# Lambda Literary Award for Drama

The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBTQ-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre or drama have also sometimes been nominated for the award.

## Honorees

Lambda Literary Award for Drama winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1995 | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner |
| 1995 | Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist |
| 1995 | Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey | Finalist |
| 1995 | Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Finalist |
| 1995 | David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Finalist |
| 1996 | Tony Kushner | Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) | Winner |
| 1996 | Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche | Go Fish | Finalist |
| 1996 | Terrence McNally | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Finalist |
| 1996 | Michael Kearns | T-Cells and Sympathy | Finalist |
| 1996 | Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.) | The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays | Finalist |
| 1997 | Sue-Ellen Case | Split Britches | WInner |
| 1997 | Michael Kearns | Acting=Life | Finalist |
| 1997 | Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars | Finalist |
| 1997 | Holly Hughes | Clit Notes | Finalist |
| 1997 | Mart Crowley | Three Plays by Crowley | Finalist |
| 1998 | Moises Kaufman | Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | Winner |
| 1998 | Harry M. Benshoff | Monsters in the Closet | Finalist |
| 1998 | Chay Yew | Porcelain and A Language of Their Own | Finalist |
| 1998 | Jonathan Larson | Rent | Finalist |
| 1998 | Lillian Schlissel | Three Plays by Mae West | Finalist |
| 1999 | Holly Hughes | O Solo Homo | Winner |
| 1999 | Jim Grimsley and David Roman | Mr. Universe and Other Plays | Finalist |
| 1999 | D. A. Miller | Place For Us | Finalist |
| 1999 | Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay America | Finalist |
| 1999 | Eve Ensler | The Vagina Monologues | Finalist |
| 2000 | Craig Lucas | What I Meant Was | Winner |
| 2000 | Terrence McNally | Corpus Christi | Finalist |
| 2000 | Laurence Senelick | Lovesick | Finalist |
| 2000 | Deb Margolin | Of All the Nerve | Finalist |
| 2000 | Steven Watson | Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism | Finalist |
| 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Winner |
| 2001 | Lisa Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy | Five Lesbian Brothers | Finalist |
| 2001 | Alina Troyano | I, Carmelita Tropicana | Finalist |
| 2001 | Tom Donaghy | The Beginning of August | Finalist |
| 2001 | Paul Rudnick | The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told | Finalist |
| 2002 | No award presented | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2003 | No award presented | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2004 | Brian Drader | Prok | Winner |
| 2004 | Ben Hodges | Forbidden Acts | Finalist |
| 2004 | C. E. Gatchalian | Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays | Finalist |
| 2004 | Mart Crowley | The Band Plays | Finalist |
| 2004 | Robert Schanke | Women in Turmoil: Six Plays | Finalist |
| 2005 | Doug Wright | I Am My Own Wife | Winner |
| 2005 | Donald Reuter | Fabulous! | Finalist |
| 2005 | David Gere | How to Make Dances in an Epidemic | Finalist |
| 2005 | Sharon Bridgeforth | love conjure/blues | Finalist |
| 2005 | Claude J. Summers | The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater | Finalist |
| 2006 | No award presented | No award presented | No award presented |
| 2007 | Tim Miller | 1001 Beds | Winner |
| 2007 | Steven Fales | Confessions of a Mormon Boy | Finalist |
| 2007 | Victor Bumbalo | Questa | Finalist |
| 2008 | Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (eds.) | Return to the Caffe Cino | Winner |
| 2008 | Dan Bernitt | Dose: Plays & Monologues | Finalist |
| 2008 | Victor Bumbalo | Niagara Falls | Finalist |
| 2009 | Carolyn Gage | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Winner |
| 2009 | Dan Bernitt | Phi Alpha Gamma | Finalist |
| 2009 | Martin Duberman | Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays | Finalist |
| 2009 | Scott Schofield | Two Truths and a Lie | Finalist |
| 2009 | Vanda | Vile Affections | Finalist |
| 2010 | Mart Crowley | The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley | Winner |
| 2010 | Bonnie J. Morris | Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor | Finalist |
| 2010 | Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman | The Beebo Brinker Chronicles | Finalist |
| 2011 | Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play | Winner |
| 2011 | Octavio Solis | Lydia | Finalist |
| 2011 | Daniel Talbott | Slipping | Finalist |
| 2011 | Tarell Alvin McCraney | The Brother/Sister Plays | Finalist |
| 2011 | Bryden MacDonald | With Bated Breath | Finalist |
| 2012 | Peggy Shaw | A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw | Winner |
| 2012 | Anton Dudley | Letters to the End of the World | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jonathan Tolins | Secrets of the Trade | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jon Marans | The Temperamentals | Finalist |
| 2012 | Madeleine George | The Zero Hour | Finalist |
| 2013 | David Greenspan | The Myopia and Other Plays | Winner |
| 2013 | Jon Marans | A Strange and Separate People | Finalist |
| 2013 | A. Rey Pamatmat | Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them | Finalist |
| 2013 | C. E. Gatchalian | Falling in Time | Finalist |
| 2013 | A. Rey Pamatmat | Thunder Above, Deeps Below | Finalist |
| 2014 | Michel Marc Bouchard | Tom at the Farm | Winner |
| 2014 | Adelina Anthony | Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains | Finalist |
| 2014 | Djola Branner | sash & trim and other plays | Finalist |
| 2015 | Robert O'Hara | Bootycandy | Winner |
| 2015 | Daniel Pearle | A Kid Like Jake | Finalist |
| 2015 | Adelina Anthony | The Beast of Times | Finalist |
| 2015 | Samuel D. Hunter | The Whale | Finalist |
| 2015 | Steve Yockey | Wolves | Finalist |
| 2016 | Tanya Barfield | Bright Half Life | Winner |
| 2016 | Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron | Fun Home | Finalist |
| 2016 | Taylor Mac | Hir | Finalist |
| 2016 | Deborah Salem Smith | Love Alone | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bathsheba Doran | The Mystery of Love and Sex | Finalist |
| 2017 | Robert O'Hara | Barbecue/Bootycandy | Winner |
| 2017 | Lois Fine | Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week | Finalist |
| 2017 | Topher Payne | Perfect Arrangement | Finalist |
| 2018 | Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner |
| 2018 | Scott C. Sickles | Composure | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tom MacRae | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Finalist |
| 2018 | Trey Anthony | How Black Mothers Say I Love You | Finalist |
| 2018 | Paula Vogel | Indecent | Finalist |
| 2019 | Mashuq Mushtaq Deen | Draw the Circle | Winner |
| 2019 | Daniel Alexander Jones | Black Light | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jen Silverman | Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties | Finalist |
| 2019 | Miranda Rose Hall | Plot Points in Our Sexual Development | Finalist |
| 2019 | Erin Markey | Singlet | Finalist |
| 2020 | Michael R. Jackson | A Strange Loop | Winner |
| 2020 | Liza Birkenmeier | Dr. Ride's American Beach House | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jordan Harrison | The Amateurs | Finalist |
| 2021 | Yilong Liu | The Book of Mountains and Seas | Winner |
| 2021 | Jacqueline Goldfinger | Babel | Finalist |
| 2021 | Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule | F*ck7thGrade | Finalist |
| 2021 | Sarah Einspanier | House Plant | Finalist |
| 2021 | R. Eric Thomas | Safe Space | Finalist |
| 2022 | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | Winner |
| 2022 | Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist |
| 2022 | storäe michele | mama [rose.] | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kheven LaGrone | Pillow Talk | Finalist |
| 2022 | L M Feldman | Thrive, or What You Will {an epic} | Finalist |
| 2023 | Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) | Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 | Winner |
| 2023 | kai fig taddei | Duecentomila | Finalist |
| 2023 | Sikivu Hutchinson | Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic | Finalist |
| 2023 | Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics) | The Show on the Roof | Finalist |
| 2023 | Hansol Jung | Wolf Play | Finalist |
| 2024 | James Ijames | Fat Ham | Winner |
| 2024 | Adam Meisner | For Both Resting and Breeding | Finalist |
| 2024 | Andrew Rincón | I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet | Finalist |
| 2024 | Milo Wippermann | Joan of Arkansas | Finalist |
| 2024 | Harrison David Rivers | the bandaged place | Finalist |