Stoop Stories, written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith, directed by Jo Bonney begins Septmeber 12, 2009 in the Goodman's Owen Theatre.
Photo design by Kelly Rickert.
Dael Orlandersmith (Playwright/Performer) first performed Stoop Stories in 2008 at The Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival and was subsequently produced in 2009 at The Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her play Monster premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. The Gimmick, commissioned by McCarter Theatre, premiered on their Second Stage on Stage and went on to great acclaim at Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at McCarter Theatre in a co-production with The Wilma Theater and Long Wharf Theatre. Orlandersmith premiered a new work in collaboration with David Cale at Long Wharf Theatre called The Blue Album in 2007. Mark Taper Forum commissioned Bones which they will produce in spring 2009. Orlandersmith has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. She is currently developing a play called Horsedreams which premiered at New York Stage and Film last summer. She is also completing work on a commission from Atlantic Theater Company and a memoir called Character. Yellowman and a collection of Orlandersmith's earlier works have been published by Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service. She attended Sundance Institute Theatre Lab for four summers developing new plays. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim and The 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. In 2006, Orlandersmith won a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights Fellowship. She won an OBIE Award for Beauty's Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at The American Place Theatre. Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize Award Finalist and Drama Desk Award Nominee as an actress in and for Yellowman, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2002. She was a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist with The Gimmick in 1999 and won for Yellowman.
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