Dael Orlandersmith Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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.
She was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for the play, "Back n Blue Boys/Broken Men" at the Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was nominated for a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for her role in "Stoop Stories", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Yellowman".