Dael Orlandersmith
Dael Orlandersmith (Donna Brown) is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman.
Part of her award-winning Beauty's Daughter's program can be heard as a segment of a September 1996 taping of radio show This American Life; in this segment, Orlandersmith performs "When You Talk About Music", in which she portrays a 31-year-old Italian male who meets a black woman at a mutual friend's wedding and finds how much he misses musical expression.
She won the 2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Awards and nominations
- Awards
- 2003 Drama Desk Award nomination - Outstanding Play, Yellowman[1]
- 2005 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career
References
- ↑ "Drama Desk Nomination 2002-2003". New York, New York: Drama Desk Awards. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
External links
- Dael Orlandersmith at the Internet Movie Database
- Performance
- Stoop Stories - World Premiere at The Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
- New Dramatists
- Ket.org
- Doollee
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