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Lynn Nottage birthday
Lynn Nottage was born in Brooklyn, New York. She has a brother named Wally. Her father was a social worker and mother a teacher. Growing up in a household with lots of laughter and lots of art, Nottage recalls coming home from school to women sitting around the table telling stories. -
Lynn Nottage first play
Lynn Nottage attended Saint Ann's School for elementary school. She wrote her first play at age 8, inspired by the women in her family. Her first play was "The Darker Side of Verona". -
Lynn Nottage Influenced
Lynn Nottage was influenced by the women in her family, black writers, a New York Times article, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and her great-grandmother. -
Lynn Nottage school life
Lynn Nottage went to high school in Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She wrote a full-length play, The Darker Side Of Verona. About an African-American Shakespeare company traveling through the South. -
Lynn Nottage went to university
Lynn Nottage attended Brown University and Yale School of drama. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brown in 1986 and her Master of Fine Arts from Yale in 1989. Nottage has also received honorary degrees from Brown, Juilliard, and Albright College. -
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Lynn Nottage Amnesty International's press office
Lynn worked for four years at Amnesty International's press office after university before becoming a full-time playwright. During her time at Amnesty International, she publicized reports about people whose human rights were denied by their governments. -
Lynn Nottage home places
Lynn Nottage has lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, DC, but she has lived in Brooklyn since birth. -
Lynn Nottage Children Ruby Aiyo
Ruby was born in 1997. Ruby Aiyo is a poet and a writer. Not much is known. -
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Lynn Nottage Husband
Tony Gerber is Lynn Nottage's husband she married and had two children with him. He worked as a filmmaker. Even today, they are still married to this day. Tony Gerber is an American filmmaker and the co-founder of Market Road Films, an independent production company. -
Work
Lynn Nottage works as an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia School of the Arts. -
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Lynn Nottage awards
Lynn Nottage had many awards over the years. Some were from performers she had and got her awards. Some of her awards were from the play Ruined. -
She worked with composer Ricky Lan Gordo
Lynn worked with composer Ricky Lan Gordo. Ricky Ian Gordon is an American composer known for his work in opera, art song, and musical theater. -
Lynn Nottage 2nd child
Lynn Nottage had a son name Melkamu Gerber. His son is 16 years old now. Little is known about him. -
Lynn prize
Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. In 2009, Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Ruined, which is about the experiences of women during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her plays, highlighting the struggles of people forced to the margins of society, have been produced across the United States and throughout the world. -
Degrees
Lynn Nottage received Honorary degrees from Brown, Juilliard school and Albright College. Lynn Nottage has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. She graduated with a degree in English and African American studies. Nottage moved to New York City, where she worked in the press office of Amnesty International for four years while writing plays in her spare time. -
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Shows Lynn Nottage worked on
Lynn Nottage worked on "She's Gotta Have It", "Dickinson," "Takeover", "Unfinished: Deep South", "The Notorious Mr. Bout", "First to Fall", and "Remote Control". -
Lynn being the first woman in history
Lynn Nottage was the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. She won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "Ruined, she won a second Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "Sweat." -
Lynn second prize
She also won another prize in 2017 for her work "Sweat". -
Lynn project
Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That, and Harpo. She is also a writer/producer on the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee. -