Tarell Alvin McCraney

Tarell is best known for his trilogy The Brothers Sisters Plays which includes In the Red and Brown Water. That play received its world premiere in the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition at the Alliance Theatre. Other plays include Wig Out, The Breach (written with Catherine Filloux and Joe Sutton), and Head of Passes, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago. Tarell is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, The Theater School at DePaul University, and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. He is an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, an ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, an artist in residence at the Public Theater, New York, in residence at New Dramatist Playwright Center, New York and a founding member of Teo Castellanos/D Projects in Miami.