5 Quotes & Sayings By Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage is the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning playwright of Ruined, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Sweat, which won the 2012 Obie Award; The Loving Story, which won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play; and A World of Difference (also winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play). Her plays have been produced around the world. Nottage is also a highly regarded poet with two books to her name. She received her BA from Radcliffe College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama Read more

In addition to writing, she has taught at Yale, Columbia, Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, and the Yale Drama Department. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Newsweek, The New Republic , and The New York Times . She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.

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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. Lynn Nottage
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I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. Lynn Nottage
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I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. Lynn Nottage
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If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. Lynn Nottage