All the Drama: Playwright Lynn Nottage on “Ruined,” 2009 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Ruined"
2009 Pulitzer winner “Ruined” by Lynn Nottage

Ruined Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruined_(play)

Lynn Nottage Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Nottage

Lynn Nottage website
http://www.lynnnottage.com/

“Ruined” script
https://bookshop.org/p/books/ruined-tcg-edition-lynn-nottage/10489403?ean=9781559363556

Keen Company’s “Crumbs From the Table of Joy”
https://www.keencompany.org/crumbsfromthetableofjoy

“Life During Wartime” by Hilton Als; The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/02/life-during-wartime

Theater Talk: Playwright Lynn Nottage's on "Ruined;'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XqveK8iOV0

“Esteemed Playwright Named 2007 'Genius'” NPR interview
https://www.npr.org/2007/09/25/14683563/esteemed-playwright-named-2007-genius

“The Subtext: Lynn Nottage, Learning From Every Job” audio interview
https://www.americantheatre.org/2022/05/31/the-subtext-lynn-nottage-learning-from-every-job/

“The Greats: Lynn Nottage” by Susan Dominus
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/14/t-magazine/lynn-nottage-theater-greats.html

“The Fortress of Solitude” by Jonathan Lethem
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fortress-of-solitude-jonathan-lethem/8523265?ean=9780375724886

“Poof” on Playing on Air
https://playingonair.org/new-releases/2015/08/10/new-podcast-poof-by-lynn-nottage

“Playwright Tells Intimate Details” Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-06-17-0406170054-story.html

“Intimate Apparel” opera on Great Performances:
https://www.thirteen.org/programs/great-performances/intimate-apparel-spseog/

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.