Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017. Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists. Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and for promoting social justice through her work. Morriseau’s plays often comment on racial, economic and social tensions. Morriseau grew up...
Three provocative dramas, <em>Paradise Blue</em>, <em>Detroit ’67 </em>and <em>Skeleton Crew</em>, make up Dominique Morisseau’s <em>The Detroit Project</em>, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward...
