Dael Orlandersmith
Playwright, Author
1959 –
Who is Dael Orlandersmith?
Dael Orlandersmith 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.
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- Born
- 1959
New York City - Also known as
- Donna Brown
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Hunter College
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on July 23, 2013
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