TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY
Midsummer in Oxford 2005
Tarell won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight, based on his play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. He is best known for his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet which have been performed at the McCarter Theatre, The Public Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre, and the Young Vic (Olivier Award nomination) in London. Tarell has received the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, the inaugural NY Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.