Mikaal

Mikaal Sulaiman, originally from Rochester, NY, is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across film, tv, and theatre. Mikaal is a writer, director, sound designer, and composer. As a writer, he is currently in a writer’s room on a new episodic show for A24/Amazon. Also, he most recently collaborated with his older brother, Amir Sulaiman, on a short film called Laying Flowers.:.Setting Fires for which he was the Creative Director and Editor. As theatre deviser he has received artist residencies at Space on Ryder Farm in Upstate New York, UCross Foundation in Wyoming, as well as VoxFest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. As a sound designer he has worked on award winning world premiere productions that include: Thoughts of a Colored Man (Broadway), Rags Parkland (Ars Nova), Fairview (Soho Rep) *Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, and Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), among others. He has received nominations from Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Bay Area Theatre Critics, and Audelco Award. Recently he received the 2021 CTG Sherwood Award and the 2019 Henry Hewes Design Award for excellence in Sound Design.

Mikaal is currently a professor at The Yale School of Drama as Head of the Sound Design Concentration. He attended the University of the Arts receiving a BFA and later studied the Jacques Lecoq approach to avant-garde theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts.

Black Enso, is a podcast that Mikaal hosts and can be found on most podcast platforms.

Moors Noor Media is Mikaal’s production company.