Lynn Emergency Days

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Lynn Nottage (2011)

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American playwright .

In 2009, her play Ruined won both the Joseph Jefferson Award and the New York Critics' Circle Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Theater . She received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Theater for Sweat .

Life

After attending school, she studied at The High School of Music & Art and Brown University and graduated in 1986. After completing further studies at the Yale School of Drama, she began writing plays a few years later, which were premiered and performed at various off-Broadway theaters such as Playwrights Horizons . In 1999 she received a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Arts / Theater Communications Group (NEA / TCG Fellowship) as financial support .

For her piece Intimate Apparel , which premiered in 2003 , she received the 2004 New York Critics' Circle Award for best play. In 2007 she received a MacArthur Fellowship , a five-year scholarship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation . Her biggest success to date was the drama Ruined , for which she received both the Joseph Jefferson Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2009.

In 2017 she received another Pulitzer Prize for Sweat . Also in 2017 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2018 .

Dramas

  • 1993: Poof!
  • 1998: Crumbs From The Table Of Joy
  • 1998: Mud, River, Stone
  • 2002: Becoming American
  • 2002: Las Meninas
  • 2002: Snapshot
  • 2004: The Antigone Project
  • 2005: Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
  • 2005: Por'Knockers
  • 2006: Give Again?
  • 2006: Point of Review
  • 2008: By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
  • 2010: The Children's Monologue
  • 2011: The Odds
  • 2015: Sweat

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Emergency days, Lynn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City