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won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living. Her plays have been presented at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theatre, The O’Neill and The Kennedy Center, among others. Awards include The Lanford Wilson Award, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play (Helen Hayes Award), NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Prize and NNPN/Smith Prize for Political Playwriting. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama, Juilliard. Commissions include Lincoln Center Theater, Bush Theatre in London, La Jolla Playhouse, and MTC, among others. She was the PoNY (Playwrights of New York) Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and is a 2018/19 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

La Jolla Playhouse: The Orphan of Zhao. She served as Artistic Director of A.C.T. for 20 years. Known for directing innovative productions of classics and championing new writing for the theatre, her A.C.T. credits include Arcadia, Elektra and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as the American premieres of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love and Indian Ink and Harold Pinter’s Celebration. Playwriting credits include Luminescence Dating, Waiting for the Flood, Higher and Kinship. A recipient of France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the National Corporate Theatre Fund’s 2007 Artistic Achievement Award, she received a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in classics and comparative literature from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford.