
Winner 2015-16
Lynn Nottage
Play: Sweat
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Synopsis: A sudden lock out at a metal tubing factory shakes up a group of close-knit friends. Their fragile bonds splinter, leading to a horrific crime that sends shock waves across two generations Cast Breakdown: 3W 6M Set/Costume Requirements: Four flexible locations Website: http://www.lynnnottage.com Agent: Olivier Sultan, CAA osultan@caa.com Play Service: Please contact Olivier Sultan at olivier.sultan@caa.com Bio: Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. They include By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lily Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, LucilleLortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award and Audelco), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ CircleAwards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers and Poof!. Her new play, Sweat, premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is currently playing at Arena Stage. In addition, she is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera (commissioned by The Met/LCT). |
![]() (L-R) Kimberly Scott as Cynthia, Kevin Kenerly as Brucie, ![]() (L-R) Jack Willis as Stan, Kimberly Scott as Cynthia ![]() (L-R) Stephen Michael Spencer as Jason and Tramell Tillman as Chris Sweat at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater 2016. Photos by C. Stanley Photography |