body of work" 2017 AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Achievement 2017 Lucille Lortel Sidewalk Star 2016 PEN/Laura Pels "Master American Dramatist" Award 2016 Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters 2016 Columbia University Provost Grant 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, 2016 2013 Madge Evans-Sidney Kingsley Award 2012 Nelson A. Rockefeller Award For Creativity 2010 Steinberg "Distinguished Playwright" Award 2010 Horton Foote Award 2007 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship 2005 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art 2004 PEN/Laura Pels "Mid-Career Playwright" Award 2000 & 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1994 Van Lier Playwright Fellowship National Black Theatre Festival August Wilson Playwriting Award Fellowships, commissions, and residencies Signature Theatre Company, 2018–2019 Residency One Park Avenue Armory (2017–2018) Arena Stage New Freedom Theatre New Dramatists (1999–2006) References External links Official site Nosheen Iqbal, "Interview: Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht", The Guardian, April 20, 2010. Accessed April 20, 2010 Biography at New Dramatists "The Playwrights Database, Lynn Nottage" doollee.com 1964 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights African-American dramatists and playwrights MacArthur Fellows Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners Yale School of Drama alumni Brown University alumni Columbia University faculty American women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American women writers Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) alumni Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni American women academics 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters