Lynn Nottage is a double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and
screenwriter. Her plays include Sweat (winner of the Pulitzer
Price); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Ruined (winner of the Pulitzer
Prize); Intimate Apparel; Fabulation; Crumbs from the Table of Joy;
Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'knockers and POOF!
Nottage was the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished
Playwright Award, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, the
Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote
Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for Ruined), the Lee
Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other
honours include the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, the
National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award,
the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels
Award, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the
Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for
the Arts.
She is a co-founder and producer at Market Road Films LLC, a film
production company.
'Lynn Nottage's devastating account of American industrial decline
is a masterpiece... empathy radiates from every word; Nottage's own
sweat has paid off in what is emphatically one of the great
American plays'
*Time Out*
'Profound, terrifying, earthy and witty... exquisitely
empathetic... outstanding'
*Evening Standard*
'Magnificent… does what drama at its very best can do — it tells
the story of our times through one tight-knit and vividly drawn
group of people… it's funny, angry and immensely sad, making a
profound plea for those who have been chewed up and spat out by
geopolitical forces beyond their control… a humane, heartbreaking
and necessary play'
*Financial Times*
'A play of passion, eloquent about the way life can grind a person
down... at times staggeringly sad, this is an American story, but
also a global one... a nuanced and moving study of a town in
decline'
*The Stage*
'Nottage is simply brilliant at capturing the authentic voices of
workers caught up in a drama they never wanted or expected'
*The Times*
'Breathtaking... tackles the devastating impact of loss of work and
of de-industrialisation on modern America... captures brilliantly
the way work, however hard or demanding, gives people an identity
and purpose... I can't think of any recent play that tells us so
much, and so vividly, about the state of the union'
*Guardian*
'Written by a dramatist of ambitious scope and fierce focus, Sweat
is a bracingly topical portrait of American dreams deferred. It
warrants serious applause'
*New York Times*
'A moral, passionate, and richly articulated cri de coeur'
*Chicago Tribune*
'A powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how
it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its
heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result
from class aspirations'
*New Yorker*
'Sweat never feels less than authentic — and crucial... Nottage
gives us fully realized characters who, even when acting on
their worst fears, are grippingly human'
*Deadline*
'A timely drama... goes where few playwrights have dared to go —
into the heart of working-class America'
*Variety*
'A passionate and necessary drama, a masterful depiction of the
forces that divide and conquer us… Along with the rage, despair,
and violence, there's humor and abundant humanity'
*Time Out New York*
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