1. Joan Allen
  2. Kevin Anderson
  3. Alana Arenas
  4. Randall Arney
  5. Kate Arrington
  6. Ian Barford
  7. Robert Breuler
  8. Gary Cole
  9. Kathryn Erbe
  10. K. Todd Freeman
  11. Frank Galati
  12. Francis Guinan
  13. Moira Harris
  14. Jon Michael Hill
  15. Tim Hopper
  16. Tom Irwin
  17. Ora Jones
  18. Terry Kinney
  19. Tina Landau
  20. Martha Lavey
  21. Tracy Letts
  22. John Mahoney
  23. John Malkovich
  24. Mariann Mayberry
  25. Tarell Alvin McCraney
  26. James Vincent Meredith
  27. Laurie Metcalf
  28. Amy Morton
  29. Sally Murphy
  30. Austin Pendleton
  31. Jeff Perry
  32. William Petersen
  33. Yasen Peyankov
  34. Martha Plimpton
  35. Rondi Reed
  36. Molly Regan
  37. Anna D. Shapiro
  38. Eric Simonson
  39. Gary Sinise
  40. Lois Smith
  41. Rick Snyder
  42. Jim True-Frost
  43. Alan Wilder

Member Profiles

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Biography

McCraney was born and raised in Liberty City, the inner city area of Miami, Florida. He graduated from the New World School of the Arts High School, with the Exemplary Artist Award and the Dean’s Award in Theater in 1999, matriculated into the Theater School at DePaul University in Chicago graduating with the Sarah Siddons Award and a BFA in Acting 2003. He attended the British American Drama Academy (BADA) Mid-Summer at Oxford, studying Shakespeare with master actors and teachers from the Royal Shakespeare Company and around the UK. His Masters Degree in Fine Art is from the Yale School of Drama in playwriting 2007; he received the Cole Porter Award upon graduating. He is a member of New Dramatists and Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami.

Watch & Listen

  1. Theatrical Essays

    Theatrical Essays

  2. The Brother/Sister Plays in Rehearsal

    The Brother/Sister Plays in Rehearsal

  3. Getting to Know Playwright Tarell McCraney

    Getting to Know Playwright Tarell McCraney

  4. Playwright Tarell McCraney on His Trilogy

    Playwright Tarell McCraney on His Trilogy

  5. In the Red and Brown Water in Production

    In the Red and Brown Water in Production

  6. The Brothers Size/Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet in Production

    The Brothers Size/Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet in Production

  7. Playwright Tarell McCraney on Ensemble Work

    Playwright Tarell McCraney on Ensemble Work

  8. Behind the Scenes at The Brother/Sister Plays B-Roll Shoot

    Behind the Scenes at The Brother/Sister Plays B-Roll Shoot

  9. Playwright Tarell McCraney on The Old and The New

    Playwright Tarell McCraney on The Old and The New

  10. Playwright Tarell McCraney on Chicago

    Playwright Tarell McCraney on Chicago

  11. Tarell Alvin McCraney - The 43rd Member of Steppenwolf

    Tarell Alvin McCraney - The 43rd Member of Steppenwolf's Ensemble

  12. <i>HEAD OF PASSES</i> in Production

    HEAD OF PASSES in Production

  13. <i>HEAD OF PASSES</i> Audience Reaction Video

    HEAD OF PASSES Audience Reaction Video

  14. <i>HEAD OF PASSES</i> Montage

    HEAD OF PASSES Montage

Credits & Awards


Theatre

In the summer of 2006, McCraney, Catherine Filloux and Joe Sutton wrote The Breach, commissioned by Southern Rep in New Orleans, premiered in 2007 to mark the two-year anniversary of the tragedy in New Orleans. Also played at Seattle Rep in the winter of 2007. Other plays include Wig Out! (developed at Sundance Theatre Lab, produced in New York by the Vineyard Theatre and in London by the Royal Court), Without/Sin and Run, Mourner, Run (adapted from Randall Kenan’s short story), both of which premiered at Yale Cabaret.

Awards

McCraney was honored with the 2007 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Vineyard Theater and a 2007 Whiting Writing Award. The Young Vic production of The Brothers Size was nominated for an Outstanding Achievement by an Affiliate Theater Olivier Award in London, UK. He has also been 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 and a seven-year-residency at New Dramatist Center in New York, NY. He is a member of Teo Castellanos/D Projects in Miami.

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