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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.
From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the...
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Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning 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...
Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County.
Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to best-selling author Billie Letts and the late college...
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David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire (born November 30, 1969) is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play, Rabbit Hole.
Lindsay-Abaire was born David Abaire in South Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five...
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John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that...
Doug Wright
Doug Wright (born 1962) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife.
Wright was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended and graduated from Highland Park High...
Nilo Cruz
Nilo Cruz (born 1960) is an Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored.
Nilo Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright. With his...
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born 10 May 1963) is an American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.
Parks was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky...
David Auburn
David Auburn (born 1970) is an American playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in English literature. Following a...
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Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies (born 1954) (MARG-yoo-leez) is an American playwright and professor of English literature at Yale University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000 for his play, Dinner With Friends.
His other work include Shipwrecked! An...
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Margaret Edson
Margaret Edson (born 4 July 1961, Washington, D.C.) is an American playwright. Edson graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University. Her jobs have included...
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Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born 16 November 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive.
Vogel was born in Washington, D.C. to Donald Stephen Vogel, an advertising...
Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for the serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, homophobia, and AIDS explored in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes...
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Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his...
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the...
Robert Schenkkan
Robert Frederic Schenkkan, Jr. (born 19 March 1953) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps most recognizable as the character Dexter Remmick in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for...
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Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. His numerous Broadway succcesses have led to his work being among the most regularly performed in the world. Though primarily a comic writer, some of his plays,...
August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. His literary legacy is the ten play series, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the...
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play,...
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (nine, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime...
James Lapine
James Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director and librettist.
Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. He was a photographer, graphic designer, and architectural preservationist before...
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David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for their...
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Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden,...
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Charles Fuller
Charles H. Fuller, Jr. (born 5 March 1939) is an American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939, the son of Charles H....
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Beth Henley
Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley (born May 8, 1952, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American dramatist and actress. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart (1978).
Her most famous play, Crimes of the Heart, was...
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Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (born 13 April 1937) is an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004...
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child...
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Donald L. Coburn
Donald L. Coburn (born 4 August 1938) is an American dramatist. He received the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, The Gin Game.
Coburn was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents who divorced two years later. He graduated from high school...
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Michael Cristofer
Michael Ivan Cristofer (born 22 January 1945, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American playwright and filmmaker. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977.
Michael Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer...
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James Kirkwood, Jr.
James Kirkwood, Jr. (August 22, 1924 – April 21, 1989) was an American playwright and author. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway hit A Chorus...
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Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven....
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Edward Kleban
Edward “Ed” Kleban (April 30, 1939 - December 28, 1987) was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist.
A graduate of New York's High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, Kleban wrote the lyrics for the Broadway hit A Chorus Line....
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won a Golden Globe....
Nicholas Dante
Nicholas Dante (November 22, 1941 - May 21, 1991) was an American dancer and writer, best known for the hit musical A Chorus Line.
Born Conrado Morales in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Dante's early career was spent dancing in the chorus of...
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Jason Miller
Jason Miller (April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001) was an American actor and playwright. He received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play That Championship Season, and was widely recognized for his role as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror...
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Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel (15 May 1936 – 27 March 2003) was an American playwright, author, and educator.
Zindel was born on Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel, a policeman, and Betty Frank, a nurse. Through his teen years he wrote plays, though he trained as...
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Charles Gordone
Charles Edward Gordone (12 October 1925 - 16 November 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and devoted much of his professional life to the...
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Howard Sackler
Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 – October 12, 1982), was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for writing The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and...
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Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III (pronounced /ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance and Seascape (play). His works are considered well-crafted,...
Frank D. Gilroy
Frank Daniel Gilroy (born 13 October 1925) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Subject Was Roses in 1965.
Gilroy was born...
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Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 26, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and...
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Abe Burrows
Abe Burrows (18 December 1910 – 17 May 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.
Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and later attended both City...
Tad Mosel
Tad Mosel (1 May 1922 - 24 August 2008) was an American playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-long teleplay genre for live television during the 1950s. He received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play All the Way Home.
Mosel...
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George Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades.
Abbott was born in Forestville, New York,...
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Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (born 30 April 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues....
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Jerome Weidman
Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, New York City - October 6, 1998, New York City) was an American playwright and novelist. He collaborated with George Abbott on the book for the musical Fiorello! with music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick....
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Jerry Bock
Jerrold Lewis Bock (born 23 November 1928) is an American musical theatre composer.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he wrote...
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Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
MacLeish was born in Glencoe,...
Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings (28 February 1909 – 11 February 1981) was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter.
Born Katherine Hartley in Columbus, Ohio, Frings attended Principia College, began her career as a copywriter, and went on to work as a feature...
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Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright...
Albert Hackett
Albert Maurice Hackett (16 February 1900 – 16 March 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich.
Hackett was born to actors Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Hackett in...
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Frances Goodrich
Frances Goodrich (21 December 1890 – 29 January 1984) was an American dramatist andscreenwriter, best-known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett.
Goodrich was born to Henry Wickes and Madeleine Christy Lloyd Goodrich in...
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John Patrick
John Patrick (17 May 1905 – 7 November 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Born John Patrick Goggan in Louisville, Kentucky, his parents soon abandoned him and he spent a delinquent youth in foster homes and boarding schools. At age...
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William Inge
William Motter Inge (pronounced /ˈɪndʒ/ "inj") (May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he...
Joseph Kramm
Joseph A. Kramm (30 September 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 8 May 1991) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He received Pulitzer Prize for Drama in in 1951 for his play The Shrike, later adapted into a motion picture of the same...
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight...
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships...
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Joshua Logan
Joshua Lockwood Logan III (5 October 1908 – 12 July 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer.
Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas. His father died when Logan was only three, and his mother remarried six years later. He was reared in...
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The...
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to ...
Russel Crouse
Russel Crouse (20 February 1893 – 3 April 1966) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his work in the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse.
Born in Findlay, Ohio, Crouse began his Broadway career in 1928 as an actor...
