Playwright honored with Steinberg Award
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage ’89MFA, lecturer in the playwriting department at the drama school, is the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award in recognition of her body of work. The $200,000 award from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, presented every other year, is the most lucrative prize in theater. It was established in 2008 to honor the artistic achievement of an American playwright whose body of work has made significant contributions to the American theater. The first honoree, that year, was Tony Kushner. Nottage is the author of Ruined, for which she received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, as well asIntimate Apparel; Mud, River, Stone; Crumbs from the Table of Joy (seen at Yale Rep in 1998); and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which will debut at Second Stage Theatre in New York this spring.
Professor’s book wins library association prize
The Theatre Library Association has chosen The American Play: 1787–2000 as the winner of its George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize. The book, written by Marc Robinson ’90MFA, ’92DFA, professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, was published by Yale University Press last year and has since garnered numerous honors and awards. The George Freedley Memorial Award was established in 1968 in honor of the first curator of the New York Public Library’s Theatre Collection and first president of the Theatre Library Association, and recognizes exceptional scholarship published or distributed in the United States during the previous calendar year that examines some aspect of live theater or performance.
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