Lynn Nottage is a playwright, screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for MJ the Musical (Broadway), the libretto for the Intimate Apparel opera (LCT), and Clyde’s (Broadway, Second Stage Theater, Goodman Theater), and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theater).   

Past work includes Sweat; Ruined; the book for The Secret Life of Bees; Mlima’s Tale; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF! She has also developed This Is Reading, a performance installation in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ms. Nottage is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame and received a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (among other awards). She is an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.