Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a two time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. They include Clyde's (Tony Nomination), MJ the Musical (Tony Nomination), Intimate Apparel the Opera (Drama Desk Nomination), Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), 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 and POOF!.
She is an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She is the co-founder of the production company, Market Road Films. Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That and Harpo. She was writer/producer on the Netflix series She's Gotta Have It directed by Spike Lee and a Consulting Producer on Dickinson (Apple+). Nottage's most recent honors include: Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, The Merit Medal and Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters, Columbia University Provost Grant, Doris Duke Artist Award, The Joyce Foundation Commission Project & Grant, MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Steinberg "Mimi" Distinguished Playwright Award, Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for Creativity, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and the inaugural Horton Foote Prize.
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Professor of Playwriting and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will premiere her new musical adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s novel Imitation of Life this fall at The Shed.
Theatre Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine will be revived in a new production opening this month at Brooklyn's Billie Holiday Theatre.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright and Professor of Theatre Lynn Nottage was presented with the Monte Cristo Award by The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center on November 6, 2023 during a gala in her honor.
Associate Professor Lynn Nottage is set to adapt the 1933 novel Imitation of Life into a stage musical alongside John Legend, according to Playbill.
After a marathon year in which she put up three new pieces of work, Nottage's contributions to the world of theatre—especially in the midst of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic—are being recognized as not only an incredible feat, but also a labor of love.
The winners of the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on June 8, 2022, and several projects from Columbia artists are among the award winners.
Update: June 13, 2022 Several projects worked on by Columbia Theatre artists took home prizes at last night's 75th annual Tony Awards Ceremony.
Among several showings, Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s new play Clyde’s will make its New York premiere in Fall 2021 when Second Stage's Hayes Theater reopens.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research library of The New York Public Library in Harlem, compiled a Black Liberation Reading List "in response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives."
The 65th annual Drama Desk Award nominees include productions featuring Columbia Faculty, alumni, and current students.
Directing alumna Rachel Chavkin ’08, Professor Morgan Jenness, and Professor Lynn Nottage partner with a team of more than 50 artists to launch The Trickle Up campaign to help provide opportunities for artists to earn income during the shutdown of theatres and arts venues across the country.
ZORA, the online literary magazine devoted to publishing women of color, recently released the Zora Canon on its website listing the best books by African American women. Several books by Columbia writers were included on this impressive list.
Professor Lynn Nottage won London’s Evening Standard Award for Best Play, for her play Sweat.
The 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards presented by Broadway News were announced June 2, 2019 at The Town Hall in New York City.
Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Theater Arts Professor Lynn Nottage were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Professor Lynn Nottage has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The award marks another success for Nottage this spring. Nottage was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama for her playSweat, making her the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes in drama (she previously won the award with her play Ruined in 2009). Sweat also marks Nottage’s Broadway debut, where it is currently running at Studio 54.
School of the Arts faculty members Hilton Als, Associate Professor of Writing, and Lynn Nottage, Associate Professor of Theatre, have been awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in Criticism and Drama, respectively.
