Tarell Alvin McCraney

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s plays include The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water & Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet. The Brother/Sister Trilogy was first performed at McCarter Theater in New Jersey and then at The Public Theater in New York. Subsequently the Trilogy played a long run at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and played at a trio of theaters: Marin Theatre Company, ACT, and Magic Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other plays include The Breach (Southern Rep 2007, Seattle Rep 2008), Wig Out! (Sundance Theatre Institute, Royal Court London and Vineyard Theatre New York), Without/Sin (Yale Cabaret 2005), Run Mourner, Run (Yale Cabaret 2005), A Taurian Tale (52nd Street Project 2008), Promise Not to Tell (New World School of the Arts Playwrights Festival 2007), Current Commissions: Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club), Again & Again (Berkeley Rep), American Trade (Royal Shakespeare Company, London). Tarell graduated from the New World School of the Arts High School, The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, and the Yale School of Drama. Tarell was honored with the 2007 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre and a 2007 Whiting Writing Award; named the International Writer-in-Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company 2008-2010; the Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts 2009, Princeton University; the inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award 2009, and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. He is a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami.