DAEL ORLANDERSMITH

won an Obie Award for Beauty's Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre in 1995. Her play, Monster, premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. The Gimmick premiered at the McCarter Theatre and went on to great acclaim at the Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Yellowman also premiered at the McCarter in a co-production with the Wilma and Long Wharf Theatres. She was a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist in 2002 for Yellowman, which played at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles in 2005. Her play, Stoop Stories, was first performed in 2008 at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar Festival.  Stoop Stories and her new play, Bones, were presented this year as part of Center Theatre Group's DouglasPlus summer programming at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.