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DAEL ORLANDERSMITH |
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Nationality: African-American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Judy Boals, Inc |
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 Cafe 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
Plays by Dael Orlandersmith
Beauty's Daughter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Angela Allison | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26442 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | One woman's journey with many obstacles stacked against her. The heroine or "anti-heroine" can choose to be a victim of the violent cards life has dealt her or she can use her poetry and music as a creative means to deal. The audience sees the character's inability and ultimate ability to deal with other people and triumph in the end. | |||||
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Gimmick, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - September, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26443 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Harlem - 10 year old Alexis dreams of being a writer and her friend Jimmy dreams of being an artist. At 15 they go to see Picasso paintings at the Museum of Modern Art and Alexis agrees to pose naked. Jimmy gets a gallery show acquires a white girlfriend and gets into drugs. Alexis life spirals ever downward until she hits rock bottom. | |||||
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Horsedreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rattlestick Theatre | 17 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2601-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133914 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A new play written by and featuring award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Dael Orlandersmith. Horsedreams is a heartbreaking play that explores the breakdown of the family unit as a result of addiction. After his wife, Desiree, dies of an accidental overdose, Loman faces the harsh reality of raising their son, Luka, alone. | |||||
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Liar, Liar | ||
| 1st Produced: | MCC Theater, New York | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122540 | |||
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Monster | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop New York | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26444 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A violent family history passes from one generation to the next. The narrator, a young woman, uses stories, poetry and characters to introduce and juxtapose situations. Through her powerful eyes we witness violence, friendship, alienation, family love and loyalty. | |||||
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My Red Hand My Black Hand | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Wharf Theatre New Haven Connecticut | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26445 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1man [Native American], 2 women [1 black, 1 mixed race] | |||||
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Synopsis: | This play tells the story of one girl's courageous search for belonging and acceptance in the two very distinct cultures that make up her heritage-African-American and Native-American. The play unfolds as the girl describes the past, present and future of her parents' cultures and their fusion into her own. She tells us about the "Red" Tlingit and Lakota parentage of her father, who leaves the reservation to play blues rock in Boston. And the "Black" rural Virginia Background of her mother, who goes to Boston seeking the big-city life. Her parents meet at a dance and fall in love, but not without the complications of prejudice from their families. | |||||
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Raw Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75057 | |||
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Synopsis: | Billy escapes from an abusive father in Ireland and goes to New York to fulfil his dreams of becoming an actor. Years later he sends for his brother, Shane. | |||||
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Stoop Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio Theatre, Washington DC | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc (2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2491-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96125 | |||
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Genre: | series of monologues | |||||
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Synopsis: | Dael Orlandersmith's Stoop Stories are a series of monologues that become hypnotic poetry about people she's watched in New York who pursue the American Dream. Because they are outsiders, losers and dopers, the unseen ones, they sit on their front porch steps to talk, to drink and dream. They never go anywhere, but they travel and take you with them - far beyond Harlem, the East or West Villages, Brooklyn or the Bronx. | |||||
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Yellowman | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26446 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | "Dael Orlandersmith's two-hander is as magnificently acted as it is beautifully written and offers endless insights into the internal racism and oppressive determinism that haunt the African-American community. Two characters have been brought up in South Carolina in the supposedly progressive sixties. Alma is large, dark-skinned and part of a culture where women "tugged the soil right beside the men". Eugene is the lithe son of a lumberman father and light-skinned mother and is teased for being a "high yella" boy. Growing up in a small town where gradations of colour assume monumental importance, Alma and Eugene fall in love, separate and are uneasily re-united. What gives Orlandersmith's play its power is the tension between self-fulfilment and the weight of the past. Alma is bright, smart, ambitious and at one point goes off to study in New York where she moves to the urgent rhythm of the city; yet she can never entirely escape her inherited self-hatred. Equally Eugene, branded a failure by his father and advised by his grandfather "don't marry nothing dark," finds himself trapped by the antique prejudices of the unforgiving past. ", Guardian | |||||
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