| Name |
Dael Orlandersmith |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman. Part of her award-winning Beauty's Daughter's program can be heard as a segment of a September 1996 taping of radio show This American Life; in this segment, Orlandersmith performs "When You Talk About Music", in which she portrays a 31-year-old Italian male who meets a black woman at a mutual friend's wedding and finds how much he misses musical expression. She won the 2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
