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Aug 1, 2017 · “I’m a pole of the urgent question around us,” says Morisseau who pushes the audience to confront the school-to-prison pipeline, the expectations of young black men, “young black male rage and...
Dec 11, 2017 · Push and Pull: Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Pipeline’. How the playwright came to write her searing and sweeping play, and why she cares as much about her audience’s dialogue as her own.
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Dec 6, 2021 · For American Theatre Magazine. Photo: Jenny Graham. Playwright Dominique Morisseau showcases Detroit on the world’s top stages. BY LEENA RAO. Photography pro. For Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau, work isn’t just a creative outlet, it’s a chance to pay homage to her hometown.
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Jul 25, 2017 · In Dominique Morisseau’s new play Pipeline, currently playing at Lincoln Center Theater directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, a mother and son wrestle with what has commonly become known as the school-to-prison pipeline of the American education system for young men of color.
Mar 10, 2022 · In 2016, Penumbra Theater and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissioned Dominique Morisseau to write a play as part of the American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. The remit:...
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It explores African-American women’s experiences with segregation in a 1955 Mississippi brothel. Like much of her other work, Morisseau was inspired by her family to write—in this case, by an aunt who ran a brothel for sixty years.
Oct 7, 2017 · October 7, 2017. Hard to imagine a dramatic work more perfect for undergraduate actors or more pertinent to the racial tensions of our times than Dominique Morisseau’s trenchant Blood at the Root, now playing in a riveting production at Howard University.
