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.
Associate Professor, Theatre