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Dominique Morisseau

DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Paradigm  

Dominique Morisseau, a rising star of the playwriting world and recipient of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History takes the audience on a journey to 1967, in the city of Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over much more than the family business. As their pentup feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle of the '67 riots. Following an acclaimed run at The Public Theater in association with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the National Black Theatre

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         Black At Michigan         Blood At The Root         Detroit '67         Follow Me To Nellie's         Love and Nappiness         love.lies.liberation         Made In the D         Night Vision         Paradise Blue         Pipeline         Roses Are Played Out         Skeleton Crew         Socks         Sunset Baby         Third Grade, The         We Play For the Gods
Black At Michigan

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Based on a true story about the campus protests at the University of Michigan

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Blood At The Root

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A black female student sits under a tree on campus - a tree reserved for whites to sit under. White students put nooses on the tree. This angers the black students. Six black male students attack and beat up a gay white student

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Theatre Rhinoceros online     07 Nov 2020

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Detroit '67

Detroit '67
It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over more much more than the family business. As their pent-up feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle of the '67 riots.

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Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     26 Feb 2013

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Classical Theatre of Harlem and the National Black Theatre

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Oberon Books Ltd. (1 May 2013)   

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musical 120 min

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Follow Me To Nellie's

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O'Neill National Playwrights Conference     2010

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Love and Nappiness

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love.lies.liberation

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Made In the D

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Night Vision

Night Vision
Ezra and Anaya see a woman being attacked by a man in a hoodie. They break up the attack and then telephone the police. However their descriptions of the man differ wildly

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Contained in: "Facing Our Truth" published by Samuel French   

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Genre:
Short play

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Paradise Blue

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New York Theatre Workshop    

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Pipeline

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Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son, Omari, opportunities her students will never have. When a controversial incident at his private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and poetry, Dominique Morisseau's (Skeleton Crew, Detroit 66, and the Broadway-bound Ain't Too Proud to Beg) Pipeline brings to light a powerful and important conversation about parenthood, the state of our public school system, and the prison pipeline that claims so many of our inner city youth.

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Roses Are Played Out

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Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew
At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams a reality. Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy.

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Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City     Jan 2016

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Socks

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Sunset Baby

Sunset Baby
Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and now, this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner, is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter Nina. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile his past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all - fatherhood. Sunset Baby is an energised, vibrant and witty look at the point where the personal and political collide. One of the most exciting and distinctive undiscovered voices in America.

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part of Resist !

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Third Grade, The

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This is A program of six new short plays by African American writers, presented As part of the Fire This Time Festival. the plays Are: the Scorpion And the Fox by Jesse Cameron Alick, the Big Crunch or. . .(the eternal return) by Christine Jean Chambers, Exodus by Camille Darby, the Bitter Seraph of Sugar Hill by Marcus Gardley, Breakfast by Yusef Miller, And Third Grade by Dominique Morisseau.

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the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003     21/2011

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We Play For the Gods

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"We Play for the Gods was prompted by the question 'on whose shoulders do we as women theater artists stand?'" says Women's Project Producing Artistic Director Julie Crosby. This question led 14 artists of the Women's Project Lab to Ellen Stewart, the legendary founder of La MaMa who in the 1960s blew open the doors of Dramatic expression and gave voice to an extraordinary and diverse generation of theater artists. Inspired by her words, 'We play for the Gods and in return, they play for us,' this collaborative play was developed at Women's Project over eighteen months, three workshops, abundant good humor, and the occasional mojito." We Play for the Gods is the tale of four ordinary women working in a research institute and one trickster goddess who messes around with their lives as only a deity can.
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Created By: Alexandra Collier, Elizabeth R. English, Charity Ballard, Jessi D. Hill, Andrea Kuchlewska, Manda Martin, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Palmer, Sarah Rasmussen, Mia Rovegno, Melisa Tien, Nicole A. Watson, Stephanie Ybarra, Stefanie Zadravec

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014     01 Jun 2012

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Women's Project

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