Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent. She is an associate professor of theater at Columbia University and a lecturer in playwriting at Yale University.Nottage 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 Grant in 2007. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 for Ruined.
Her play, "Ruined," at the Eclipse Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Play Production.
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Her play, "Ruined", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production of a Play (Large).
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She was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work of a Play for "Ruined", performed at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Graduated from Brown University in 1986.
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Winner of the 2009 New York Critics' Circle Award for Best Play - "Ruined" by Lynn Nottage.
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Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, "Ruined".
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Recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play as the writer of "Intimate Apparel" (2004)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Belle of New Orleans
2013
Short
My America
2012
TV Series 2 episodes
The Belle of New Orleans
2011
Short
In Another Time
2007
Short play "Intimate Apparel"
Side Streets
1998
writer
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
First to Fall
2014
Documentary co-producer
The Notorious Mr. Bout
2014
Documentary executive producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
In Another Time
2007
Short very special thanks
Manderlay
2005
the production wishes to thank
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
PBS NewsHour
2016
TV Series
Herself
Observing the Future of Storytelling at the New Frontier Story Lab
$14 Million
