Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage ( born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American playwright, in 2009 both the Joseph Jefferson Award and the New York Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined for theater was awarded.
Life
After school, she studied at The High School of Music & Art and the Brown University and graduated in 1986 from. In another study at the Yale School of Drama few years later they began writing plays that were first performed at various theaters of the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons and as played. In 1999 she received financial support as a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Arts / Theatre Communications Group ( NEA / TCG Fellowship ).
For her 2003 piece premiered in Intimate Apparel 2004, she earned the New York Critics' Circle Award for best play. In 2007 she received a MacArthur Fellowship, a five-year fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. My biggest success was the drama Ruined, for which she was awarded both the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award and the New York Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.