ABSTRACT

Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) moved to Broadway after a sold out run at The Public Theater. It premiered at and was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival American Revolutions History Cycle/Arena Stage. Other productions include: By The Way , Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy , Las Meninas , Mud , River , Stone , Por’knockers, Antigone Project, and POOF!.