Lynn Nottage is a double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and
screenwriter. Her plays include: Clyde's; Mlima's Tale; Sweat
(winner of the Pulitzer Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Ruined
(winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Intimate Apparel; Fabulation;
Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone;
Por'knockers and POOF!
Nottage was the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished
Playwright Award, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, the
Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote
Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for Ruined), the Lee
Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other
honours include the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, the
National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award,
the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels
Award, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the
Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for
the Arts.
She is a co-founder and producer at Market Road Films LLC, a film
production company.
'Marvellous... quietly subversive, its recovery of lost lives makes
this a defining piece of American drama'
*Observer*
'Finely wrought... [a] play tinged with love, warmth and
lightness'
*WhatsOnStage*
'Tender, illuminating... this warm, rich, complex tale will stay in
the memory for a long time to come'
*The Times*
'An exceptionally gifted playwright'
*New York Times*
'A thing of beauty'
*Los Angeles Times*
'Nottage writes so well about work... each line sharpens a
character or sighs the tale forward... tremendous'
*Guardian*
'Exquisite... devastating... beautifully crafted... Rarely has
someone brushing a hair from someone else's jacket been so
exquisitely sexy'
*Telegraph*
'Compelling and utterly beautiful... a play where a delicate
embroidery of words creates a rich tapestry that envelops an
audience in the strands of its storytelling... truly
entrancing'
*WhatsOnStage*
'A gorgeous lyrical tapestry full of heartfelt, delicately
melodramatic twists... Nottage cherishes quiet humanity first and
foremost'
*Broadway World*
'An utterly gorgeous gem of a play... a drama so rich and
compelling that you become invested, heart and soul... a perfectly
crafted show: not a stitch wasted'
*London Theatre*
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