Blog Archives

Jackie Sibblies Drury is a first-generation American playwright. She grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, raised by her Jamaican immigrant mother and grandmother. Her mother enrolled her at a private school in New Jersey where she witnessed the persistence […]

Before Bess Wohl became an American playwright and screenwriter she could be seen in a few television series, including “Law & Order” (1990-2010), “Cold Case” (2003-2010) and “CSI: New York” (2004-2013). Wohl grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she […]

William Finn (born February 28, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Jewish American composer and lyricist. He was raised in conservative Judaism and grew up in Natick, Massachusetts. He attended the Temple Israel in Natick and wrote his first […]

Lynn Nottage is the only living American playwright to have won the Pulitzer Prize multiple times. Her first one came in 2009 for Ruined, a drama about a small bar in a mining town in the Congo that serves […]