Dael Orlandersmith

Until the Flood

Dael Orlandersmith

Until the Flood is a New York Times Critic’s Pick Important and timely piece of documentary theatre written in response to Michael Brown’s death Orlandersmith won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play The Gimmick in 1999 She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Yellowman She also received a Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play for Yellowman Other honors include 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 Orlandersmith has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the United States, Europe and Australia.