“Ruined” Playwright Wins Pulitzer

By Steven Psyllos Apr 21, 2009

Nottage with images of real-life victims from Congo.

Brooklyn playwright Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer for her play, Ruined, yesterday. This is only the second time that an African-American woman won the prize for drama, the first being Suzan-Lori Parks for TopDog/Underdog, which starred Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright in 2001. The prize comes with an $10,000 award.

Ruined is a story of young women who have been raped and brutalized in the Congo’s decade-long civil war. The play premiered last year at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and traveled to the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage I, where its run has been extended for a third time to through May 10.

The play stars Phylicia Rashad’s daughter, newcomer Condola Rashad, as Sophie, a rape victim whose genitals have been mutilated. Read more about the star-on-the-rise here.

TAGS: condola rashad, pulitizer prize, ruined

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