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Dominique Morisseau (born March 13, 1978) is an American playwright and actress from Detroit, Michigan. She has written more than nine plays, three of which are part of a cycle titled The Detroit Project. 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. Print. Tweet. Email. By Suzy Evans. Hoots and hollers fill the room as Dominique Morisseau enters New York City’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater for the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Awards.
Feb 13, 2024 · We spoke with Morisseau about how every character is on the brink of their own revolution, theater as a form of activism, and healing untended wounds as a path to liberation.
- Liz Appel
Mar 10, 2022 · Her new play, “Confederates,” straddles two eras, exploring what liberation means to a present-day academic and an enslaved woman in the 1860s. Dominique Morisseau at the Signature Theater in...
- Alexis Soloski
Dec 6, 2021 · 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. Morisseau, whose 2018 play Ain’t Too Proud, about Motown’s own Temptations, was nominated ...
- Amy Gill
Dec 2, 2021 · So when Morisseau learned that Black women on the creative team of her play “Paradise Blue” (which recently opened at Geffen Playhouse) had been verbally abused during the production, the ...
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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.
