Dael Orlandersmith

Dael Orlandersmith

Dael Orlandersmith (Donna Brown) 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.

Awards and nominations

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Drama Desk Nomination 2002-2003". New York, New York: Drama Desk Awards. http://www.dramadesk.com/nominations_2003.html. Retrieved 2009-11-25. 

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