Fabulation Playwright
LYNN NOTTAGE is the author of INTIMATE APPAREL, which was produced in New York at the Roundabout Theatre Company after its world premiere production at Center Stage and South Coast Rep. The play received numerous awards, including the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Best Play award, the John Gassner Award, the American Theatre Critics/Steinberg 2004 New Play Award and the 2004 Francesca Primus Award. It has gone on to receive dozens of productions around the country.
Her next play, FABULATION, OR THE EDUCATION OF UNDINE, was first produced by Playwrights Horizons and recently received a highly-acclaimed production at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Both plays are published in an anthology by TCG. Her newest play is RUINED, which was produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in Fall 2008, and will open in February 2009 at Manhattan Theatre Club.
Another anthology of her plays, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY AND OTHER PLAYS was published by TCG, and includes CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY; LAS MENINAS; MUD, RIVER, STONE; POR’KNOCKERS and POOF! Her plays have been produced and developed at theatres throughout the country, including the Alliance Theatre, Second Stage, the Vineyard, Freedom Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, the Intiman, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, among many others.
Ms. Nottage wrote the feature film SIDE STREETS (Merchant Ivory Productions), directed by Tony Gerber. The film was an official selection at the Venice and Sundance Film Festivals. Currently, she is writing an adaptation of Edwige Danticat’s novel THE DEW BREAKER for HBO Films. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for literary excellence, the 2005 Guggenheim grant for playwriting, and fellowships from Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and the New York Foundation for the Arts, where she is a member of the Artists Advisory Board.
Ms. Nottage is an alumna of New Dramatists, a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Award, and a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is currently a visiting lecturer. She is currently under commission to write plays for the Royal National Theatre, the Goodman, the Wilma, Center Stage, South Coast Rep and the Roundabout.
She lives in Brooklyn.