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Nottage, Lynn

LC control no.nr 98003139
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3564.O795
Personal name headingNottage, Lynn
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1964-11-02
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activityDrama Screenplays Television plays
Playwriting Motion picture authorship Television authorship Motion picture plays Television plays
AffiliationColumbia University. Theatre Program
Market Road Films (Firm)
Profession or occupationDramatists Screenwriters Television writers Motion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors College teachers Drama teachers
Playwrights Screenwriters Television writers Motion picture producers Television producers University and college faculty members
Found inWhy'd Furgie kill his in-laws, 1987?: title page (Lynn Nottage)
HistoryMakers, 6 October 2006: ArtMakers (Lynn Nottage; b. 1964, Brooklyn, N.Y.; African American playwright; received her B.A. from Brown Univ. in 1986 and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 1989)
Lynn Nottage website, April 19, 2019: home page (Lynn Nottage) about (Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a screenwriter; her most recent play, Mlima's Tale, premiered at the Public Theater in May 2018; other plays: Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination); Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award); Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play); Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Obie Award); Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'knockers; and POOF!; currently writing the book for the world premiere musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees; co-founder of the production company, Market Road Films; writer/producer on the Netflix series She's Gotta Have It; Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia School of the Arts; member of the The Dramatists Guild and WGAE)
Wikipedia, April 19, 2019 (Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of marginalized people. She is a professor of Playwriting at Columbia University; born Brooklyn, New York; co-founder of a production company, Market Road Films; has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That, and Harpo Productions)
Associated languageeng