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Dael Orlandersmith's Spiritus Will Get Off-Broadway Encore Reading
The solo play, inspired by Dante's Inferno, centers on a woman who reconnects with a Bronx friend now working as a funeral director.
April 06, 2026 By Margaret Hall
Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre will hold an encore reading of Dael Orlandersmith's Spiritus April 13 at the DR2 Theatre.
Orlandersmith will serve as both playwright and reader for this presentation. The solo play, which is inspired by Dante's Inferno, centers on Virgil who, after experiencing a series of losses, reconnects with a Bronx friend now working as a funeral director. Together the pair embark on an unexpected journey that challenges their sense of identity, memory, and what it means to live with purpose.
Orlandersmith is a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose previous plays include Stoop Stories, Black n’ Blue Boys/Broken Men, Horsedreams, Bones, The Blue Album, Yellowman, The Gimmick, Monster, and Forever. She is the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick, and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim, and several other awards and honors. Her play, Forever, was commissioned and performed at the Mark Taper Forum/Kirk Douglas Theatre Fall of 2014, followed by performances at the Long Wharf Theatre Winter 2014/15, New York Theatre Workshop Spring 2015, and Portland Center Stage Winter 2016. Her play Until the Flood was done at St. Louis Repertory fall of 2016. Orlandersmith appeared in Marin Ireland’s play Pre-Existing Condition at the Connelly Theatre, directed by Maria Dizzia . She is currently working on a commission from the Goodman Theatre called Blood Memory for fall 2026.
For more information, visit VineyardTheatre.org.
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