Walton Arts & Ideas Series Event - Lynn Nottage

415 North College Avenue,Clarksville AR 72830

17 February, 2022

Description

A playwright and a screenwriter, Lynn Nottage is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. Walton Arts and Ideas Series is made possible by an endowment established by the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation. There is no charge for admission to any of the events. The University will require masks and social-distancing protocols for the WAIS events this year and may also limit attendance based on the status of the COVID pandemic at the time of the event.Lynn Nottage 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022Seay Theatre, Walton Fine Arts CenterA playwright and a screenwriter, Lynn Nottage is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Her recent work includes “Floyd’s” and the musical adaptation of “The Secret Life of Bees.” Nottage’s plays include, “Sweat,” “Mlima's Tale,” “By the Way,” “Meet Vera Stark,” “Ruined,” “Intimate Apparel,” “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,” “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” and “POOF!” She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation at the Franklin Street, Reading Railroad Station in Reading, PA. She was a writer and producer on the first season of Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee. Nottage is an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, Steinberg "Mimi" Distinguished Playwright Award and the Doris Duke Artists Award, among others. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Among her upcoming projects are an opera adaptation of “Intimate Apparel” and the musical “MJ,” featuring the music of Michael Jackson, to premiere on Broadway.