Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an

American playwright whose work often focuses on the Lynn Nottage
experience of working-class people, particularly
working-class people who are Black. She has received
the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play
Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She was the
first (and remains the only) woman to have won the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times.[1]

Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius"

Fellowship and was included in Time magazine's 2019
list of the 100 Most Influential People.[2] She is
currently a professor of playwriting at Columbia
University and an artist-in-residence at the Park
Avenue Armory.

Born November 2, 1964

Early and personal life Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation Playwright, professor
Lynn Nottage was born on November 2, 1964, in
Education Brown University (AB)
Brooklyn, New York.[3][4] Her mother Ruby Nottage
Yale University (MFA)
was a schoolteacher and principal; her father Wallace
was a child psychologist. She went to Saint Ann's Notable Pulitzer Prize for Drama
awards (2009, 2017)
School for elementary school before graduating from
Obie Award
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[5] While in high
school, she wrote her first full-length play, The Darker Spouse Tony Gerber
Side of Verona, about an African-American Children 2
Shakespeare company traveling through the South.

She attended Brown University (A.B., 1986) and the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A., 1989). After
graduation, Nottage worked in Amnesty International's press office for four years.[6] More recently,
Nottage has received honorary degrees from Brown (D.F.A., 2011), the Juilliard School and Albright
College.

Nottage is married to filmmaker Tony Gerber, with whom she has two children, Ruby Aiyo and Melkamu
Gerber.

Career
Nottage's plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world.

Plays

Intimate Apparel
One of her best-known plays is Intimate Apparel.

In 1905 New York, Esther, a Black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women, and sews intimate
apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. One by one, the other denizens of
the boarding house marry and move away, but Esther remains, lonely and longing for a husband and a
future. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she's saved to open a beauty parlor where
Black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for.

Co-commissioned and produced at Baltimore's Center Stage, it premiered in February 2003[7] and South
Coast Repertory.[8] The Off-Broadway production at Roundabout Theatre Company opened in 2004,
starring Viola Davis, and receiving critical acclaim. It received the 2004 AUDELCO Viv Award for
Playwriting; AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee) recognizes and honors excellence in Black
theatre. Intimate Apparel has since been commissioned by the MET / Lincoln Center to be adapted into
an opera, and will be composed by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Since 2004, Intimate Apparel has become one of the most produced plays in America.

Ruined
Ruined dramatizes the plight of Congolese women surviving civil war. Set in a small mining town in
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ruined follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman protecting and
profiting from the women she shelters.The play deals with the role of women in war and the societal
stigma around Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

It premiered in 2007 in the Goodman Theatre (Chicago) New Stages Series,[9] and transferred to Off-
Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in February 2009.[10] Ruined was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. Ruined also received the 2009 AUDELCO Viv Award for Dramatic Production of the
Year.

On May 13, 2009, Nottage spoke at a public reception in Washington, D.C. following a United States
Senate Foreign Relations joint subcommittee hearing entitled "Confronting Rape and Other Forms of
Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones," with case studies on the Democratic Republic of Congo and
Sudan.[11]

On October 12, 2009, Nottage spoke at the United Nations as part of the Exhibit CONGO/WOMEN
Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo.

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong
African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white
Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. When both women land roles in the same
Southern epic, the story behind the camera leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy.

It premiered Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre on May 9, 2011, with direction by Jo Bonney.[12]
The play is a "funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood."[13] The play was nominated
for the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play.[14] The play ran at the Geffen Playhouse in Los
Angeles in September 2012, starring Sanaa Lathan, who played the role of the maid who becomes a stage
star.[15]

Sweat
Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs
while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their
trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

Nottage received a commission from Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Arena Stage. The play that she
wrote as a result, Sweat, was presented at the festival in Ashland, Oregon from July 29, 2015, to October
31, 2015, directed by Kate Whoriskey.[16][17] The play takes place in Reading, Pennsylvania, and
involves steel workers who have been locked out of their factory workplace.[18] The play was produced at
the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) from January 15 to February 21, 2016, directed by Whoriskey.[19]
Nottage won the 2015–16 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for this play.[20][21][22][23] Sweat premiered Off-
Broadway at the Public Theater on October 18, 2016 (previews), officially on November 3, again directed
by Whoriskey. Here, the play was awarded the 2017 Obie Award for Playwriting.[24] The play closed on
December 18, 2016.[25][26][27] Sweat opened on Broadway at Studio 54 on March 4, 2017, in previews,
officially on March 26. This marks Nottage's Broadway debut.[28][29]

Sweat was a finalist for the 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama.[30][31] Sweat was again a finalist
for the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. The award is
administered by Columbia University.[32][33] The play won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Other plays
Her short play Poof! (Heideman Award) was presented in 1993 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville during
the Humana Festival of New American Plays.[34][35] It was then broadcast on PBS in 2002, with a cast
that featured Rosie Perez and Viola Davis.[36][37] Poof! (https://playingonair.org/new-releases/poof-rerele
ase) was also recorded for podcast and public radio by Playing on Air (https://playingonair.org/), with a
cast that featured Audra McDonald, Tonya Pinkins, and Keith Randolph Smith with direction by Seret
Scott.

Her political satire Por'Knockers premiered in 1995 at the Vineyard Theatre, directed by Michael Rogers,
featuring Sanaa Lathan.

The West Coast premiere of her Crumbs from the Table of Joy, at South Coast Repertory in September
1996,[38] earned two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance.

Mud, River, Stone premiered in 1996 at The Acting Company directed by Seret Scott; it premiered in New
York in 1997 at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Roger Rees. It was a finalist for the Susan Smith
Blackburn Award, and won numerous regional theatre awards.
Las Meninas premiered in 2002 at San Jose Rep, directed by Michael Edwards. It was awarded a
Rockefeller Grant, as well as the AT&T OnStage Award. It follows the true story of Queen Maria Theresa
of Spain (wife of Louis XIV) and her affair with her African servant, Nabo, a dwarf from Dahomey.

Obie Award-winning Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (her companion piece to Intimate
Apparel, set one hundred years later), opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in June 2004.[39]

Her play Mlima's Tale premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 27, 2018, in previews,
officially on April 15 in a limited engagement to May 20. Direction is by Jo Bonney. The play concerns
an elephant, Mlima, "trapped inside the clandestine international ivory market". Sahr Ngaujah plays
Mlima.[40][41] Mlima's Tale was nominated for the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New
Off-Broadway Play, Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) (Lap Chi Chu) and Outstanding
Sound Design (Play or Musical) (Darron L. West).[42] The play was nominated for the 2019 Lucille
Lortel Awards for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Director (Bonney), Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
(Sahr Ngaujah), Outstanding Costume Design (Jennifer Moeller) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Lap
Chi Chu).[43]

Nottage wrote the book for the world premiere musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret
Life of Bees, with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. It premiered at the Off-
Broadway Atlantic Theater Company on May 12, 2019. The musical is directed by Sam Gold and
featured Saycon Sengbloh as Rosaleen, Elizabeth Teeter as Lily, LaChanze, Eisa Davis and Anastacia
McCleskey.[44] The musical had a workshop at the Vassar Powerhouse Theater, Martel Theatre in July
2017, directed by Sam Gold.[45][46]

Other work
Nottage wrote a monologue, The Grey Rooster, following a former slave and his slaveholder's
cockfighting rooster in post-Civil War Kentucky. It was performed as part of the National Civil War
Project's production Our War, produced in 2014 at Arena Stage, directed by Anita Maynard-Losh.

Nottage contributed to the "dance-theatre musical" written Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens titled In
Your Arms which premiered at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, in September 2015. The piece consists
of ten vignettes and was directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. Her vignette is titled A
Wedding Dance and was performed by Marija Juliette Abney and Adesola Osakalumi with The
Company.[47]

Nottage wrote the book for a jukebox musical centered on Michael Jackson and titled MJ the Musical,
originally aiming to premiere on Broadway in 2020; previews were delayed due to the COVID-19
pandemic, with the musical premiering in February 2022. MJ is currently running on Broadway, London's
West End and is touring the United States. It is set to premiere in Sydney and in Hamburg in Spring
2025.[48]

This is Reading
Nottage co-conceived This is Reading, an immersive transmedia project exploring the decline and rebirth
of Reading, Pennsylvania: the setting of Nottage's play Sweat.[49] This site-specific multimedia
installation blended live performance and visual media, occupying the Franklin Street Railroad Station in
Downtown Reading in May 2017, re-animating the long vacant building. Using as its foundation, the
hardships, challenges, and triumphs of people living in and around Reading, This is Reading weaved
individual stories into one cohesive tale of the city. It was produced in association with Market Road
Films, the Labyrinth Theater Company and Project&.

This Is Reading was conceived by Nottage, and co-created by an award-winning team of artists, including
filmmaker Tony Gerber, director Kate Whoriskey and Choreographer Rennie Harris. The creative team
included composer Kashaka, projection designer Jeff Sugg, set designer Deb O, costume designer
Jennifer Moeller, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, sound designer Nick Kourtides, muralist Katie
Merz and producers Jane M. Saks, Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Allison Bressi and Santo D. Marabella.

Market Road Films

She is the co-founder of a production company, Market Road
Films, whose most recent projects include The Notorious Mr.
Bout, directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin
(Premiere/Sundance 2014); First to Fall, directed by Rachel Beth
Anderson (Premiere/ IDFA, 2013); and Remote Control
(Premiere/Busan 2013–New Currents Award).

Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO,
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That, and Harpo
Productions.[50]

Film and television

Nottage was a producer and writer for the first season of She's
Gotta Have It.
Nottage reading at Occupy Wall
Street, November 2011
Themes
The Guardian noted:

"Nottage's two decades of work has garnered praise for bringing challenging and often
forgotten, stories onto the stage. ... Ruined explored the use of rape as a weapon against women
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while Intimate Apparel focused on a lonely Black
seamstress working in New York in 1905... Future areas the 51-year-old is keen to explore in
her plays includes the American prison industrial complex, which is "destroying the lives of so
 many men of colour" but is barely talked about in the national conversation or on the stage. Yet
Nottage also expressed disappointment that her work was constantly defined by both her own
race and gender, unlike her white male counterparts."[51]

Works

Full-length plays
Crumbs from the Table of Joy (1995)
Por'Knockers (1995)[52]
Mud, River, Stone (1997)[53]
Las Meninas (2002)[54]
Intimate Apparel (2003)
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (2004)
Ruined (2008)
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2011)[55]
Sweat (2015)
One More River to Cross: A Verbatim Fugue (2015)
Mlima's Tale (2018)
Clyde's (2021)[56] – originally debuted as Floyd's in 2019[57]

Musicals
The Secret Life of Bees (2019) – wrote book
MJ the Musical (2021) – wrote book

Operas
Intimate Apparel (2020) – wrote libretto
This House (2025) – co-wrote libretto
The Highlands (TBD) – co-wrote libretto

Other works
Rhinestones and Paste (1989) – first play produced in New York[58]
Poof (1993)[59] – short play
A Walk Through Time (2000) – children's musical
Our War (2014)[60] – contributed material
In Your Arms (2015) – contributed material
This Is Reading (2017) – co-conceived / multimedia installation
 The Watering Hole (2021) – co-conceived and co-created

Awards and nominations

Awards

2023 Langston Hughes Medal

2022 Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award
2019 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play – Sweat
2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Sweat
2017 Obie Award, Best New American Play – Sweat
2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize – Sweat
2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Ruined
2009 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play – Ruined
2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play – Ruined
2009 Obie Award for Best New American Play - Ruined
2009 AUDELCO Viv Award for Dramatic Production of the Year – Ruined
2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play – Ruined
2009 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play – Ruined
2005 Obie Award, Best New American Play - Fabulation
2004 AUDELCO Viv Award for Playwriting – Intimate Apparel
2004 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play – Intimate Apparel
2004 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award – Intimate Apparel
Nominations

2022 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical – MJ

2022 Tony Award for Best Play – Clyde's
2022 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics – Intimate Apparel
2022 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical – Intimate Apparel
2019 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play – Mlima's Tale
2019 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Revival – Fabulation, or The Re-Education of
Undine
2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival – Fabulation, or The Re-Education of
Undine
2019 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival – By the Way, Meet Vera Starke
2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play – Sweat
2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre – Sweat
2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play – Mlima's Tale
2017 Tony Award for Best Play – Sweat
2017 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play – Sweat
2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play – Sweat
2017 AUDELCO Viv Award for Dramatic Production of the Year – Sweat
2017 AUDELCO Viv Award for Playwriting – Sweat
2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play – By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
2011 AUDELCO Viv Award for Playwriting – By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize – Ruined
 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play – Intimate Apparel
2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize – Mud, River, Stone
Other awards

2019 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards
Council member Bartlett Sher[61][62]
2018 Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2017 Induction into The American Academy of Arts and Science
2017 Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters to "an outstanding playwright
for her body of work"
2017 AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Achievement
2017 Lucille Lortel Sidewalk Star
2016 PEN/Laura Pels "Master American Dramatist" Award
2016 Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters
2016 Columbia University Provost Grant
2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, 2016
2013 Madge Evans-Sidney Kingsley Award
2012 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award For Creativity
2010 Steinberg "Distinguished Playwright" Award
2010 Horton Foote Award
2007 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship
2005 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art
2004 PEN/Laura Pels "Mid-Career Playwright" Award
2000 & 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1994 Van Lier Playwright Fellowship
National Black Theatre Festival August Wilson Playwriting Award
Fellowships, commissions, and residencies

Signature Theatre Company, 2018–2019 Residency One

Park Avenue Armory (2017–2018)
Arena Stage
New Freedom Theatre
New Dramatists (1999–2006)

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External links
Official site (https://archive.today/20130222050512/http://www.lynnnottage.net/)
Nosheen Iqbal, "Interview: Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht" (https://www.theguardi
an.com/stage/2010/apr/20/lynn-nottage-ruined), The Guardian, April 20, 2010. Accessed
April 20, 2010
Lynn Nottage (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/483794) at the Internet Broadway
Database
Lynn Nottage (http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/3672) at the Internet Off-Broadway
Database
Biography at New Dramatists (http://www.newdramatists.org/lynn_nottage.htm#CRUMBS_F
ROM_THE_TABLE_OF_JOY)
"The Playwrights Database, Lynn Nottage" doollee.com (http://www.doollee.com/Playwrights
N/nottage-lynn.html) (subscription required)

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