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Julia Jordan

is the recipient of the Kleban Award, Francesca Primus Prize, Jonathan Larson Award, Heideman Award, LeComte Nouy Award, ATT Onstage Award, and American Spirit Award. A member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild Council, she is also one of the founders of the Lilly Awards. She holds an M. Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin, and has taught playwriting at Primary Stages, Barnard College, and Columbia University.

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.