This month we sit down with Tony-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau. A native of Detroit, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in acting, and began her writing career there as well.Since then, her plays have notably premiered at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Atlantic Theater Company and Lincoln Center theater in New York. Her work includes THE DETROIT PROJECT, a trilogy of plays (Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67, and Skeleton Crew) depicting the socio-political status of the city across seven decades, Pipeline, a powerful play that delves into the urgent issue of the “school-to-prison” pipeline, Sunset Baby, a witty look at where the personal and the political collide, and the libretto for the current Broadway musical AIN’T TOO PROUD, for which she was nominated for a Tony award. She has received a number of playwriting awards, including an Obie, two NAACP image awards, and last year, a MacArthur grant.