Dael orlandersmith biography
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Dael Orlandersmith
American actress, poet and playwright
Dael Orlandersmith (born Donna Brown, –) is an American actress, poet and playwright. She is known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman.
Early life
[edit]Orlandersmith, born Donna Dael Theresa Orlander Smith Brown in , in New York City's East Harlem. She attended Hunter College but left to attend acting classes at the HB Studio and Actors Studio. She wrote of her work: "There is a theme throughout the work that I writeabout childhood and the sins of the father, the sins of the mother, and how people take on the very thing they don't like about their parents and they become them.” [1]
Career
[edit]- Beauty's Daughter
Her play Beauty's Daughter premiered Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre from January 25, to March 26, Directed by Peter Askin it is a one-woman performance piece. As described by The New York Times reviewer, the show "aims at more than an extended poetry reading. Such plotting as there is follows Diane from her puberty ("I'm a woman now/I am 13 and bleeding in a Harlem living room") to her early 30s." Orlandersmith performs all of the characters by herself "more of a mimic than an actress. But she is a go
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Dael Orlandersmith (Playwright and Performer) first performed Stoop Stories in 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 Her play Monster premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in The Gimmick, commissioned by McCarter Theatre, premiered in their Second Stage OnStage series in and went on to Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Orlandersmith won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick in 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 The Blue Album, in collaboration with David Cale, premiered at Long Wharf Theatre in Bones was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, where it premiered in 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 and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In , Orlandersmith wrote and performed Until the Flood, commissioned b