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York Theatre Workshop, Portland Vintage Books and Dramatists Play
Center Stage in 2016 and the Abbey Service. She attended Sundance
Theatre in Dublin. In 2016, Institute Theatre Lab for four summers
Orlandersmith wrote and performed and is the recipient of a New York
Until the Flood, commissioned by St. Foundation for the Arts Grant, The
Louis Repertory Theatre. It was later Helen Merrill Award for Emerging
produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Playwrights, a Guggenheim and the
Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award
ACT Seattle and Goodman Theatre. for a playwright in mid-career. She is
Orlandersmith has toured extensively the recipient of a Lucille Lortel
with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Foundation Playwrights Fellowship and
Live Poetry) throughout the United an Obie Award for Beauty’s Daughter.
States, Europe and Australia. She is currently working on two
Yellowman and a collection of her commissions.
earlier works have been published by

Actors’ Equity Association was founded
in 1913, and represents more than 45,000
actors and stage managers in the United
States. Equity seeks to advance, promote
and foster the art of live theatre as an
essential component of our society. Equity
negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits,
including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is
affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The
Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.