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Dael Orlandersmith (Donna Brown) is an American actress, poet and playwright. She is known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman. Early lifeOrlandersmith, born Donna Dael Theresa Orlander Smith Brown in 1959, lived in public housing in New York City's East Harlem. Her mother sent her to a Roman Catholic parochial school, after her father died when she was young. She attended Hunter College but left to attend acting classes at the HB Studio and Actors Studio. She wrote of her work: "There is a theme throughout the work that I write...about childhood and the sins of the father, the sins of the mother, and how people take on the very thing they don’t like about their parents and they become them.” [1]Career
Her play Beauty's Daughter premiered Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre from January 25, 1995 to March 26, 1995. Directed by Peter Askin it is a one-woman performance piece. As described by The New York Times reviewer, the show "aims at more than an extended poetry reading. Such plotting as there is follows Diane from her puberty ("I'm a woman now/I am 13 and bleeding in a Harlem living room") to her early 30's." Orlandersmith performs all of the characters by herself "...more of a mimic than an actress. But she is a good mimic, and in switching from female to male, from Puerto Rican to Italian or Irish, from youth to elderly, she only rarely slips from characterization into caricature."[2] Orlandersmith received the 1994-1995 Obie Award Special Citation for this play.[3] 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.
The play ran at ACT Theatre, Seattle, Washington in January 2001 to February 11, 2001. Misha Berson, reviewing for The Seattle Times wrote: "An imposing, fervent performer-writer, Orlandersmith clearly knows this terrain by heart. It's also the treacherous landscape of her monodrama, The Gimmick, performed to high praise at ACT's Bullitt Cabaret last year. Returning with Monster, Orlandersmith is as compelling an actor as ever. Yet by comparison, this earlier script is not as agile a vehicle for her burning talents and concerns as The Gimmick.... As in The Gimmick, the destruction of innocents is a primary theme for Orlandersmith."[5]
The Gimmick was produced Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop from April 16, 1999 in previews, officially on May 5, 1999 to May 23, 1999, directed by Chris Coleman.[6] The play was first produced at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey on February 28, 1998, performed by Orlandersmith and directed and conceived by Peter Askin. The play was next performed at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut on October 27, 1998. The play was written with the support of the Sundance Theatre.[7] The Gimmick is a one-woman piece and, according to Playbill, is about "two childhood friends from East Harlem. Together they dream of careers as artists and the elusive gimmick that will take them out of their current surrounding into the life they desire."[8] Orlandersmith received a Special Commendation for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1999-2000 for The Gimmick. [9]
Yellowman premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in October 2002 and was commissioned by McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Orlandersmith won the 2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Yellowman, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[10] The two main characters in the play, Alma, a dark skinned middle aged woman, and Eugene, a light skinned middle aged man live in Coastal South Carolina in the Gullah region. Yellowman focuses on the issue of colorism in the black community through the character's love story.
The play ran at the Long Wharf Theatre Stage II (New Haven, Connecticut), from January 8, 2015 to February 1, 2015.[16]
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References1. ^Brennan, Carol. "Orlandersmith, Dael 1959–. Contemporary Black Biography. 2004" Encyclopedia.com, accessed August 27, 2015 2. ^Hampton, Wilborn. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/07/theater/theater-review-growing-up-talented-in-harlem-poet-s-tour.html?pagewanted= "Theater Review. Growing Up Talented In Harlem: Poet's Tour"] The New York Times, February 7, 1995 3. ^" 'Beauty's Daughter' Listing" lortel.org, accessed August 27, 2015 4. ^"'Monster' Listing" lortel.org, accessed August 27, 2015 5. ^Berson, Misha. "'Monster' evokes evil social forces", Seattle Times, January 23, 2001 6. ^" 'The Gimmick' Listing" lortel.org, accessed August 27, 2015 7. ^Orlandersmith, Dael. "Script, The Gimmick", The Gimmick: And Other Plays, Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2003, {{ISBN|0822218836}}, p. 8 8. ^Simonson, Robert. "Dael Orlandersmith's 'Gimmick' Opens at NY Theater Workshop May 4" playbill.com, May 3, 1999 9. ^"Finalists By Decade, 1999-2000" blackburnprize.org, accessed August 2015 10. ^Hernandez, Ernio. "'Yellowman' Writer Dael Orlandersmith Wins Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize" playbill.com, February 26, 2003 11. ^Bacalzo, Dan. "Rattlestick Extends Dael Orlandersmith's Horsedreams Through December 17", "TheatreMania.com", December 5, 2011 12. ^Saltzman, Simon. "A CurtainUp Review. 'Horsedreams'" curtainup.com, November 14, 2011 13. ^Gray, Margaret. "'Forever,' a harrowing memoir with no Hollywood ending" Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2014 14. ^Purcell, Carey. "Dael Orlandersmith Will Explore Her Legacy in New Play 'Forever' at NYTW" playbill.com, March 18, 2015 15. ^"'Forever' Listing" lortel.org, accessed August 27, 2015 16. ^1 Minor, E. Kyle. "Review: Dael Orlandersmith’s ‘Forever’ conjures spirits to artfully tell how she saved her soul" New Hampshire Register, January 8, 2015 17. ^http://www.repstl.org/ignite 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dramadesk.com/nominations_2003.html|title=Drama Desk Nomination 2002-2003|publisher=Drama Desk Awards|location=New York, New York|accessdate=2009-11-25|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20080704130602/http://www.dramadesk.com/nominations_2003.html|archivedate=2008-07-04|df=}} External links
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