Lynn Nottage Receives MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award'

Playwright Lynn Nottage has received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award".  She was one of 24 recipients chosen for their creativity, originality and potential and will receive $100,000 annually for the next five years.

Lynn Nottage's award winning play Intimate Apparel had its New York premiere April 11, 2004 in a Roundabout Theatre Company production at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, where it enjoyed a critically acclaimed limited engagement through June 13, 2004.

The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Intimate Apparel, was the inaugural production of Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre Off-Broadway.

Intimate Apparel won a number of awards including:
2004 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Best Play of the 2003-2004 season
2004 Outer Critics Circle Award Best Play
2004 Outer Critics Circle Award John Gassner Award Best Play
2004 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Lynn Nottage
(The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award to an American playwright in mid-career: Lynn Nottage)
2004 American Theatre Critic's Association's Francesca Primus Award Best Play
2004 Steinberg New Play Award
2004 Audelco Dramatic Production of the Year

Lynn Nottage is a playwright from Brooklyn.  Her plays include Intimate Apparel (2004 NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Awards, American Theatre Critics/Steinberg 2004 New Play Award and 2004 Francesca Primus Award, AUDELCO), Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine (2005 Obie Award for playwriting), A Stone's Throw, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Por' Knockers and Mud, River, Stone. They have been produced at theatres throughout the country and Europe including, Center Stage, Freedom Theatre, The Guthrie, Intiman, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, St. Louis Black Rep, South Coast Rep,  the Roundabout Theatre Company, The Tricycle Theatre and The Vineyard Theatre, among others.  She co-wrote the feature film Side Streets (Merchant Ivory Productions) directed by Tony Gerber. The film was an official selection at the Venice and Sundance Film Festivals. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award. TCG has published two collections of her plays Crumbs From the Table of Joy and Other Plays and Intimate Apparel/Fabulation.

Nottage is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.  She is currently a visiting lecturer at the Yale School of Drama.