Lynn Nottage
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright whose work examines race, poverty, and resilience in forgotten communities. Ruined set her examination of sexual violence in the Congo; Sweat documented the deindustrialization of Reading, Pennsylvania. She is the only American playwright to have won the Pulitzer Prize twice.
Works
- SweatDrama about industrial decline and economic struggle in manufacturing towns
- RuinedPolitical drama set in Congo examining conflict, survival, and women's resilience
- Intimate ApparelPeriod drama about a Black seamstress creating intimate apparel in early 1900s
- Fabulation
- By the Way, Meet Vera StarkComedy about a Black actress researching her Hollywood past in 1933
- Crumbs from the Table of JoyMultigenerational drama tracing African American family history and identity