Lynn Nottage is an American playwright of extraordinary moral imagination whose unflinching examinations of working-class struggle and marginalized lives have made her the first and only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice.
Defining moments and milestones
Lynn Nottage's trajectory from emerging playwright to two-time Pulitzer Prize winner represents a sustained commitment to dramatizing the lives of working-class and marginalized communities with unflinching specificity. Beginning her career in the early 1990s, she gained recognition through plays staged at Manhattan Theatre Club and other regional theatres before Ruined (2009) established her as a major voice, earning her first Pulitzer and international acclaim. Her second Pulitzer for Sweat (2017) cemented her position as one of the most important American playwrights of her generation, a writer whose work combines rigorous research, moral urgency, and theatrical innovation.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (twice: 2010 for Ruined and 2017 for Sweat), making her the first and only woman to win the prize twice
Brown University
Recordings featuring Lynn Nottage in the Society index
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