21 Facts About Lynn Nottage

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Lynn Nottage was born on November 2,1964 and is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black.

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Lynn Nottage has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat.

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Lynn Nottage was the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times.

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Lynn Nottage is currently an associate professor of playwriting at Columbia University and an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory.

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Lynn Nottage was born on November 2,1964, in Brooklyn, New York.

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Lynn Nottage's mother Ruby Nottage was a schoolteacher and principal; her father Wallace was a child psychologist.

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Lynn Nottage went to Saint Ann's School for elementary school, and graduated from Fiorello H LaGuardia High School.

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Lynn Nottage attended Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.

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Lynn Nottage is married to filmmaker Tony Gerber, with whom she has two children, Ruby Aiyo and Melkamu Gerber.

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Lynn Nottage's plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world.

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Lynn Nottage's plan is to find the right man and use the money she's saved to open a beauty parlor where Black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for.

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Lynn Nottage received a commission from Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Arena Stage.

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Lynn Nottage wrote the book for the world premiere musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees, with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead.

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Lynn Nottage wrote a monologue, The Grey Rooster, following a former slave and his slaveholder's cockfighting rooster in post-Civil War Kentucky.

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Nottage contributed to the "dance-theatre musical" written Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens titled In Your Arms which premiered at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, in September 2015.

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Lynn Nottage's vignette is titled A Wedding Dance and was performed by Marija Juliette Abney and Adesola Osakalumi with The Company.

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Lynn Nottage wrote the book for a jukebox musical centered on Michael Jackson and titled MJ the Musical, originally aiming to premiere on Broadway in 2020; previews were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the musical premiering in February 2022.

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Lynn Nottage co-conceived This is Reading, an immersive transmedia project exploring the decline and rebirth of Reading, Pennsylvania: the setting of Lynn Nottage's play Sweat.

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Lynn Nottage is the co-founder of a production company, Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include The Notorious Mr Bout, directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin ; First to Fall, directed by Rachel Beth Anderson ; and Remote Control.

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Lynn Nottage was a producer and writer for the first season of She's Gotta Have It.

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Yet Lynn Nottage expressed disappointment that her work was constantly defined by both her own race and gender, unlike her white male counterparts.