Playwright, Confederates
Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project, a three-play cycle that includes Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company); Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre); Detroit ’67 (The Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, National Black Theatre). Additional plays include Pipeline (Lincoln Center); Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre); Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre); Follow Me to Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is the Tony nominated book writer of the new Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre). Dominique is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab and Lark Playwrights Workshop. She has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neil Playwrights Conference and most recently served as co-producer on the Showtime series Shameless (three seasons). Additional awards include Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, two OBIE Awards, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017–18, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellowship. www.dominiquemorisseau.com