“My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.”

American playwright

Lynn Nottage is an American playwright known for writing about working-class lives, especially Black experience. She is the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. She received the prize in 2009 for Ruined and again in 2017 for Sweat. Her plays often turn to labor, hardship, and the social realities facing ordinary people.