What is a favorite memory from this season?

There was one day this season where I was dead tired, but I had the singular thrill of dragging my exhausted body from a rehearsal of Intimate Apparel the Opera at Lincoln Center Theater, to tech of MJ the Musical at the Neil Simon Theatre, and then to a performance and talkback of Clyde’s at the Helen Hayes Theater.

What is a great bit of advice about playwriting you’ve given or received?

If in doubt, remember to sustain the complexity of your characters.

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Lynn Nottage

is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Recent work includes the libretto for the opera Intimate Apparel (Lincoln Center Theater), the book for the musical MJ (Broadway), Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST), and the book for the musical The Secret Life of Bees. Other credits include the performance installation (as co-curator) of The Watering Hole at the Signature Theatre; Mlima’s Tale; Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Evening Standard Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award); Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lortel, NY Drama Critics’ Circle, AUDELCO, Drama Desk, and OCC awards); Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and NY Drama Critics’ Circle). She is the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship. She is a Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame and the Dramatists Guild.