Playwright, Sweat
Other plays: Ruined (OSF, 2010); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Intimate Apparel (OSF, 2006); Crumbs from the Table of Joy (OSF, 2000); Mud, River, Stone; Las Meninas; Por’knockers; Fabulation, or the Reeducation of Undine and Poof! She is currently working on Intimate Apparel, an opera, with composer Ricky Ian Gordon (Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center), and a performance installation in Reading, PA, with Labyrinth Theatre Company and Project&.
Other credits: Co-founder of Market Road Films with Tony Gerber.
Awards and honors: Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards (Ruined, Goodman Theatre, MTC Theatre); Lily Award, Drama Desk nomination (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Second Stage Theatre); American Theatre Critics, New York Drama Critics’ Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards (Intimate Apparel, Center Stage, South Coast Repertory); Obie Award (Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Playwrights Horizons). MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Horton Foote Prize, Steinberg Distinguished Playwright, Hull-Warriner, Helen Hayes, JWW iWitness and PEN/Laura Pels Awards, Lucille Lortel Fellowship, Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University.
Education: MFA in playwriting, Yale School of Drama; BA, Brown University.