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Psalmayene 24 is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor. Psalm—as his colleagues call him—is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater. Writing credits include Monumental Travesties (Mosaic Theater), Out of the Vineyard (Joe’s Movement Emporium), his autobiographical solo play Dear Mapel (Mosaic Theater), The Blackest Battle (Theater Alliance), and the short film, The Freewheelin’ Insurgents (Arena Stage).

Directing credits include Tempestuous Elements by Kia Corthron (Arena Stage), Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman (Folger Theatre), The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe (Studio Theatre), Good Bones by James Ijames (Studio Theatre), Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play by Richard Hellesen (Ford’s Theatre), Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu (Studio Theatre), Native Son by Nambi E. Kelley (Mosaic Theater), and Word Becomes Flesh—recipient of five 2017 Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding Direction of a Play—by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (Theater Alliance).

His play, Les Deux Noirs (2020 Charles MacArthur Award nomination for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical and Venturous Capital Grant recipient), is inspired by a legendary 1953 confrontation between famed writers Richard Wright and James Baldwin in a Paris café and is published by TRW Plays.