name: Lynn Nottage
birth_date: 1964-11-02 00:00:00
genres: Theater & Drama
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about: Lynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of marginalized people. She is a professor of Playwriting at Columbia University. She was the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice; the first in 2009 for Ruined, and the second in 2017 for Sweat.