abstract:Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.
The winners were selected by a panel of nine judges that included playwrights LynnNottage, Itamar Moses, Diana Son and Brian Yorkey and Columbia University President Lee C.
Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with LynnNottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.