Lynn Nottage and Paul Taylor to Receive Rockefeller Awards, 3/15

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage will be honored with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award on March 15th for her contribution to performing arts. The award will be presented by Purchase College School of the Arts Gala at the Hudson Theatre. Choreographer Paul Taylor will be honored for his contribution to the arts as well.

The event will be hosted by Susie Essman of "Curb Your Enthusiam" on March 15th at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre. The event will feature the presentation of the Rockefeller Awards as well as performances from the School of the Arts Conservatories.

Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American playwright whose plays have been produced internationally. She is the author of Intimate Apparel, which received the 2004 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Best Play Award, the John Gassner Award, and the American Theatre Critics/Steinberg 2004 New Play Award. She won the Pulitzer in 2009 for Ruined, which also garnered the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Best New Play. Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine garnered Nottage an Obie Award in 2005 and recently enjoyed a highly acclaimed run at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Her other plays include: Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Mud, River, Stone; and Las Meninas. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for literary excellence and the MacArthur "Genius" Award, as well as fellowships from Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and the New York Foundation for the Arts, where she is a member of the Artists Advisory Board. Nottage is an alumna of New Dramatists, Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is currently a visiting lecturer.

Tickets for the event can be purchased by calling (212) 677-3173 ext. 246 or by visiting Purchase.edu/soGala.

The Hudson Theatre is located at 145 West 44th Street in Manhattan in the Millennium Broadway Hotel.