Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright that is best known for her Obie Award winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama,Yellowman. Part of her work from the award winning "Beauty's Daughter's" program can be heard as a segment of a September 1996 taping of radio show "This American Life" where Orlandersmith performs "When You Talk About Music" in which she portrays a 31 year old Italian male who meets a black woman at a mutual friends wedding and finds how much he misses musical expression.