Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage (1964-) is a respected American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007.

Her best-known play is "Intimate Apparel", co-commissioned and produced at Baltimore's Center Stage (where it premiered in February 2003) and South Coast Repertory. It was highly acclaimed in its Off-Broadway production in 2004, starring Viola Davis. Her other plays include the children’s musical, "A Walk Through Time"; "Mud, River, Stone" (Blackburn Prize finalist); "Por’knockers; Poof!" (Heideman Award); and "Las Meninas". The West Coast premiere of her "Crumbs from the Table of Joy", at South Coast Repertory, earned two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance.

Nottage's plays have been produced Off Broadway and regionally by The Acting Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Freedom Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Studio Arena Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre and many others. She is working on a companion piece to "Intimate Apparel", set 100 years later, for Playwrights Horizons. She has been awarded playwriting fellowships from Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also the recipient of a Playwrights Horizons Amblin/Dreamworks commission and an NEA/TCG grant for a year-long residency at Freedom Repertory Theatre in Philadelphia. Ms. Nottage is a member of New Dramatists.

Works

*"Crumbs from the Table of Joy"
*"Mud, River, Stone"
*"Poof"
*"Por'Knockers"
*"Las Meninas"
*"Fabulation"
*"Intimate Apparel"


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