Eboni Booth's PRIMARY TRUST Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Primary Trust played Off-Broadway May through July 2023.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz May. 06, 2024
Eboni Booth's Primary Trust, which played Off-Broadway May through July 2023, has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Primary Trust follows Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais with his best friend Bert at a local tiki bar. When he's suddenly laid off, Kenneth is encouraged by a quirky waiter to face a world he's long avoided - with transformative and even comical results.
The Off-Broadway production, directed by Knud Adams, starred Eric Berryman as “Bert,” Emmy winner William Jackson Harper as “Kenneth,” Obie winner April Matthis as “Wally's Waiter & others,” Jay O. Sanders as “Clay & others,” and Luke Wygodny as “musician.”
Additional 2024 arts Putlizer Prize recipients included:
Fiction
Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf)
History
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
Biography
King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
and Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)
Memoir or Autobiography
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
Poetry
Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books)
General Nonfiction
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books)
See the full list of winners HERE.
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
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