New Dramatists: Dael Orlandersmith

	Dael Orlandersmith c/o Judy Boals 307 West 38th Street, #812 New York, NY 10018 212-500-1424 Fax: 212-500-1426 Agent Email: info@judyboals.com Email: newdramatists@newdramatists.org

Dael Orlandersmith won an OBIE Award for BEAUTY’S DAUGHTER, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre. Film and television credits include Hal Hartley’s AMATEUR, an episode OF SPIN CITY and the film GET WELL SOON with Courtney Cox. Dael has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café throughout the US, Europe and Australia. In November 1996, she premiered MONSTER at NYTW and appeared in ROMEO AND JULIET at Williamstown. Dael has attended Sundance theatre Festival Lab four summers, developing new plays. THE GIMMICK, commissioned by the McCarter Theatre, premiered on their Second Stage on Stage and went on to great acclaim at the Long Wharf Theatre and NYTW. YELLOWMAN was commissioned by and premiered at the McCarter in a co-production with the Wilma and Long Wharf Theatres; it was produced at ACT in Seattle and the Manhattan Theatre Club in Fall 2002. She’s currently finishing her first novel and is starting work on a new play, commissioned by the Wilma. Vintage Books recently published a collection of her plays. Dael was a Susan Smith Blackburn Award Finalist in 1999 and is the recipient of a NYFA Grant and The Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award. Last year, she was a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist for YELLOWMAN.

YELLOWMAN THE GIMMICK BEAUTY’S DAUGHTER MONSTER
_{dael orlandersmith} YELLOWMAN Drama Light-Skinned Black man, Black Woman Two-character play where both actors play other actors—deals with internal racism between light and dark skinned Blacks. Workshopped at the Sundance Theatre Lab; first produced at the McCarter Theatre in a co-production with The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia and the Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut; Seattle’s ACT, and MTC in the fall of 2002. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2003.
_{dael orlandersmith} THE GIMMICK Drama, One Woman Solo Show Young Alexis finds refuge from the brutal reality of the streets among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming an American writer in Paris like James Baldwin. Originally produced by McCarter Theatre, in Princeton, New Jersey in 1998; presented at Long Wharf Theatre in 1998; and first produced in New York by the New York Theatre Workshop 1999. This play was developed in part with the support of the Sundance Theatre. Published by Random House, Inc., New York.
_{dael orlandersmith} BEAUTY’S DAUGHTER Drama, One Woman Solo Show Tough-talking Diane yearns to free herself from the soul-deadening netherworld of her ghetto neighborhood. Premiere at the American Place Theatre in 1995. Published by Random House, Inc., New York.
_{dael orlandersmith} MONSTER Drama, One Woman Solo Show Theresa imagines a life among her idols in the rock-‘n’-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan’s Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem. Originally produced by New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. Published by Random House, Inc., New York.



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