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Name
  
Tarell McCraney


Role
  
Playwright

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Born
  
October 17, 1980 (age 43) Miami, Florida, U.S. (
1980-10-17
)

Alma mater
  
DePaul UniversityYale University

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Education
  
Yale University, DePaul University, Yale School of Drama

Awards
  
Whiting Awards, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway

Nominations
  
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

Plays
  
The Brothers, Choir Boy, Wig Out!

Books
  
The Brother/Sister Plays, In the Red and Brown Water, American Trade, Marcus - Or - The Secret of Sweet

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Tarell Alvin McCraney (born October 17, 1980) is an American playwright and actor. He is the incoming chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, effective July 1, 2017. He is also a member of Teo Castellanos/D Projects Theater Company in Miami and in 2008 became RSC/Warwick International Playwright in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In April 2010, McCraney became the 43rd member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble.

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He co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Life and career

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McCraney was born in Liberty City, Florida. He attended the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) in Miami, Florida, receiving the exemplary artist award and the Dean's Award in Theater. While attending NWSA, he also applied to and was awarded by the National YoungArts Foundation (1999, Theater). He matriculated into The Theatre School at DePaul University and received his BFA in acting. In May 2007 he graduated from Yale School of Drama's playwriting program, receiving the Cole Porter Playwriting Award upon graduation. He also is an Honorary Warwick University Graduate.

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As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Tina Landau of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois, David Cromer, and B. J. Jones, artistic director of the Northlight Theatre (where McCraney co-starred in the Chicago premiere of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange), and developed a working relationship with Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne of the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

McCraney's Brother/Sister trilogy is set in the Louisiana projects and explores Yoruba mythology.

Personal life

McCraney is an out gay man.

Plays

  • Head of Passes (Steppenwolf Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater)
  • Choir Boy (Royal Court, Manhattan Theatre Club)
  • American Trade, an adaptation of Hamlet for young people (RSC)
  • Wig Out! (developed at Sundance Theatre Lab produced in New York by the Vineyard Theatre and in London by the Royal Court)

    • The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy

  • The Brothers Size (simultaneously premiered in New York at The Public Theater, in association with the Foundry Theatre, and in London at the Young Vic, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliated Theatre)
  • In The Red And Brown Water (winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, produced at the Alliance Theatre and the Young Vic)
  • Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet

    • Other plays

  • Without/Sin
  • Run, Mourner, Run (adapted from Randall Kenan's short story), both of which premiered at Yale Cabaret. He directed Hamlet for the RSC's Young Shakespeare programme for GableStage in Miami.

    • In the summer of 2006, McCraney, Catherine Filloux and Joe Sutton wrote The Breach, a play on Katrina, the Gulf, and our nation, commissioned by Southern Rep in New Orleans, where it premiered in August 2007 to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy in New Orleans. The Breach also played at Seattle Rep in the winter of 2007.

    Other projects

  • In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, a drama school project that is the inspiration for the 2016 film Moonlight.
  • An adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2013, which puts the play in an 18th century Caribbean setting. Reviews were mixed.

    • Forthcoming projects

    Commissions for the Donmar Warehouse and Berkeley Rep. Choir Boy will receive its American premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club.

    Awards and honors

  • 2007 Whiting Award
  • 2008 London's Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright
  • 2009 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for The Brothers Size
  • 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award
  • 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
  • 2013 MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2017 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
  • 2017 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards American Playwright in Mid-Career

    • References

    Tarell Alvin McCraney Wikipedia
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