2024 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: Zoe Scofield, Princess Grace Award winner (Choreography 2011)
Gant Gaither Theater Honor
Dahlak Brathwaite is an award-winning dramatic auteur: playwright, composer, director, filmmaker, and performer. His work has been presented at BAM, The Kennedy Center, The Apollo, The Wallis, REDCAT, MCA Chicago, and on HBO’s last two seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. He adapted the acclaimed novel Long Way Down into a musical, which recently premiered at The Olney Theater in Maryland. His latest work COMMERCIAL has been developed and presented at the Public Theater. Dahlak has received awards and support from NEFA, the Doris Duke Foundation, The U.S. State Department, and MAP Fund. He is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was awarded the Dean’s Full-Tuition Fellowship, and served as the Assistant Director for the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma!
