Dael’s plays include Stoop Stories, Black n’ Blue Boys/Broken Men, Horsedreams, Bones, The Blue Album, Yellowman, The Gimmick, Monster, and Forever. Ms. Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee for Yellowman and the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick. Dael is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim, along with several other awards and honors. Her play, Forever, was commissioned and performed at the Mark Taper Forum/Kirk Douglas Theatre Fall of 2014, followed by performances at the Long Wharf Theatre Winter 2014/15, New York Theatre Workshop Spring 2015, and will run at Portland Center Stage Winter 2016. Her play Until the Flood was performed at St. Louis Repertory in Fall of 2016. She is currently working on two commissions for Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Until the Flood was done at Rattlestick Theatre in 2018 and Milwaukee Rep in 2019. It was done also done at Portland Center Stage, ACT Seattle, the Arcola Theatre in London, The Galway Arts Festival at the Druid Theatre, and at the Traverse at Edinburgh Festival, the Schaubruhner Theatre in Berlin, and at the Spoleto Festival In Charleston, South Carolina. Ms. Orlandersmith also worked on a Commission for Rattlestick Theatre, Watching the Watcher, as well as New Age at Milwaukee Rep (directed by Jade king Carroll) and Antonio’s Song / I Was Dreaming of a Son, co-written with Antonio Suarez Edwards and directed by Mark Clement. She is also working on a new work with writer/performer David Cale called You Don’t Know the Lonely One. Her play Spiritus/ Virgil’s Dance was commissioned by Merrimack theatre premiered at CATF Summer Shepherdstown, WV and Rattlestick. Ms. Orlandersmith appeared in Marin Ireland’s play PRE Existing Condition at the Connelly theatre directed by Maria Dizzia . She is currently working on a commission from the Goodman theatre called The Death Chronicles for Fall 2026. In 2020 Ms. Orlandersmith received the Doris Duke award.