Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project , which includes the plays Skeleton Crew , Paradise Blue , and Detroit '67 . Additional plays include Pipeline , Sunset Baby , Blood at the Root , Follow Me To Nellie's , Confederates , Bad Kreyòl , and the Broadway musical Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations , for which she earned a Tony nomination. She is currently developing Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical . Morisseau is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Women's Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. She also served as co-producer on the Showtime series Shameless (3 seasons). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Steinberg Playwright Award, the NBTF August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the MacArthur GeniusGrant.