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About Forever

On January 23, celebrated playwright and performer Dael Orlandersmith headlines the B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·’s snap festival Workshop with an uplifting autobiographical exploration of the family we are born into and the family we choose. Forever draws from Orlandersmith’s own pilgrimage to the famed Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris — the final resting place of legendary artists such as Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. At the graveside of these timeless artists, Orlandersmith finds unexpected grace in a gripping tale of the legacy a daughter inherits from her mother. 

About Dael Orlandersmith

Dael Orlandersmith is an acclaimed playwright known for works such as Stoop Stories, Yellowman and Until the Flood. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee, and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick. Her honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, Doris Duke grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Orlandersmith’s play Forever premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and was subsequently performed at venues including Long Wharf, New York Theatre Workshop and Portland Center Stage. Until the Flood debuted at St. Louis Repertory and has since been staged at numerous theaters, including the Arcola Theatre in London. She’s worked on commissions for Rattlestick Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, including Watching the Watcher and Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son, and collaborated with David Cale and Robert Falls on You Don’t Know the Lonely One.