Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle) which includes Skeleton Crew, Atlantic Theater Company; Paradise Blue, Signature Theatre; and Detroit ’67, Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and NBT. Her additional plays include Pipeline, Lincoln Center Theatre; Sunset Baby, LAByrinth Theatre; Blood at the Root, National Black Theatre; and Follow Me to Nellie’s, Premiere Stages. She is also the the Tony-nominated book writer on the musical Ain’t Too Proud–The Life and Times of the Temptations. Dominique is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neil Playwrights Conference. Her work has been commissioned by Steppenwolf Theater, Women’s Project, South Coast Rep, People’s Light, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Penumbra Theatre. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless. Her awards include Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, two OBIE Awards, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, being named one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-2018, and a 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. In 2022, Dominique was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor of Detroit.