Pulitzer Prize for Drama
American award for distinguished plays
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first given out in 1918. It is given to the best drama in the United States in the year.
Awards and nominations change
Items marked with an asterisk (*) also won the Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical
1910s change
- 1918: Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
- 1919: no award
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2010s change
- 2010: Next to Normal – Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
- 2011: Clybourne Park * – Bruce Norris
- 2012: Water by the Spoonful – Quiara Alegría Hudes
- 2013: Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar
- Rapture, Blister, Burn - Gina Gionfriddo
- 4000 Miles - Amy Herzog
Multiple winners change
Only a few playwrights have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama more than once.
- Eugene O'Neill won the prize four times—more than any other playwright. He won in 1920, 1922, 1928, and 1957.
- George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937. Both times he won the award for a work with another writer.
- Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.
- Thornton Wilder won in 1938 and 1943.
- Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.
- August Wilson won the award in 1987 and 1990.
- Edward Albee won the award in 1967, 1975 and 1994.
References change
- ↑ The Pulitzer committee recommended Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? *, but the Pulitzer board, who have sole discretion in awarding the prize, rejected the recommendation, due to the play's perceived vulgarity, and no award was given instead. Klein, Alvin. "Albee's 'Tiny Alice,' The Whole Enchilada." The New York Times 24 May 1998: CT11.