Jackie Sibblies Drury

Jackie Sibblies Drury is an American playwright. A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, she is a graduate of Yale and Brown University MFA playwriting program, receiving the David Wickham Prize in Playwriting.
Drury is known for plays including "Social Creatures" which was commissioned by and premiered at Trinity Repertory Theater Company, in Providence, Rhode Island in 2013; the play depicts a zombie apocalypse. Her play "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" (Soho Rep, 2012), was called by "The New York Times" "her breakout work".
Personal life.
She was raised by a single mom in Plainfield, New Jersey. Her mother introduced her to theater by bringing to her Broadway plays she was invited by her work. She attended a private school in New Jersey.
Awards and honors.
She was a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Drama in 2015.
She was awarded the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play "Fairview". The prize has a cash award of $25,000. "Fairview" was presented Off-Broadway in 2018 by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Soho Rep. 
"Fairview" was also awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this "hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices."
She received the 2019 Steinberg Playwright Award for "Fairview", which includes a $50,000 cash prize.