NewDramatists Pulitzer and Obie Award Winners

Resident Playwright Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winners
(Last updated 8/2009)

1952 The Shrike by Joseph Kramm
1953 Picnic by William Inge
1954 The Teahouse of August Moon by John Patric
1980 Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson
1987 Fences by August Wilson
1990 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1991 The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
1998 How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
2000 Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
2002 Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori Parks
2003 Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2004 I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
2005 Doubt by John Patrick Shanley

2007 Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

2009 Ruined by Lynn Nottage


Resident Playwright Obie Award Winners
(Last updated 8/2009)

1957 A House Remembered by Louis Lippa, Best Play
1960 The Connection by Jack Gelber, Best Play
1964 Home Movies by Rosalyn Drexler, Distinguished Play
1965 The Cradle Will Rock by Megan Terry, Best Musical Production
1965 Promenade and The Successful Life of Three by Maria Irene Fornes, Distinguished Play
1967 Futz by Rochelle Owens, Distinguished Play
1968 Muzeeka by John Guare, Distinguished Play
1968 The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz, Distinguished Play
1969 Gloria and Esperanza by Julie Bovasso, Distinguished Achievement (altered format)
1969 Little Murders by Jules Feiffer, Distinguished Achievement
1969 The Honest-To-Goodness Schnozzola by Israel Horovitz, Distinguished Achievement
1969 Gloria & Esperansa by Julie Bovasso, Playwrighting
1970 The Deer Kill by Murray Mednick, Distinguished Play
1970 Approaching Simone by Meghan Terry, Best New American Play
1971 House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, Best New American Play
1971 The Fabulous Miss Marie and In New England Writer by Ed Bullins, Distinguished Play
1973 Hot L Baltimore by Landford Wilson, Best New American Play
1975 The First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee, Best New American Play
1975 The Taking of Miss Janie by Ed Bullins, Distinguished Play
1975 The Mound Builders by Landford Wilson, Distinguished Play
1976 Rhoda in Potatoland by Richard Foreman, Best Theatre Piece
1977 Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes, Distinguished Play
1977 Domino Courts by William Hauptman, Distinguished Play
1979 The Writer’s Opera by Rosalyn Drexler, Distinguished Play
1980 Tennessee by Romulus Linney, Distinguished Play
1981 How I Got That Story by Amlin Gray, Distinguished Play
1981 Still Life by Emily Mann, Best Production
1982 Maria Irene Fornes, Sustained Achievement
1983 Lanford Wilson, Sustained Achievement
1984 The Danube, Sarita and Mud by Maria Irene Fornes, Direction and Playwriting
1985 The Conduct of Life by Maria Irene Fornes, Best Play
1985 Transients Welcome by Rosalyn Drexler, Playwriting
1987 The Cure and Film is Evil, Radio Is Good by Richard Foreman, Best New American Play
1988 Abingdon Square by Maria Irene Fornes, Best New Play
1988 Richard Foreman, Sustained Achievement
1990 Imperceptible Mutabilities In the Third Kingdom by Suzan-Lori Parks, Best New American Play
1990 Bad Penny, Crowbar, and Terminal Hip by Mac Wellman, Best New American Plays
1991 Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, Playwriting
1991 Sincerity Forever by Mac Wellman, Playwriting
1992 Sight Unseen by Donald Marguiles, Best New American Play
1992 The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, Best New American Play
1992 Romulus Linney, Sustained Achievement
1994 Beauty’s Daughter by Dael Orlandersmith, Special Citation
1995 Richard Foreman, Sustained Achievement
1996 Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, Distinguished Playwriting
1996 The Model Apartment by Donald Marguiles, Distinguished Playwriting
1996 Quills by Douglas Wright, Distinguished Playwriting
1997 How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel, Distinguished Playwriting
1997 Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson, Distinguished Playwriting
1997 Pearls For Pigs and Benita Canova by Richard Foreman, Best Play
1999 Letters from Cuba by Maria Irene Fornes, Special Citation
2002 sic by Melissa James Gibson, Playwriting
2003 The Romance of Magno Rubio by Lonnie Carter, Special Citation
2003 Nita and Zita by Lisa D’Amour, Special Citation
2003 She Stoops to Comedy by David Greenspan, Special Citation
2003 Painted Snake in a Painted Chair by Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet, Special Citation
2003 Mac Wellman, Lifetime Achievement Award
2003 Edward Albee’s All Over directed by Emily Mann, Direction
2005 Where Do We Live by Christopher Shinn, Playwriting
2005 Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, Playwriting
2005 Fabulation by Lynn Nottage, Playwriting
2005 John Guare, Sustained Achievement

2009 Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Best New American Play

*2005 New Dramatists - Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Award