’s empowerment workshops (Be Your Own Bettie), and a dinner-theater show (“Harlem’s Night: A Cabaret Story”) which started it all.

Her most recent plays, Unexplained Infertility and F/K/A Meridian were finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (2021, 2022 – top 15% finalist, respectively). F/K/A Meridian was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. Additionally, she wrote and performed an interactive one woman show at the Chandler Museum, titled: From Where to Here: 1930s Migration in Chandler, AZ.

An alum of Moving Arts MADLab, Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, and Antaeus Playwrights Lab member, she uses her voice to amplify women’s issues, social justice and love. Her commissioned radio plays The Fire In-Between, (LA’s 1933 Griffith Park fire), End of the Line (human trafficking) and The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth (reparations) can be found wherever you listen to podcasts. Her work on The Boll Weevil garnered an NEA grant to Lower Depth theater; six more episodes are currently in production. Her plays For the Love of You, House Rules, The Build UP, Dick & Jayne Get a Life and one-woman show, Harlem’s Awakening: Storytelling Live have been produced in LA and Prague.

Peppur has also directed film and theater. Her most recent film Ownership (writer/co-producer) about enslavement and reparations is on the festival circuit. Her film Do Something (director, co-writer/producer), about protest and social justice is award-winning and can be found on Tubi.com. She is currently in production on Bastard (director/writer/co-producer), which is her response to the overturning of Roe v Wade.   

Her original plays “House Rules”, “The Build UP”, “Dick & Jayne Get A Life” and her one-woman show based on her book, “Harlem’s Awakening: Storytelling Live” (nominated for performer award) have been produced in Los Angeles and Prague.

Peppur appeared on CBS News This Morning, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Talk 1380 WAOK discussing “Knowing Your NO” about sexual harassment. This experience has led her to begin writing a book on using your voice.

As an educator, Peppur taught journalism at Prague College and has taught drama and ESL classes to adults and children. She has been a guest speaker on career and journey to both college and high-school students, and ASU Creative Entrepreneur program. Additionally, she has developed various workshops around creative writing, acting and empowerment. She has presented at ASU J. Orin Edson Institute Authorpreneur events, PHX Works, The Pan African Film Festival, Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) Festival, The American School of the Hague (Netherlands) and many others.

Known affectionately as “The Hot One”, Peppur is a three-time valedictorian and record-holding athlete at Marquette University who has been inducted into the Kenosha Athletic Hall of Fame; she’s an award-winning actor and singer who has met Oprah and Barbara Bush and danced for thousands as a former World Champion Chicago Bulls Luv-a-Bull dancer.

A Mid-Western girl at heart, Peppur is a proud aunt, a dog mom to rescues Molly and Vivian, and now lives in Chandler, AZ with her husband, Matt after 15 years in Los Angeles.

www.peppurchambers.com