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Dominique Morisseau. Dominique Morisseau (born March 13, 1978) is an American playwright and actress from Detroit, Michigan. She has written more than nine plays, [1] three of which are part of a cycle titled The Detroit Project. [2] She received a MacArthur Fellowship (also known as the 'Genius Grant') in 2018.
Jan 4, 2016 · Dominique Morisseau Is Telling the Story of Her People. The playwright wants to be a griot for her hometown of Detroit and beyond. Hoots and hollers fill the room as Dominique Morisseau enters New York City’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater for the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Awards. She waves and blushes slightly as she walks down the aisle to her ...
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: to ...
- Alexis Soloski
Feb 13, 2024 · Dominique Morisseau’s Revolutionary Vision. Encountering the work of playwright Dominique Morisseau ( Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, Skeleton Crew, Pipeline, Detroit ...
- Liz Appel
Dec 6, 2021 · For Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau, work isn’t just a creative outlet, it’s a chance to pay homage to her hometown. Morisseau, whose 2018 play Ain’t Too Proud, about Motown’s own Temptations, was nominated for 12 Tonys, including Best Musical (it snagged the award for Best Choreography), says her inspiration comes from Detroit and its music.
- Amy Gill
Dec 11, 2017 · In Dominique Morisseau’s drama Pipeline (the full script of which is published in the December 2017 issue of American Theatre), Nya, a high school teacher at a New York City public school, wrestles with the realization that her teenaged son, Omari, though enrolled in a private school in upstate New York, may be in danger of straying into the “school-to-prison pipeline” that ensnares so ...
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Interview Why Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline Is the Play America Needs Right NowWith her latest work for Lincoln Center Theater, the Obie-winning playwright offers tangible actions to fix ...
