Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage is is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for the musical MJClyde’s (Second Stage) and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature). Other work includes the musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic); Mlima’s Tale (The Public); Sweat (Pulitzer, Obie, Evening Standard Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award); Ruined (Pulitzer, Obie, Lortel, NY Drama Critics’ Circle, AUDELCO, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and NYDCC). TV: Writer/Producer of She's Gotta Have It (Netflix), Consulting Producer on Dickinson (Apple TV+). Awards: PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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