Dael’s plays include Stoop Stories, Black n’ Blue Boys/Broken Men, Horsedreams, Bones, The Blue Album, Yellowman (Drama Desk Award Nominee & Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Gimmick (Winner- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Monster, and Forever. 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 new 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.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Forever	New York Theatre Workshop	05/04/2015	N/A
2	Yellowman	New York City Center/ Stage I	10/22/2002	Alma
3	The Gimmick	New York Theatre Workshop	05/05/1999	N/A
4	Monster	New York Theatre Workshop	10/31/1996	N/A
5	Beauty's Daughter	American Place Theatre	01/25/1995	N/A

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Forever	New York Theatre Workshop	05/04/2015	Conceiver
2	Yellowman	New York City Center/ Stage I	10/22/2002	Playwright
3	The Gimmick	New York Theatre Workshop	05/05/1999	Playwright
4	Monster	New York Theatre Workshop	10/31/1996	Playwright
5	Beauty's Daughter	American Place Theatre	01/25/1995	Playwright

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show	Forever	Actor
			Forever	Conceiver
2	NOMINATED	2016 uAward	Forever	Actor
3	NOMINATED	2003 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play	Yellowman	Actor
4	NOMINATED	2003 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award	Yellowman	Playwright
5	WON	1995 Obie Award, Special Citation	Beauty's Daughter	Playwright