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Dael Orlandersmith

Dael Orlandersmith (Playwright and Performer) first performed Stoop Stories in 2008 at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and Apollo Theater’s Salon Series; Washington, D.C.’s Studio Theatre produced its world premiere in 2009. Her play Monster premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. The Gimmick, commissioned by McCarter Theatre, premiered in their Second Stage OnStage series in 1998 and went on to Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Orlandersmith won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick in 1999. Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at McCarter Theatre in a co-production with The Wilma Theater and Long Wharf Theatre. Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play for Yellowman in 2002. The Blue Album, in collaboration with David Cale, premiered at Long Wharf Theatre in 2007. Bones was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, where it premiered in 2010. She wrote and performed the solo memoir play Forever at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the Long Wharf, New York Theatre Workshop, Portland Center Stage in 2016 and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 2016, Orlandersmith wrote and performed Until the Flood, commissioned by St. Louis Repertory Theatre. It was later produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, ACT Seattle and Goodman Theatre. Orlandersmith has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Yellowman and a collection of her earlier works have been published by Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service. She attended Sundance Institute Theatre Lab for four summers and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim and the 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights Fellowship and an Obie Award for Beauty’s Daughter. She is currently working on two commissions.
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  • Home
  • About
    • Meet The Company >
      • Marissa
      • SheaLin
      • Khadijah
      • Ynika
      • Zaynee
      • Betty
    • FOTC BOARD
    • 2023 SEASON >
      • Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea
      • What to Send Up When It Goes Down
      • Exception to the Rule
      • Exit Strategy
    • 2022 SEASON >
      • Yellowman >
        • Yellowman Program >
          • MEET THE CAST >
            • Tanisha L. Pyron
            • Yasir Muhammad
            • Camriss Brown
          • PRODUCTION TEAM
          • DAEL ORLANDERSMITH
      • Dirt, Ash, Dead Tree >
        • PROGRAM-DADT >
          • MEET THE CAST >
            • Gregory Miller
            • Ryan Stapleton
            • Jessica Krolik
            • Adam Nyhoff
            • Teddy Huff
          • PRODUCTION TEAM
          • Jarrett McCreary
      • Jar the Floor >
        • PROGRAM-JAR THE FLOOR >
          • PRODUCTION TEAM
          • DIRECTOR
          • CHERYL L. WEST
      • Youth New Play Project >
        • Program: Youth New Play Project >
          • About the Cast and Crew
    • 2021 Season
    • 2017-2018 Season
    • 2016-2017 Season
    • 2015-2016 Season
    • Past Shows >
      • Been Lovin You-July 2015
      • CHAIN-Oct. 2015
      • The Mountaintop-JAN 2016
      • Dreamgirls-2016
      • 2016-TK New Play Festival
      • THE COLORED MUSEUM
      • Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine 2021 >
        • Fabulation Program >
          • MEET THE CAST >
            • Ynika Yuag
            • Khadijah Brown
            • Jerome M. Jones
            • Zaynee Hobdy
            • Ron Ware
            • Jayla Smith
            • Charles Curtis Sanders
            • Elizabeth J. Taylor
            • Michael David Arnold
          • PRODUCTION TEAM
          • LYNN NOTTAGE
      • I AM GRACE >
        • PLAYWRIGHT
        • DIRECTOR
        • MEET THE CAST >
          • Aija Hodges
          • Khadijah Brown
          • Marc Wilson
          • Derek Miller
          • Michael David Arnold
          • Nicki Poer
          • Bri Edgerton
        • SHOW SPONSORS
      • PIPELINE PROGRAM >
        • DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU
        • CREATIVE TEAM
        • MEET THE CAST >
          • SHEALIN
          • DELANTI
          • MICHAEL
          • MIKAELA
          • SANDY
          • YASIR
      • SMOLDERING FIRES PROGRAM >
        • MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT
        • MEET THE DIRECTOR
        • MEET THE CAST >
          • Zaynee Hobdy
          • JAHLEEL
          • MELINDA
          • LARS
  • Tickets
  • Auditions
    • Audition Show Details
    • Auditions-Yellowman
    • Auditions-Dirt, Ash, Dead Tree
    • Auditions-Jar the Floor
    • Auditions-Our Voices Project
  • Contact
    • PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
    • APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
  • Blog
  • SENSORY FRIENDLY
  • COVID PROTOCOL