Lynn Nottage

Person · Open Library

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1985-02-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

6

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She was the first (and remains the only) woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and was included in Time magazine's 2019 l

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,517x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,392x

3. Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks

   · 2001 · cited 13,415x

4. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,374x

5. The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence: a revision of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire

   · 1991 · cited 8,400x

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Quotes

• “We go in and try to be completely transparent with them: I am not a journalist, I’m a playwright, and I’m developing a piece that is creative and not going to be solely based on their lives but inspired by conversations that we have.”
• “The thing is, I can’t control that built-in bias because it’s going to exist. What I can do is reflect the world through my very unique prism and perhaps people will be able to relate. I can’t control how it’s received, nor do I want to control how it’s perceived. What I want is for people to go into the theatre and in some way their perception is shifted, so that if they do enter with their biases, perhaps they won’t leave with them.”
• “My motto when I was writing this was ‘replace judgment with curiosity’.”
• “It’s much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you’re representing people in a truthful way. These characters are purely fiction—they’re inspired by people I met—which I think gave me a certain amount of leeway that I wouldn’t have had otherwise were it a verbatim piece.”

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