Dominique Morisseau's work includes Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Life and Times of the Temptations; Sunset Baby; and The Detroit Project: a three-play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit, Morisseau's hometown (Paradise Blue, Detroit '69, and Skeleton Crew). She has been awarded the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Spirit of Detroit Award, a PoNY Fellowship, the Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, and two Obie Awards.
Powerful, passionate, and intelligent.-- Village Voice This emotionally harrowing drama raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty, and the state of American education.-- Variety This is a writer who has a flawless ear for the way kids see the world and their ability to navigate it with surgical eloquence.-- Deadline Pipeline showcases an American playwright in full blaze.-- Huffington Post If Dominique Morisseau wasn't already established as one of the most exciting theater voices that have emerged in this young century, Pipeline should surely confirm that status.-- BroadwayWorld