Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage is a playwright and the author of Ruined which is now playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The play is set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo and follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. In addition to Ruined, Nottage is also the author of Intimate Apparel, (New York Drama Critics Circle’s Best Play; Roundabout, Center Stage, South Coast Rep); Fabulation, Or The Education Of Undine (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons, London’s Tricycle Theatre); Crumbs From The Table Of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone and Por’knockers and Poof! .

Nottage received the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for playwriting, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, MTC, New Dramatists and the NYFA is an alumna of New Dramatists, and a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama where she is a visiting lecturer. She would like to thank the Guggenheim Foundation for its support of this project.