Dael Orlandersmith presented her first play, Liar, Liar, in New York in 1994, and since then has written several others, including Beauty’s Daughter, which appeared at the American Place Theatre and won an Obie Award in 1995, and Monster, which was presented to critical acclaim at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. She performed her one-woman play The Gimmick at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1999. In the fall of 1999, Orlandersmith began a year in residence at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, to develop her play Trickbabies.