Tarell Alvin McCraney

He co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own play, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

He also wrote the screenplay for the 2019 film High Flying Bird and 2019 television series David Makes Man.

While attending NWSA, he also applied to and was awarded an honorable mention by the National YoungArts Foundation (1999, Theater).

As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Tina Landau of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois, David Cromer, and B. J. Jones, artistic director of the Northlight Theatre (where McCraney co-starred in the Chicago premiere of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange), and developed a working relationship with Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne of the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

[16] In the summer of 2006, McCraney, Catherine Filloux and Joe Sutton wrote The Breach, a play on Katrina, the Gulf, and American society, commissioned by Southern Rep in New Orleans, where it premiered in August 2007 to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy in New Orleans.

A reading at Elliott Bay Books, Seattle , Washington, co-presented with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, in association with Seattle Rep's staging of The Breach , a play based on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. At right, New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose , author of 1 Dead in Attic . To his right are Tarell Alvin McCraney, Catherine Filloux , and Joe Sutton , co-authors of The Breach .