White Noise (2019) Top Dog Underdog (2001) In the Blood (2000)
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Named among Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Other grants and awards include those from the National Endowment for the...
Between Riverside and Crazy (2014) Our Lady of 121st St. (2003) Jesus Hopped the A Train (2002)
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Stephen Adly Guirgis graduated from University at Albany - SUNY. He is a former Co-Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York Cityand educator in New York City area prisons, schools, shelters, and hospitals for conflict resolution and HIV/AIDS prevention. Guirgis's plays have been performed throughoug the US and across 5 continents. He won the 2015 Pulitzer...
Anna in the Tropics (2002) Dancing on Her Knees (1996)
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Nilo Cruz is the author of many plays, including A PARK IN OUR HOUSE, A BICYCLE COUNTRY, TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO, LORCA IN A GREEN DRESS, HORTENSIA AND THE MUSEUM OF DREAMS, DANCING ON HER KNEES, NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA, BEAUTY OF THE FATHER, A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS, and translations of THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA and DONA ROSITA, THE SPINSTER. His plays have been produced throughout the country at numerous theatres, including The...
Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. She is the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Her plays include Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination), This is Reading, Floyd’s, Mlima’s Tale, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly...
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor. He created and stared in Broadway's Tony winning musicals Hamilton and In the Heights. He is also the co-composer (with Tom Kitt) and co-lyricist (with Amanda Green) of Broadway’s Bring it On: The Musical. In 2016, Hamilton recieved a record breaking 16 Tony Nominations, and his work has received 15 total Tony Awards, along with multiple Grammy...
Miss You Like Hell (2018) Daphne's Dive (2017) The Happiest Song Plays Last (2014) Water by the Spoonful(2012 Pulitzer) Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (2007 Pulitzer Finalist) In the Heights (2005 Pulitzer Finalist)
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Quiara Alegría Hudes is a writer, strong wife and mother of two, barrio feminist and native of West Philly, U.S.A. Hailed for her work’s exuberance, intellectual rigor, and rich imagination, her...