Lynn Nottage is an American playwright who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2009 for her play Sweat. She is the only woman to date who has won twice. Nottage's work is typically concerned with the lives of marginalized people, namely Black working class people. Most recently (in the 2021/22 season), she had two shows on Broadway: MJ the Musical, and Clyde's. Her work has been produced widely across the United States as well as abroad. In addition to playwrighting, Nottage works as a screenwriter, developing original projects for various networks and shepherding other writers' work into the world through her production company, Market Road Films.
Nottage is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, a PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, a Merit and Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and numerous other accolades. She teaches theatre at Columbia University.
Intimate Apparel is a play by Columbia University Professor of Playwrighting Lynn Nottage. The play is set in 1905 and it tells the story of Esther, a young African American woman who travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a seamstress,...
Best known for plays like Ruined and Sweat, both of which earned her Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, American playwright Lynn Nottage has written a number of plays to great success. Her work typically deals with the difficulties of the lives of...
